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Wow, I found a useless iPad feature

rworne

rworne

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The iPad's virtual keyboard has a neat feature: bring up the keyboard and look closely at the "F" and "J" keys. Yes, they have two raised ridges for touch typists!
 
Maybe in preparation for the feedback screens?

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rworne said:
The iPad's virtual keyboard has a neat feature: bring up the keyboard and look closely at the "F" and "J" keys. Yes, they have two raised ridges for touch typists!
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Haha i know! I saw that the other night and was like WTF?
 
Noticed this a while back but never really gave it much thought. I just assumed they were trying to make it look as much like a Mac keyboard as possible.
 
Holy smokes, Apple pays way too much attention to detail to have this be simply because of aesthetics
 
I have noticed these but never gave a thought to why they are there. Probably to help you believe its a real keyboard. There must be a reason or Apple is addicted to attention to detail.
 
Too funny. It must be some attempt to make touch typists "look" at home even if they don't "feel" at home. :D
 
I wouldn't say it's useless. When I touch type I align my hands with those ridgets visually.
 
Yeah, that might've been doing a little much. One guy must have been like, hey man......just put those in there. See if anyone notices. Haha, yeah we notice.
 
JonMPLS said:
You can't feel those???
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Perhaps you could, though.

I noticed that when sounds are playing, especially with low-frequency components, you can actually feel the sensation of "ridges" on the iPad's screen as you swipe it.

(It wasn't immediately clear to me that the sound was doing this. I had to ponder a bit about why I was feeling ridges on the screen as I swiped it...)

Since the iPad has stereo speakers, it might be possible to use beat frequencies and pulses of audio to create the sensation of a raised area in a specific area of the screen.

Perhaps this was somebody's pet project that never quite made it to release, but the graphics did.
 
It's bad enough when useful topics are repeated here each time someone buys an ipad rather than searching the forum first. But now there are repeats of useless details that were discussed some weeks ago. Come on guys and gals, have a search around before choking up the forum. :(
 
hsotnicam8002 said:
It's bad enough when useful topics are repeated here each time someone buys an ipad rather than searching the forum first. But now there are repeats of useless details that were discussed some weeks ago. Come on guys and gals, have a search around before choking up the forum. :(
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I know....the nerve of this guy. You should search ANYTIME you post on ANY reason you post. Matter of fact, just take away the forum format altogether and just make it a search engine on things that were already posted. And then we could start another discussion forum to talk about that great search engine on iPads over at Macrumors :rolleyes:

Better yet, lighten up bro, life's not that bad. ;)
 
Re: Wow, I found a useless iPad feature

DougFNJ said:
I know....the nerve of this guy. You should search ANYTIME you post on ANY reason you post. Matter of fact, just take away the forum format altogether and just make it a search engine on things that were already posted. And then we could start another discussion forum to talk about that great search engine on iPads over at Macrumors :rolleyes:

Better yet, lighten up bro, life's not that bad. ;)
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Couldn't agree more! Like many of us I am on numerous online forums - I don't post much here. why?

see above! Love the info folks, but for goodness sakes would you all lighten up and drop the holier than thou crap? Wow!!!
 
jtara said:
Perhaps you could, though.

I noticed that when sounds are playing, especially with low-frequency components, you can actually feel the sensation of "ridges" on the iPad's screen as you swipe it.

(It wasn't immediately clear to me that the sound was doing this. I had to ponder a bit about why I was feeling ridges on the screen as I swiped it...)

Since the iPad has stereo speakers, it might be possible to use beat frequencies and pulses of audio to create the sensation of a raised area in a specific area of the screen.

Perhaps this was somebody's pet project that never quite made it to release, but the graphics did.
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Step away from the crack pipe! :rolleyes:
 
rworne said:
The iPad's virtual keyboard has a neat feature: bring up the keyboard and look closely at the "F" and "J" keys. Yes, they have two raised ridges for touch typists!
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Yes but speaking as someone who does touch type they are of absolutely no use!!
 
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