I have Cooler Master Storm Rapid I mechanical backlit keyboard. It's pretty compact as it doesn't have numerical keyboard. It has nice light effects as it pretty configurable. I am not really impressed with this keyboard - I make a lot typing mistakes, it's very sensitive. For comparison, I can type faster and with fewer typing mistakes on Lenovo e325 laptop keyboard. It costs about 100euro in my country.
I don't have experience with other mechanical keyboards, so i would appreciate if someone can compare it to other mechanical keyboards.
Sad to hear you don't like the feel of that one, I've been considering getting one for a while.
Of course, the fact that its on-board ARM processor can be hacked to run Snake on the backlight LEDs has no impact on my choice (see http://spritesmods.com/?art=rapidisnake). It's fun to contemplate the complexity of something as "simple" as a keyboard when things like these become possible.
I also have this keyboard. I find it to be really solidly built and the lighting effects are a nice touch, but would agree that it doesn't seem to make my typing any better then using the keyboard on my macbook pro. FWIW, I originally got the keyboard with brown switches but then sent it back for blue switches and that seemed to make a big different in how it felt. What type of switches did you get?
good news. I hope that new sync feature will work seamlessly and efficiently - I disabled sync about a year ago because browser became sluggish with large number of bookmarks.
but you could buy software once and use it for several years, skipping a few versions before upgrade. There are lots of users that don't need latest bells and whistles.
I agree. Inkscape and Gimp do everything I need them to do. The last time I hit a limitation was when I needed Inkscape to create a multi-page document. But that was more than a year ago and I managed without that function.
I use this tool extensively and it's awesome: http://sprightlysoft.com/s3sync/ It has the same name. Check out -TransferThreads parameter for paralel uploads/downloads (see Documentation link). I use it for syncing dozens of buckets each containing tens of thousands of small files and it works without a glitch.
This might be workable for some people, I tried DDG and results aren't on the same level. DDG is getting better every day, until then my temporary solution is using "Google proxy" (anonymised Google search) like https://startpage.com/.
I have lots of websites hosted on S3 - you can have up to 100 buckets per account and every bucket can be a website. I use different setup - s3sync for syncing and AutoIt script for static blog generation (~100 lines of code).
it's useful to have extension if you want to disable it and temporarily see ads; also it's easy to whitelist ads on particular sites/pages - there are non intrusive and useful ads.
