helen blog » games http://blog.helenyhou.com food, web, wordpress, collaborative piano, thoughts, links, etc. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:51:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Magic Trackpad?! http://blog.helenyhou.com/2010/07/magic-trackpad/ http://blog.helenyhou.com/2010/07/magic-trackpad/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:43:00 +0000 Helen http://blog.helenyhou.com/?p=496 Anybody who’s been subjected to me talking about my computer setup/injury prevention/productivity obsession knows that I love using a trackball* the vast majority of the time. So far the only exception I can think of is Minesweeper, but now that I’ve completely switched over to a Mac slash Apple products in general, this awesome clone of Minesweeper on the iPhone quells my bomb-defusing addiction.

ANYWAY, for me, today’s Apple announcement about the Magic Trackpad boils down to this:

magic trackpad plus pogo sketch

(In case you’re not into input devices, that second item is a Pogo Sketch, which, along with their Inklet software, can turn trackpads into pressure-sensitive tablets. And yes, of course it comes in orange. And yes, I have a Wacom tablet, but I got it before they came out with the Touch line. Sigh.)

* The Kensington Slimblade FINALLY has programmable buttons. I was happy with it even without, but now that it can do more than just zoom/pan and control music, I wholeheartedly recommend it as a badass and very sexy trackball. I just need a wrist pad. And to stop obsessively cleaning it whenever I am meditating on something at work.

** I should probably also mention that those icons in my quick graphic up there are from a set called BlackStroke.

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