![]() It is documented that Hansen Writing Balls could be found in operation up until 1909 in many offices and businesses in England and Europe. The half-sphere shape of the ball is unlike any other typing device before or after it, and regardless of visual appeal, The Hansen Writing Ball gained quite a bit of attention in Europe and England as a fully functional typing device. ![]() Moving across the globe to Denmark just a few years later, The Hansen Writing Ball was invented by Reverend Rasmus Malling-Hansen, in 1865. Brazilians argue that his invention should be credited as the First Typewriter. It was completely constructed of household materials which makes it particularly interesting and impressive. Father Azevado’s typewriter is arguably the first “typewriter” as the mechanism is the most similar to the commercial models that followed its inception. The only ones worth mentioning, for the sake of being extraordinary, were Father Francisco Jaâo de Azevado’s “homemade” typewriter made from wood and knives in Brasil (1861), and Denmark’s Hansen Writing Ball (1865), both pictured below. None of these devices gained much public interest or commercial success.įrom 1829 up until 1870 many other typing devices were patented along with the ones mentioned above, and like the previous devices, none of them went into commercial production or mainstream use. ![]() A later model of the typowriter, created by John Jones in 1852 is pictured below. The typowriter was also created with the intended use for the blind. In 1829 William Austin Burt also created a writing mechanism, a “Typowriter” that instead of keys, used dials to print characters, making this process slower than handwriting to produce words on a page, but it was a way to print legible uniform text. Pellegrino’s invention of the carbon copy has made a lasting impact on the modern office (carbon copies are still regularly used on triplicate forms, phone messages and memo pads, sales receipts, etc.). His machine was intended to allow the blind to “write.” With Pellegrino Turri’s typing device, also came the first Carbon Copy. Fast forward to 1808, another typing machine was patented to Pellegrino Turri in Italy. Though there is no evidence that the machine was constructed, or sold, all we know is that this typing device was intended to prepare legal documents in a manner that was neat, legible, and in a standardized format. In 1714, the first patent for a typing machine was issued in London, England to Henry Mill. Technically the first documented typing devices predate the Remington’s Sholes & Glidden typewriter, though none of them were manufactured for commercial use. Image source: from the Early Office Museum Remington’s First Sholes & Glidden Type-Writer 1867 So how did we get to where we are now, in the high-tech age of computers and plastics? To move forward, it’s important to first move backward in time and see how these first commercially successful type-writers came to be. The first Remington typewriters, created by Sholes, Glidden, and Soule even came with a foot pedal (like a sewing machine) to control carriage returns. What did the first typing machines look like? The first manufactured typewriters resembled sewing machines more than what most people imagine when they think of a “typewriter.” Remington, who manufactured the first typewriters, was also manufacturing sewing machines at the time, leading to this initial design atheistic. To begin the exploration of the first keyboards, we must first examine the origins of typing and the first typing devices. Chapter Three: Design – Computer Keyboard LayoutsĬhapter One: Design – The Evolution of the Typewriter.Chapter Two: Design – The Development of the Computer Keyboard.Chapter One: Design – The Evolution of the Typewriter.This paper will explore the history of typing, detailing the innovations across time that have accumulated into the definition of today’s standard for the ultimate typing experience. The keyboard is the number one computer interface used around the world and an integral object for many of us that most people take for granted. The type-writer has changed shape dramatically over the years, eventually becoming electronic- then practically obsolete as we moved into the age of computers and the birth of the keyboard. Since then, we have seen several updates in design, layout, technology, and function that are more efficient and user-friendly. These machines featured “blind typing” technology, where characters were printed on upside-down pages that remained unseen until completion. Keyboards and typing technology have come a long way over the past couple of centuries. The first typing devices were designed and patented in the 1700s while the first manufactured typing devices came about in the 1870s.
