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The post An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard appeared first on BardTech . Yes I am very late to this. But I am also very annoyed so I am adding my voice to the now sustained chorus of complaints about Apple’s redesigned Mac keyboard: How very much it sucks. Truly, madly, deeply. This is the keyboard that Apple “completely redesigned” in 2015, in its quest for size zero hardware, switching from a scissor mechanism for the keys to what it described then as the “new Apple-designed butterfly mechanism” — touting this as 40% thinner and 4x more stable. Reader, there is nothing remotely beautiful and butterfly-esque about the experience of depressing these keys. Scattershot staccato clattering, as your fingers are simultaneously sucked in and involuntarily hammer out a grapeshot of key strikes, is what actually happens. It’s brutalist and unforgiving. Most egregiously it’s not reliably functional. The redesigned mechanism has resulted in keys that not only feel different when ...

The post Lenovo’s Yoga Book C930 swaps the keyboard for an E Ink display appeared first on BardTech . Lenovo’s going all-in on IFA this year. The company announced a new Chromebook, a Snapdragon powered Windows laptop and some smart home devices, among others. The most compelling bit from the bunch, however, has to be the Yoga Book C930. The laptop follows in the footsteps of the Yoga Book A12 , the convertible that was all the rage at IFA back in 2016. That device swapped the standard keyboard for a touchscreen, so the surface could double as a drawing pad. It wasn’t particularly conducive for typing, but it certainly was innovative. The C930 takes things even further, swapping the Halo keyboard for E Ink. It’s an interesting application for the technology, which has largely been relegated to the world of e-readers. The secondary display servce the same function as on the A12, doing triple duty as a keyboard, notepad and e-reader. That functionality certainly makes the device a...

The post 25 Helpful Kodi Keyboard Shortcuts You Need to Know appeared first on BardTech . Kodi isn’t particularly mouse friendly. It’s perhaps understandable: given the app’s Xbox background, there was no need to code support for mice in its early days. Today, the app is widely used on PCs, and mouse input feels a bit clunky and imprecise. But you don’t need to use the mouse at all when you are using Kodi. You can use keyboard shortcuts instead. In fact, due to the mouse input’s shortcomings, it’s arguably the preferred way to navigate around the app. Here are some Kodi shortcuts you really need to know. We’ve divided the shortcuts into three categories for easy browsing. Playback Shortcuts on Kodi P: Play S: Stop Space: Pause/Play F: Fast-forward R: Rewind Left Arrow: Skip forward 30 seconds Right Arrow: Skip back 30 seconds T: Toggle subtitles on/off +/-: Volume up/down F8: Mute I: See information about the playing video A: Delay out-of-sync audio Z: ...