{"id":424,"date":"2013-02-13T21:14:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T02:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2013-03-11T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:30:05","slug":"wireless-keyboard-and-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wireless-keyboard-and-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Keyboard and Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I needed to provide a recommendation on a Wireless Keyboard and Mouse combination.\u00a0 Years ago I was in love with the Focus brand of keyboards, their model 2001 was a great fairly priced keyboard.\u00a0 Well that is if you liked the IBM Selectric style keyboard, long travel with clicks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have transitioned to the softer keyboards, but like a keyboard that makes contact <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/danvanfleet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image4.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/danvanfleet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image_thumb4.png?resize=141%2C113\" width=\"141\" height=\"113\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>before the key gets the whole way down.\u00a0\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003VANO7C\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B003VANO7C&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=danvanfleetco-20&quot;&gt;Logitech Wireless Combo Mk520 With Keyboard and Laser Mouse (920-002553)\" target=\"_blank\">Logitech Wireless Mk520<\/a> is my current recommendation for a basic wireless keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/danvanfleet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image5.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/danvanfleet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/image_thumb5.png?resize=146%2C102\" width=\"146\" height=\"102\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>For a higher end keyboard, I personally use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0036E8V08\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0036E8V08&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=danvanfleetco-20&quot;&gt;Logitech MK710 Wireless Desktop Mouse and Keyboard Combo (920-002416)\" target=\"_blank\">Logitech MK710<\/a> Wireless Desktop Mouse and Keyboard. It includes a nice LCD display for Number and Caps lock, which I miss on most keyboards.\u00a0 The function keys are programmable, and it even includes a calculator button with brings the Windows Calculator up, ready for use.\u00a0 The Focus 5001 Keyboard used to have a built in calculator, it was fantastic.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;nou=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=danvanfleetco-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B003VANO7C\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"2\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px; margin-left: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;nou=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=danvanfleetco-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B0036E8V08\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"2\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"25\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>One of the fine features of both of these keyboards is the Logitech Unifying receiver. This thing is great, plug it in and it works. Move it from computer to computer and it works. Change the batteries, and it works.\u00a0 There is no need to press the connect button and wonder, the Logitech Unifying receiver just works, it&#8217;s awesome!<\/p>\n<p>On my desk is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0036E8V08\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0036E8V08&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=danvanfleetco-20&quot;&gt;Logitech MK710 Wireless Desktop Mouse and Keyboard Combo (920-002416)\" target=\"_blank\">MK710<\/a>, and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003VANO7C\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B003VANO7C&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=danvanfleetco-20&quot;&gt;Logitech Wireless Combo Mk520 With Keyboard and Laser Mouse (920-002553)\" target=\"_blank\">MK520<\/a>.\u00a0 Even though it&#8217;s bigger, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0036E8V08\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0036E8V08&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=danvanfleetco-20&quot;&gt;Logitech MK710 Wireless Desktop Mouse and Keyboard Combo (920-002416)\" target=\"_blank\">MK710<\/a> usually goes on the road with me.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0036E8V08\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0036E8V08&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=danvanfleetco-20&quot;&gt;Logitech MK710 Wireless Desktop Mouse and Keyboard Combo (920-002416)\" target=\"_blank\">MK710<\/a> comes with a much nicer mouse, it has back buttons, and you can turn off the scroll clicker, which is great for rapidly scrolling through long documents.\u00a0 It&#8217;s much more like flipping through a book than a standard scroll. The wheel continues to move when it&#8217;s scrolled fast, then with a tap, the document halt right where needed, it&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I needed to provide a recommendation on a Wireless Keyboard and Mouse combination.\u00a0 Years ago I was in love with the Focus brand of keyboards, their model 2001 was a great fairly priced keyboard.\u00a0 Well that is if you liked the IBM Selectric style keyboard, long travel with clicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,26],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommend","tag-hardware","tag-recommend-2","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wyVb-6Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danvanfleet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}