Showing posts with label keyboard shortcuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label keyboard shortcuts. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 December 2009

Oh…

Hmmm …

No, just hmmm …

Just as a general thing …

No, don’t worry, I’ll get round to it … !!

At any rate, I do know I’ve been intent on doing a quick post, in between, watching all sorts of let’s call it Festive Programming, on TV …

What CAN I tell you … ?

But I do know that Tim, bless him is going to be tottering over, tomorrow, but has managed to change browsers: from Firefox to Opera.

He’s been having some serious freezing problems, with Firefox 3.5, which meant switching. Hopefully, it’ll be something that Mozilla issues a fix for, fairly soon.

Although Tim has told me that he’s pleased with it, as Opera 10.10 seems to be running much more smoothly than Firefox 3.5.

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Ooh, just as a side issue, here, back in early November, about keyboard shortcuts?

I’ve just been emailing the shot’s I did for that post, but felt it worth me while to post them up again.

Just in case …

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Oh, now as a last thing …

Here’s what I was ‘Hmmm’ing about, earlier.

The Charts Show, on BBC Radio One has announced that this year’s UK Christmas No. 1, is Rage Against the Machine’s re-issued Killing in the Name.

I think congratulations are due them, and the husband and wife who — over on Facebook — organised the campaign to get the song to the top, ahead of this year’s X-Factor winner, Joe McElderry.

But, while I think it’s nice that Killing in the Name has got there, after having heard the song, I’ve got to admit, I’m not stunned with it.

I think I’d’ve gone for something a touch less … heavy.

Cie la vie.

Never any accounting for taste, is there?




Monday, 15 June 2009

Just a quickie

I’ve got to admit, I’ve just had Dr Paul — he of Dr Paul’s Quiz — ask me how I got a certain character to appear on Facebook. The ‘æ’ sign, to be precise.

I had to be honest, and tell him that it’s done by hitting Alt and ‘'’; not something that’d be available to him, under Windoze.

I also know I’ve a wide range of these available to me; certainly from Mac OS X 10.4.x, and right up to now, as I’m using Mac OS X 10.5.7. And I don’t see Apple not using them in Snow Leopard, which see’s its release in September of this year.

So, to follow on from the keyboard Shortcuts guide I did in April, here’s some helpful keyboard shortcuts for non-standard characters in Leopard …

SYMBOLS

KEYS

DESCRIPTION

“

Option [

Opening quotation mark

”

Option shift [

Closing mark

‘

Option ]

Opening apostrophe

’

Option shift ]

Closing apostrophe

–

Option Hyphen

En dash

—

Option shift hyphen

Em dash

…

Option ;

Ellipsis

ª

Option 9


·

Option Shift 9

Decimal Point.

º

Option 0

Degrees. (Temperarure)

•

Option 8

Bullet mark

°

Option Shift 8

Another Bullet mark

Option 7

Paragraph mark

‡

Option Shift 7

Footnote

§

Option 6

Another footnote

fl

Option Shift 6

Ligature of f & l

∞

Option 5

Infinity

fi

Option Shift 5

Ligature of f & i

¢

Option 4

2⁄4 time signature

#

Option 3

Hash Mark. The Americans call it a Pound sign.

»

Option Shift \

French closing quotation mark

›

Option Shift 4

French closing apostrophe

‹

Option Shift 3

French opening apostrophe

«

Option \

French opening quotation mark

€

Option 2

Euro currency sign. Cue Al Murrey

™

Option Shift 2

Trademark

©

Option g

Copyright sign

®

Option r

Registered sign

¡

Option 1

Spanish punctuation

¿

Option Shift /

More Spanish Punctuation

⁄

Option Shift 1

Division sign.

÷

Option /

Division sign.

ç

Option c


ç

Option shift c


Π

Option p

Lower case Pi

Π

Option shift p

Upper case Pi

Ω

Option z

Omega

æ

Option '


æ

Option shift '


≠

Option =

Does Not Equal

≈

Option x

Approximately equal to



I’d also like to thank David Pogue, of The Missing Manuel fame; I’d’ve never known about these, if it wasn’t for his very helpful indexes …

Hope those are helpful!!