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![]() To start, you should the content settings in Chrome and make sure websites are allowed to load images on your computer. So, let’s take a look at what you can do when you see the broken picture icon on websites. Whether Chrome is failing to load images due to a misconfigured setting or a shoddy browser extension, this post covers all the possible solutions for the Chrome not loading images issue. And if images are not loading in Chrome, you won’t get the full experience of viewing a website. However, there are times when your favorite browser - Google Chrome - fails to load them up and ends up showing a broken image icon instead. When used correctly, they often deliver contextual messages in the blink of an eye. You can do that by pressing H while running w3m.Images play a significant role on any website. W3m doesn’t use the same keyboard shortcuts as other command line browsers, so get ready to learn some new ones. The browser doesn’t do JavaScript, though.Īs far as the important job of rendering web pages, w3m does a better job than Links2 or ELinks even with complex pages. Like ELinks2, w3m lets you view images on a page using an external program. You can navigate web pages using a mouse, and the browser will render tables and even accept cookies. While it might not have as many features as the other browsers I discuss in this post, w3m gets the job done. ![]() When I first fired up w3m, it reminded me of a cross between the classic text-based browser Lynx and the UNIX/Linux text viewer more. ELinks opens the image with an application like ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick. Either click the placeholder for the image or highlight it and press v on your keyboard. Press ESC on your keyboard display a set of menus that let you enter and save URLs, add bookmarks, set up the browser, and more.ĮLinks lacks a graphical mode, but it does have a nifty feature that lets you view images on a web page. One feature that makes ELinks stand out from other command line browsers is its menu system. While it supports using a mouse to follow hyperlinks, ELinks lacks support for Javascript. And like Links2, ELinks can display tables and frames. Like Links2, ELinks is a fork of the Links browser. You can also use your mouse to follow hyperlinks whether you’re in text or graphical mode. The browser can display frames and tables, and supports basic JavaScript. That’s not the only trick that Links2 can do. When you start it by typing links2 at the command line and go to a website, the result is something like this:īut when you run links2 -g then visit a site, the result is something like this: It’s a lot like its predecessor in that it gives you the option to run either in text-only mode or graphical mode. Links2 bills itself as the graphical version of the venerable Links. Let’s take a look at three browsers for the command line. They’re niche, but still get the job done. Web browsers that run in a terminal window are alive and kicking. You’d think that browsing the web at the command line would have gone the way of the tag. Jump forward to these days of web browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and a few others. Some of use visited web pages using command-line, text-only browsers like the venerable Lynx. A time when most of us went online using low-powered PCs or dumb terminals, often over slow dial-up connections. Let’s take a trip back in time to the early, simpler days of the web. ( Note: This post was first published, in a slightly different form, at and appears here via a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.) 3 Web Browsers for the Linux Command Line Open Source Musingsģ Web Browsers for the Linux Command Line Basic revenue reports: See your earning and your top-performing services and clients.Unlimited devices: Everything in Goldie instantly syncs across all your devices - phones, tablets, or computers.Sync with Apple and Google Calendars: It’s now easy to keep track of all your personal and business appointments in one place.Your appointment scheduler has never been more accessible. Calendar planner: Effortlessly flip through your appointment calendar with the Day, Three Day, Week, Month, and Mini Month views.Or send mass texts to your clients with a promotion! Marketing messages: Send rebooking reminders to clients you haven’t seen in a while.Service offerings: Define your services by setting the price and duration, or personalize them with colors. ![]() Impress and inform potential clients with a professional online presence. Online booking system: Accept client bookings 24/7, based on your schedule, via your own personal website.Client management: Easily search for clients to view their history, notes, or their upcoming appointments. ![]()
![]() The back is made of a blue brushed aluminum and has an orange racing stripe on the side, the Onyx logo is the same color. The screen made of glass and it is flush with the bezel. The Note Air features a 10.3 inch E INK Carta HD Display with a resolution of 1872×1404 and 227 PPI. There is also a slew of new pen/pencil types to shade, highlight and really flex your inner artist. One of the big improvements that Onyx to the software is including layers, a similar system to Remarkable. Android 10 is the major selling point and you can also run two apps at the same time, you download apps from Google Play. It features an all new asymmetrical design and has a very fast Snapdragon processor and tons of storage. Well, I hope you are right, for the sake of anyone who will buy the device.The Onyx Boox Note Air is one of the most intriguing new digital note taking device of 2020. I am therefore fairly confident that this is a Boyle-manufactured, not an Onyx-manufactured, device. Yes, it is possible that it is re-branded Onyx (though it makes little sense to go to the trouble of rebranding it, and then still call it an "Onyx" on their website - further suggesting that this was a typo), but both the button-layout and the icons on them exactly match Boyue standard layout (and are dissimilar to O-B designs) - and Boyue fairly frequently do rebranded products. a different manufacturer).