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Sandy McMurray
reviews toys, games, gadgets, and media
for SEVEN magazine.

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About Sandy

Sandy has been writing about tech stuff in plain language since 1994.

He knows why your computer does that weird thing, and how to stop it.

Sandy is passionate about his faith, his family, strong coffee, apple pie, potatoes (all kinds), and that cool thing Apple announced recently.




A surprise and delight moment 

Gary Ng explains how Apple worked around a potential problem with the size of the space bar on the iPhone 4S on-screen keyboard.

When you’re typing quickly, the light grey dictate key becomes the space bar. If you pause or hesitate your speed ever so slightly, magically, it morphs back to the dictate key again. Brilliant.

I love his description of this discovery as “a classic Apple ‘surprise and delight’ moment”. That’s exactly right.