The keyboard, revisited
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Remember the other day I did a post about my two defective iClever keyboards, money I'll never get back?Well, today I'm trying something stupidly simple, that in retrospect is almost obvious -- not quite, but almost.Grabbed my USB to Go adapter, plugged in a small but conventional USB wired keyboard, and plugged the adapter into my Fire tablet -- and Bob's yer uncle. Works as well as can be expected. No touchpad on this particular keyboard, but I only used the touchpad on the iClever keyboards when doing the try-the-touchpad thing.Keyboard's too damn big and the cable's too damn long to be convenient, but it does work just fine for touch typing, which is important to my aging former-secretary ass. Downside, the Fire has exactly one USB port, so if the keyboard is plugged in, the power brick isn't. So typing is inherently time-limited by the Fire battery.I should take a picture of this setup, if I can figure out which camera to use. I'm not entirely sure how many I have at this point.Mahalo.
Griz