Caps Lock - CLASSIC or dud?

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PRESSING IT REALLY HARD MAKES ME FEEL TENSE AND I E-SCREAM WAY BETTER

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TESTING TESTING ONE TWO I AM HOLDING DOWN SHIFT WITH MY LEFT PINKY PINKY PINKY

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OTM

An Auckland accountant was sacked for sending confrontational emails with words in red, in bold and in capital letters.

I've got a teeny tiny little aluminum iMac keyboard. One of the most annoying aspects of it is that it doesn't have a numeric keypad off to the side, just the row of numbers on top. To further make the situation even more aggravating, the + key has to be shifted or else it's just an =.

So if you got a list of numbers to add, you can't just look at the list and rattle off your calculations without having to hit shift+= between each number. I go online and look around to see if I could somehow turn my Caps Lock key into a Shift Key instead, and all I could find were messagboards and Yahoo answers idiots bemoaning the fact that a Caps Key even exists.

How fucking fat are your left pinky fingers to have the problem of hitting Caps Lock instead of the Shift key when typing, so much that there are entire YouTubes devoted to prying the buttons off your keyboard? Are these same people somehow hitting the Enter key when trying to use the right Shift key.

Anyway. I still haven't discovered a way to do basic arithmetic on my iMac without having to sometimes press two buttons at once.

my fingers are quite fat - Imagine Kingpin grasping Ant Man's tiny head.
Cpas lock is useful for when you want to make your letters TALL!

PP:

Pretty sure Apple still sell a keyboard with the numberpad, but seriously, fuck them for making a keyboard with a numberpad a luxury item.

One of these?
http://www.comfortkeyboard.com/images/number_pad.jpg

fuck them for making a keyboard with a the numberpad a luxury item.

I've got an old keyboard in the closet that is NOT Bluetooth and is NOT stylish and WEIGHS more than a carrot, but fuck me if I'm going to dig around and hook that thing up whenever I want to add up a quick budget. I've got a calculator too, but it was in the other room though.

I guess more my point is, why can't I reprogram the keys on a keyboard to do what I want them to do? And of - all - the - keys on a standard keyboard, Caps Lock is the one that's driving people to their screwdrivers? I find it handy to have

I thought you could make the keyboard become a number pad - something like iop corresponds to 789? must have to switch on functionality somehow

PP: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20010508131542947

I don't know if this is deeper into the system OS than you want to dig, but there's some info out there

http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html

http://startly.com/products/quickeys/mac/4/

alternately/allegedly you can use this software to map your own number pad onto the keyboard

I thought you could make the keyboard become a number pad - something like iop corresponds to 789? must have to switch on functionality somehow

― Latham Green, Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:32 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/the-hidden-numeric-keypad-on-your-laptop.html

Apple removed this a few years ago I think?

Those links are helpful. Thank you.

I even tried to set up a macro, but nuthin.

AT Apple, innovation often means sacrifice. Their motto is "No one needs more than two usb ports"

That's funny, my Mac has five.

freak mac

ooh look at you with yr fancy USB ports

la-di-da

suddenly I see a thread connection

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