{"id":99470,"date":"2015-03-15T12:33:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T12:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=99470"},"modified":"2015-03-15T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T12:33:22","slug":"emoji-keyboard-puts-the-power-of-mobile-shorthand-on-desktops-and-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=99470","title":{"rendered":"Emoji Keyboard puts the power of mobile shorthand on desktops and laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone can find success crowdfunding potato salad on Kickstarter, why not something equally unnecessary but even more fun \u2014 like an emoji keyboard?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the folks at Oakland, California-based Disk Cactus, a self-described &#8220;art and technology&#8221; studio, developed to give us all a simple way to emojify messages.<\/p>\n<p>The product itself is not a keyboard, but an overlay for existing Mac keyboards (standard MacBooks and Apple wireless keyboards).<\/p>\n<p>It turns a pedestrian keyboard into a colorful tool of whimsy, which users can automatically launch by simply pressing the caps-lock key (this transforms into an &#8220;emoji&#8221; key after Disk Cactus&#8217; software is downloaded). Hitting the key gives users access to five different of sets characters, which offer 150 emoji in total.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some recipients of your emoji missives will wonder why you&#8217;re bringing the mobile shorthand into the world of desktops and laptops; but that momentary confusion will likely be softened by the joy of looking at smiley faces and poop icons.<\/p>\n<p>Disk Cactus&#8217; campaign offers the keyboard overlay and software for $10, which, if you chip in, may help them get to their $20,000 goal (at the time of this writing, its current tally is $4,138 with 26 days to go).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone can find success crowdfunding potato salad on Kickstarter, why not something equally unnecessary but even more fun \u2014 like an emoji keyboard? That&#8217;s what the folks at Oakland, California-based Disk Cactus, a self-described &#8220;art and technology&#8221; studio, developed to give us all a simple way to emojify messages. The product itself is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":99471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-99470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}