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Giving mechanical keyboards a try.

After a couple of months, I decided to get a mechanical keyboard  for my home office. The laptop I use at home for media consumption, and some light Internet browsing, has given me some trouble with keys getting stuck since new, so I got an entry level wireless mechanical keyboard to see if all the hype I've heard about them is something I could get into. So, I decided to go with a Machenike K500-B51W  with brown switches. It is a 60% keyboard, and although for a keyboard for a more professional use I'd rather use bigger one with a number pad, for the intended use I've of it has been proven to be quite a nice fit. The main reasons I choose the K500-B51W are its size, that Machenike has proven to me that it makes good products with the L16A laptop I use as my daily driver, that is relatively cheap, and that it is a wireless keyboard. My first impressions of it, are pretty good. I still need to get used on to it, but so far it has been quite a great experience. To be honest,...

Thunderbird email client arrives on Android as a beta tester app.

I've been an avid user of Mozilla Thunderbird email client on my laptops, for about a decade now. Specially after I started using several emails , which make managing them through a webmail  impractical. A few years ago I started to check my emails though my smartphone more often, and the email apps I settled on while usable didn't actually measured with I came to expect using Thunderbird. I knew that team behind Thunderbird was on their way to create an app for iOS and Android, but it was a work on progress. Until this week, when the app was release as a beta for testers on the Play Store . After digging around a bit, I found that it was stable enough to give a try. So far, it has been quite a great app for me. It just works, while there are some features missing. The main one I'm looking forward, is being able to sync it with my desktop app. I do that with Firefox , and find it useful for my user case. Being able to both apps seamlessly is quite useful for me, since I c...