A plethora of reviews are out for the iPad mini, and many more will trickle into the blogosphere in the coming days. The gist of these reviews is about what everyone expected: it’s too bad the iPad mini doesn’t have a retina display, but most people likely won’t care because it’s awesome all the same. [...]
The Incase Origami Workstation was the first iPad stand I stood behind, offering a fairly convenient method to transport my Apple Bluetooth Keyboard (ABK), as well as orient the iPad in either landscape or portrait mode. It’s not the perfect solution, but it’s about the best I’ve yet come across.1 Rene Ritchie at iMore recently [...]
The first physical keyboard we used with the iPad was an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard (ABK), which we still have on stand-by for when we need to travel light. Most of our physical keyboard use on the iPad today is with the HHKB Pro 2, but before we switched to a quasi-mechanical capacitive switch keyboard, we [...]
We finally received our Happy Hacking Keyboard (HHKB) Pro 2 that we ordered for our iPad. The idea was to relegate our Apple Wireless Keyboard to only those trips where we need extreme portability and still require a keyboard. The rest of the time, we’d use the HHKB because of its superior tactile feel. As [...]
While people love to talk about how intuitive touch is as an interface method, the cold reality is that for certain applications, legacy input formats still reign supreme. For example, for writing, there is no unseating the keyboard in one format or another, as writing by hand is slow and cumbersome for longform input. 1 [...]