Mac and Apple
Mac and Apple
This thread is to hold matters of interest to users of Mac and other Apple products.
Re: Mac and Apple
Apple has announced OS X Yosemite and also iOS 8. These raise security and privacy issues, nicely explained by Richard Henderson. Admirable paranoia.
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I found out last week from an acquaintance with first-hand experience that iCloud and some of the Apple features designed for sharing content with family members can be a dangerous thing if incorrectly configured.
He is now living in a flat on his own, visiting his children at weekends and the mistress who was sending the intimate selfies that ended up on the family iPad has decided to seek other interests.
It is not only the innocent who get caught out by these things.
He is now living in a flat on his own, visiting his children at weekends and the mistress who was sending the intimate selfies that ended up on the family iPad has decided to seek other interests.
It is not only the innocent who get caught out by these things.
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I thought that starting this thread in meaningless drivel was a bon mot, until I saw the second post.jdaw1 wrote:This thread is to hold matters of interest to users of Mac and other Apple products.
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poor blokeDRT wrote: He is now living in a flat on his own, visiting his children at weekends and the mistress who was sending the intimate selfies that ended up on the family iPad has decided to seek other interests.
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The approved technique is probably System Preferences… > Keyboard > Text, but for me that doesn’t work everywhere.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=79480#p79480]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:(BTW I have just figured out how to assign a keyboard shortcut, on a Mac, to give me ½, ¼, and ¾, without having to go to the Character Viewer!)
Unicode fractions to include: ½ ¼ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ⅓ ⅔ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚.
Non-Mac, such as Tapatalk, can copy-paste from www.jdawiseman.com/cp.html.
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Perhaps Daniel could explain his method?
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On a Windows PC, hold down ALT and use the number pad. ¼, ½, and ¾ are ALT-0188, ALT-0189, and ALT-0190.
http://www.irongeek.com/alt-numpad-asci ... chart.html
http://www.irongeek.com/alt-numpad-asci ... chart.html
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Exactly as JDAW said. I had already used this to input words which I didn't want auto-corrected in any application (I notice 'quinta' and 'quintas' in there) but I'd forgotten about it for this. Keying fxx => ½. fxxx => ¼, fxxxx => ¼. I don't need many other fractions apart from that. If I do, I can add them.
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In Excel 2011, it doesn’t work if the cell already contains more than about 255 characters.jdaw1 wrote:but for me that doesn’t work everywhere.
My text substitutions:
× :*:
Lɪʙᴏʀ :L:
Tᴀʀɢᴇᴛ :T:
© (c)
½ 1/2
⅓ 1/3
¼ 1/4
⅙ 1/6
⅛ 1/8
⅔ 2/3
¾ 3/4
⅜ 3/8
⅚ 5/6
⅝ 5/8
⅞ 7/8
℅ c/o
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A question has been asked of those with experience of printing from Word to PDF.