Fix “Soft” Keys on your Apple Aluminium Keyboard
Are you a 99.9% happy Apple Keyboard user? Chances are, the thing lost that other .1% because sometimes the keys just aren’t as responsive as you’d like them to be. Well, there’s an easy fix. Just grab your toolbox and follow me!
First, you’ll need to grab a few things. The first is a guitar pick. You can get them at a music store for about 75 cents, a medium gauge will be best for this job. If you don’t have a guitar pick, a credit card or a thin nail file will work as well.
Be especially careful with the spacebar key, don’t jerk right in the middle, you’ll snap it. Remeber to check which way the scissors under the key are going before prying away!
Once you get under the offending key, this is what you should see:
Now for the fix. What you’re going to need, is a regular sheet of paper, some scissors and some tape. For the tape, I’ve found that the clear “Scotch Tape” as our American Friends would call it works best. Take your scissors, and cut a narrow strip out of the paper - about 7 millimetres wide and the length of your thumb. Take it and fold it like you did in kindergarten. Back and forth until you have a small square shape. Now get your tape, and cut a 1 Centimetre by 1 Centimetre piece of tape. Attach it to your bit of paper, with even amounts of excess on all sides.
This is what my finished key looked like:
Watch the video for more in depth information!
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Ever wished you could view YouTube videos in the way that the creator saw them when he/she completed them?
Well, there’s an easy way!
Just download This Javascript, (which comes in a .txt file because it’s so long) and make a new bookmark in a browser like Firefox or Safari. (This trick doesn’t work with some browsers) Call your bookmark YouTube HD or something like that, just to remind you what it actually does. In the URL or location field, open up that .txt file you just downloaded and select all the text, then copy and paste it to the location field. Save the new bookmark and go to any YouTube video. Watch the video, then click the bookmark and watch the video again. The script basically shows you the original video, as it was uploaded. The video you normally see on YouTube is re-endoded flash video, which is very low quality.
This trick only works with some browsers, and it consumes more bandwidth than the normal videos. Still, don’t you think it’s worth it if you can actually read the text on screencasts or see someone’s face?