{"id":402,"date":"2007-03-15T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T17:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/03\/15\/another-unnecessary-solution\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T07:24:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T15:24:28","slug":"another-unnecessary-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/03\/15\/another-unnecessary-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Another unnecessary solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A fool and his money are easily parted<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No sooner do I go on about <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/03\/09\/solutions-looking-for-problems\/ target=_blank>Solutions looking for Problems<\/a> than along comes this dusie (that&#8217;s short for Duesenberg, if you really care) from Logitech, a company which actually makes some fairly decent peripherals for iPods and the like:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Aperture_keyboard.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s none other than the Logitech Aperture Keyboard, which gets my first annual SLOP (<b>S<\/b>olution <b>Lo<\/b>oking for a <b>P<\/b>roblem) award.  As you will see, the pristine clarity of Apple&#8217;s keyboard has been obliterated with what can only be droppings from a passing bird, purportedly in the interest of helping you remember which key does what in Aperture.<\/p>\n<p>Now, given that the hot keys I use for Aperture are limited to a handful &#8211; Z for Zoom, H for HUD, ~ for the Loupe being the dominant ones &#8211; you expect me to buy this excresence because I struggle remembering <i>three keys<\/i>?  Probably ideal for all those US public school graduates who never got to the Reading part of the syllabus (you know them &#8211; they are the ones with risk free government jobs and inflation-weighted pensions which we all pay for), preferring instead to listen to their iPods.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, what could you do with $99?  How about driving 1,000 miles in search of that great picture instead?  Put it towards a proper tripod so that you can finally see what your lens can do?  Make a few big prints for friends?<\/p>\n<p>Nah.  Get that keyboard instead.  Guaranteed to make you a better photographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fool and his money are easily parted No sooner do I go on about Solutions looking for Problems than along comes this dusie (that&#8217;s short for Duesenberg, if you really care) from Logitech, a company which actually makes some fairly decent peripherals for iPods and the like: Yes, it&#8217;s none other than the Logitech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/03\/15\/another-unnecessary-solution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another unnecessary solution<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}