Some Times I Crack Myself Up!

On my Mac, and probably everyone else's, the sequence for getting é or É is this: Press the option key and the E key simultaneously. Then press the E key alone. Option-E gives you an acute accent on whatever letter you press next. á Á ó Ó

The umlaut is tied to the U. Option-U followed by O produces ö. The tilde, of course, is on the N. ñ The cedilla is on the C. ç

Heh! On my PC, Alt-e opened up a browser menu and then pressing e opened up a new tab for Help!

tonylong wrote in post #16982702
Heh! On my PC, Alt-e opened up a browser menu and then pressing e opened up a new tab for Help!

Blame Bill Gates for that. Macs are more intuitive.

OhLook wrote in post #16983604
Blame Bill Gates for that. Macs are more intuitive.

Alt-E is not a Windows-wide shortcut but is local to the current program.

Win-E on the other hand is a Windows-specific shortcut that you could debate if Bill has been involved in.

But at any rate, with a Windows PC we don't have the type of shortcut that OhLook describes on her Mac...?

tonylong wrote in post #16945573
And then, for the past number of months, I've been staying in a room and, with stuff going on, I a lot of time don't think to turn lights on, so as it gets later, and darker, my keyboard which is on a lowered tray gets darker...but, since I'm used to touch typing, I can be OK for a while, but then, sometimes those fingers get mixed up and I can't see at a glance that typing, say, "pretty woman", well I look up at the monitor and I'm skewered, "[tryyu ep,sm", heh, I have to stop, look down in the dim light, and realize that instead of having my fingers positioned properly, they have move one key over

Used to be there was a little dimple on one key so that you could feel where to place your fingers. I guess it was too expensive to continue that practice & someone saved the company $0.0002 per keyboard by doing away with it.
And I've built a little cardboard cofferdam around the Caps Lock key. (You know wHY, RIGHT?) ; )

Oh, & BTW...

tonylong wrote in post #17004396
If you're asking for doing the MFA, well, technically anything sturdy and stable can do, but the challenge will be to avoid any "push" on the camera as you are "teaking" the adjustment and checking the results...so, without a tripod you'll want to work on your support!

Beyond the MFA, there are other approaches to testing/analyzing your sharpness as well as your AF performance!

What's the step-by-step process for "teaking"? ; )

PhotosGuy wrote in post #17007076
Used to be there was a little dimple on one key so that you could feel where to place your fingers. I guess it was too expensive to continue that practice & someone saved the company $0.0002 per keyboard by doing away with it.

Mine has bumps on the index-finger keys in the home row, F and J. I believe they're meant primarily to assist the blind, but the sighted can also use them.

Woodn't you like to know!

PhotosGuy wrote in post #17007076
Oh, & BTW... What's the step-by-step process for "teaking"? ; )

You start with some very thin teak veneer....

Well, go ahead you guys and have some fun at my expense!

But yeah, as OhLook notes, there are bumps one the F and J keys, groovy as long as you actually take note of them!

tonylong wrote in post #17008043
Well, go ahead you guys and have some fun at my expense!

We will!

Now we know you are a child of the '60s! Which explains a lot!

20droger wrote in post #17008730
Now we know you are a child of the '60s! Which explains a lot!

Rog, being a "child of the '60s" means not just memory loss 'cause we are getting "old", but, well, what the heck is memory?

tonylong wrote in post #17008782
Rog, being a "child of the '60s" means not just memory loss 'cause we are getting "old", but, well, what the heck is memory?

The second thing to go as you age.

Can't remember what the first thing was

OhLook wrote in post #17007142
Mine has bumps on the index-finger keys in the home row, F and J. I believe they're meant primarily to assist the blind, but the sighted can also use them.
Woodn't you like to know!

No - not intended for the blind. Intended for the touch-typists. Remember a situation where you do not look at the keyboard at all - and may not look at the written text on the monitor either for quite some time in case you are entering text from some other source.

Without the bumps on F and J, you can't know that you have returned your hands to the right spot after maybe made use of the numeric keypad or maybe turned a page in a book.