Īs can be seen from the forum pics, "inkBOOK" is the branding on the device - no "Onyx" or "Boox" to be seen. Certainly the layout of the specs do not seem to match those of the couple of known-Onyx products (M92 & i62HD) from that site that I compared it to - suggesting that they came from a different source (i.e. The webpage (minimally) refers to it as the "inkBOOK Onyx", however this may be a typo (the subordinate instructed to enter the device details into the website mistakenly thought that it was an Onyx). The name "inkBOOK" is, of course, Arta Tech's name for the device. Here's a link to its specs page on the Arta Tech (Polish) site: When I have more time, I'll have to explore a little more. I found an Onyx i65 that is in a blue case, but the specs are all wrong. Its measurements don't line up with any device from either that I can find just yet. One member thought this device was from Boyue, another said no, it's from Onyx. I tried translating that forum on my browser, and got a rough translation as a result. ![]() Has anybody come across anything similar? I must admit I find Boyue-buttons combined with slimmer chassis to be quite an attractive prospect (if they'd only combine it with a Kindle Voyage/Kobo Glow HD screen, it would be my perfect eReader, given current technologies). Polish Onyx-Boox retailer Arta Tech have just announced a new eReader, the inkBOOK, with specs similar to both the Onyx Boox C67ML and Boyue T62+, but dimensions slimmer than either those models (159×117×7 mm, versus 170.2 x 117.3 x 8.7mm and 160 x 123 x 8.5 mm, respectively).Ī picture on a forum reveals no Onyx-Boox branding, and styling distinctly reminiscent of Boyue designs. But then if Energy eReader Pro is exactly the same device as Boyue T62 then how come this one says max 32GB and that one says max 64GB? Does it mean that Energy Sistem included maybe a "software support" for 64GB SD cards and is capable of reading from NTFS (or other filesystems suitable for larger partitions disks)? ![]() As I was reading about this on the Internet, people said that the devices supporting max 32GB SDHC would detect 64GB SDXC cards but would only show them if they're formatted in FAT32 and the accessible size would be 32GB. The Boyue specs (on the box and on the sites that are selling the device) says this device supports max 32GB but the Energy Sistem specs sheet says the device supports max 64GB SDHC (Aren't 64GB+ ones called "SDXC"?!). Has anyone tried a 64GB MicroSD card on Boyue T62 or Energy Sistem eReader Pro (or the Boyue T61 / Icarus Illumina E653 even)? Does the device detect the whole 64GB and is it able to fully access it? ![]() But the people managing and creating them fall into the same old pitfalls, because software product development is not required to avoid them. And because they're complex, they each suffer from the standard problems that happen to software products (many books written about them). They're often complex and need to interoperate with one another, yet are built by separate teams. Three, it's genuinely hard to create groupware products that are both high-quality and useful. Then try to integrate different products, and you're really integrating different messes. Combine that with a lack of investment or cost-cutting, or some of the lead product people leaving, and the product gets worse. Buying one of these often leaves you with a huge mess on your hands. You may not know this, but startups tend to churn out some horrifying, janky code just to get themselves off the ground. Two, often these products are actually acquisitions of startups. If it were a startup flush with VC money, they could invest all they have into the product, but at an enterprise, it's often the opposite. It's common for a product to get a low level of investment that only meets the needs of adding new features without ensuring quality. That means they have a budget, timelines, expected revenue figures/costs. The products are often managed as independent business cases. One, often these products are made by companies where the products are not their primary revenue source. So while they "admit" to 4 objects, that's likely an under count because I wouldn't expect them to regularly check if all 100 trillion objects are accessible because of how long that would take. ![]() The saving grace is that most objects aren't accessed (maybe not ever again) & they detect & correct durability errors on access to ensure that accessed objects definitely aren't lost. With 11 9s of durability annually you'd expect to lose 100 objects a year. 2 years ago, S3 stored 100 trillion objects. My hunch is that the data is permanently lost.Īdditionally, S3 stores an enormous amount of data such that probabilistically they're bound to lose something to HW failure. That's a huge part of why S3 doesn't really do a whole lot of feature development (well that + it's hard to maintain a 20 yold codebase).Īlso, we're talking about Google Drive here which isn't GCS (Google's S3 competitor) but a higher-level product layered on top of GCS but with it's own book keeping / ACLs etc. However, such models do not (& really cannot) account for the existence of bugs or introduction of new ones. replication and/or erasure coding) and the durability guarantee is about HW failures only. What this means is that they model a "correctly functioning system" (i.e. Your OSes have more #UAC that Vista now, something you made fun of, they aren’t fluid anymore.S3 is designed for 11 9s of durability. if you’re listening, doubt it, get your *stuff* together already. I think it has surpassed Apple’s own now. You could use as an alternative some other thing self-hosted, like Nextcloud and leverage the excellent storage backplane your unit does have and, leverage the second-to-none customer support the app has. My biggest issue overall though, is that it constantly disconnects and you had to relink as if it was synced for the first time this could very easily cause corrupt data somewhere. If you do this so it stops bugging then it’d complain of the cert not matching the SLDN or whatever QuickConnnectID represents in the unit. It still keeps pushing to connect instead using QuickConnectID even using a certificate-validated-FQDN in the local network. I was dreaming to get this app before so if I could get rid of the resource-murdering Resilio Sync, but when I first downloaded a beta version of DSM that had it I felt it was exactly the same issues DS Cloud had/has with a plastic-ier look. Install Synology Drive on your Mac using the same steps for Windows OS above.
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