By default, on a Mac, the initial delay is 500ms, and the key repeat rate 1000ms.
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My suggestion is to make them both as short as possible for testing.
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First, it’s good to test whether your keystrokes behave well when repeated. Occasionally you might want your interface to suppress repeating, or do something special if the key is held longer.
Second, it’s a good test not just of repeating, but just the user pressing keys really fast.
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On the new keyboards, the tab, caps lock, shift, return, and delete keycaps are labeled with glyphs rather than edge text. On the full-size models with a numeric keypad, the change goes further, with the home, page up, page down, end, clear, and enter keys also swapping their text labels for symbols.
Four models have been updated: the Magic Keyboard, the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, and the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad in both white keys and black keys.
Why, why, WHY won’t they fix the arrow keys? I use the version without numpad (for RSI reasons) and the L/R keys are full height, with half-height up/down keys. This is TERRIBLE and it causes me problems on a daily basis.
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They fixed this problem with the laptops years ago. But refresh after refresh, they refuse to fix it with the external. WHY?
The left and right arrow keys should be half-height when there’s no numeric keypad, so that you can find them by feeling for the inverted T.
My impression is that they’re limited by the self-imposed problem of making the corners so rounded that they can no longer fit a half-height right arrow key.
This is literally the only reason I haven’t bought one! Just return to the previous radius, dammit.
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Apple today released a new version of its Polishing Cloth on its online store. In the U.S., pricing is now set at $9, down from $19 for the previous version of the cloth.
Starry Horizon (via Hartley Charlton):
new polishing cloth and comparison with the old one, dimensions are pretty much the same. a lot less stiff, it’s more like the nanotexture or apple vision pro one.
In a brilliant bit of marketing spin, Apple distracts from Mac price hikes with a new $9 polishing cloth.
My favorite feature of this product is the store’s “compatibility” matrix that gets updated with every new Mac/iPhone release.
Curiously, the products Apple released alongside the new cloth aren’t compatible with it — namely, because they don’t have screens.
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