Keyboard Troubles

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Isolation tape to the rescue

Did I mention, the iMac is a big heap of cheap plastic? Well I should have by now. Another fine example would be the keyboard. It's rather smallish, has some weird screws (two of one size, two of another) which are hard to unscrew (too much pressure) without damaging them.

And the clamps, which are on the bottom of the keyboard, only need to be looked at evilish enough: they'll break all by themselves.

But: I've fixed that all by myself! I've unscrewed that sucker, put the isolation back in place, screwed it back in place and secured the whole thing with loads of isolation tape.

It's not looking that bad and sure cheaper than the Apple Pro Keyboard Apple tries to sell.

Real mice for real men

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I don't know which is the most annoying thing of my iMac. The mouse sure takes a place amongst the top. It's so annoying in fact, I didn't even bother to link it to a higher resolution image, it would be a waste of bandwith.

The mouse is all the cheap iMac design, sized down all the way. It's round, there's no way in holding it in a comfortable way. It's small, made for children's hands. And it's ugly.

But, I hear you say: You can connect any mouse you like! You're not limited to one single button, I in fact have a mouse with ten buttons connected to my Mac! Yes, I'd reply. If you wouldn't replace your iMac mouse with something more useful, your hands would hurt pretty soon. So it should better be possible, shouldn't it.