Interesting: TheBookYard : UK Apple spare parts specialist.
via: Macbook white thingy below keyboard button is broken – Ask Different.
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TheBookYard : UK Apple spare parts specialist
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/16
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Keyboard shortcuts – G+/Gmail Help
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/15
I’m glad that G+ supports keyboard shortcuts out of the box:
Google+ supports the following keyboard shortcuts. To see the full list from any screen in Google+, press SHIFT+?
The list is big, but is close to for instance the GMail shortcut list.
–jeroen
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If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your #Chromebook… (via: Google Chrome – Google+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/13
This reminds me about mapping the CapsLock to Windows-key on old Lenovo keyboard (you can do that [Wayback/Archive] with ReMapKey from Microsoft, the [Wayback/Archive] slightly more convoluted open source SharpKeys, or a AutoHotKey script), and a [Wayback] Mac equivalent:
MacOS:
I like to have a second Control key instead of Caps Lock.
In OS X, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys… and change or turn off Caps Lock, Control, Option and Command.
For more radical key remapping in OS X, use KeyRemap4MacBook. Despite the name, it works on non-Macbook machines, too.
…
ChromeBook:
If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your #Chromebook, you can turn the Search button into a Caps Lock button in a couple steps: find “Keyboard Settings” under the “Settings” menu, and select “Caps Lock” under the “Search” drop-down menu.
Or you can use this quick link on your Chromebook: chrome://settings/keyboard-overlay
Chromebook has [Wayback/Archive] quite some different keys than a Windows keyboard.
Ben Ostrowsky has a nice post with an SVG drawing of the [Wayback/Archive] Chromebook keyboard layout.
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Fixing Inverted Caps Lock on VMWare Fusion, Parallels, or Remote Desktop (RDP/MSTSC)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/10
Every now and then my Mac RDP program will suddenly turn on the CAPS LOCK on the connected Windows terminal.
It happens on different OS X versions, and different Windows versions. I haven’t figured out the steps to reproduce yet. I will amend this post when I have (:
I also have it occasionally fail when I RDP from a physical Windows system to another Windows system, but far less than from Mac OS X.
You work around it using the On Screen Keyboard tool in Windows like Josh Adams explains:
- launch the On-screen Keyboard application (generally this can be done by choosing Start ==> All Programs ==> Accessories ==> Accessibility ==> On-screen Keyboard; as noted by DrFooMod2 in a comment below, you can also bring up the On-screen Keyboard by typing “osk” without the quotes in the Windows Run… box) and
- toggle Caps Lock by clicking on the virtual “lock” button in the application.
- The On-screen Keyboard application shows–and can change–the state of Caps Lock
The easiest way to start the On Screen Keyboard is to create a shortcut to this:
%windir%\system32\osk.exe
–jeroen
via: Josh Adams’s Blog: Fixing Inverted Caps Lock on VMWare Fusion, Parallels, or Remote Desktop.
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OS X menu keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-F2 and Shift-Command-?
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/04
So I don’t forget:
Often, Ctrl-F2 (^-F2) fails to show the menu, but ⇧ ⌘ ? (shift+command+/) works all the time.
You can navigate the menus in the menu bar without using a mouse or trackpad. To put the focus in the menu bar, press Control-F2 (Fn-Control-F2 on portable keyboards). Then use the key combinations listed below.
Key combination What it does Left Arrow and Right Arrow Move from menu to menu Return Open a selected menu Up Arrow and Down Arrow Move to menu items in the selected menu Type the menu item’s name Jump to a menu item in the selected menu Return Select a menu item
–jeroen
via:
- OS X keyboard shortcuts.
- osx – Control-F2 “Move Focus to Menu Bar” only works occasionally – Ask Different.
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To force-quit Mac Applications: the Mac equivalent of “Ctrl Alt Delete” (via: eHow.com): Option-Command-Esc
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/03
Once every while, a full screen app on your Mac hangs, and there is no way to Command-Tab to another application.
PC addicts then press Ctrl+Alt+Del, to either get to the Task Manager, or to logoff/reboot.
For a Mac, there are two:
- Force Quit Read the rest of this entry »
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Mac function keys (F1-F12) in remote desktop (Windows RDP/MSTSC) – MacRumors Forums
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/24
The F keys on a Mac still perform the Mac OS X specific function, even in a full screen RDP session, but you can get their Windows functionality back with ease as MacRumors user blindzombie shows:
I got it to work with fn – command – F9
or just command – F9 if you set your keyboard preferences to use F1, F2, etc as standard function key
–jeroen
via function keys (F1-F12) in remote desktop – MacRumors Forums.
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Office Communicator 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts – Communicator – Office.com
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/29
I wasn’t aware that Office Communicator supported keyboard shortcuts for text formatting in the chat window.
Since I normally use RDP/MSTSC connections to a work machine (the laptop often moves around which means that network connections aren’t
“persistent”), which means that every once in a while a key like Shift, Alt, Ctrl, or Windows hangs.
That’s how I found out why sometimes the font in the chat window changed a bit: most often the font became strike through, which corresponds to Ctrl-T.
Three things that Microsoft should improve here:
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80 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Outlook
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/25
The ones I use most:
- Ctrl + Y Go to Folder
- Ctrl + Shift + M Open a new Message
–jeroen
via: 80 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Outlook.
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Classic Menu for Office 2010 and 2013 Programs
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/04
As with Office 2007 and up, quite a few features – including menus and keyboard shortcuts – have been removed or changed.
Microsoft has many posts on them, some of which are here:
- Discontinued features and modified functionality in Outlook 2007 – Outlook – Office.com [WayBack].
- Discontinued features and modified functionality in Outlook 2010 – Outlook – Office.com [WayBack].
- Discontinued features and modified functionality in Outlook 2013 – Outlook – Office.com [WayBack].
The menu part can be remedied with ease: Bring Back Classic Menus and Toolbars to Outlook 2010 and 2013 [WayBack].
Works like a charm, and you can purchase for individual Office programs, or for 3 suite combinations [WayBack].
–jeroen
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