I also thought of that, but he still doesn't want. He wants to use the caps lock key, don't ask me why. :x
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It's not automatic, but it can be useful for your father: Case Changer
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Wow, that really IS nearly perfect. This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much!
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That really is quite good. Thank you for sharing that find, it's awesome. Whilst it isn't, as you say, automatic, it's pretty much exactly what he wants. He types and realises, after 5 minutes of furious finger bashing, when he looks at the screen and see ALL CAPS. Play sinister music
"Bloody great", he'll say in despair at facing another 5 minutes and possible blisters on his fingers, "now I have to do it all again". But wait!! He just selects the text he's just typed out, (CTRL+A or, at the top of the text, click there, then press and hold SHIFT and click at the bottom of the text), then he can choose Sentence case and all is well with the world and jbondguy can go to sleep that night, comfortably, knowing in his heart that his father won't sneak into his room at 03:16 and bludgeon him to near-death because he's taken his CAPS LOCK key off the keyboard.
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Cannot think of anything other than chopping your fathers hands off. I presume that is out of the question cause he will need them yes?
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most useful tool of all time (to remove the single most useless key on every keyboard):
you can assign another function to the key (like normal shift) or just turn it off completely.
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Better:
http://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/
I use this because I got annoyed at always looking up the codes needed to do the registry edit (because it literally just does a registry edit that I would do manually before). I replace Caps Lock with left Ctrl on my computers and whenever I reinstall the OS.
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"(to remove the single most useless key on every keyboard)"
I beg to differ, I have been known to use it every now and then, making it ONE of the most useless keys but not THE useless...but I don't think, in 16 years of using a PC, that I've ever used ALTGR. In fact, I don't even know what the GR stands for!! At least CAPS LOCK is explanatory, Capital Lock.
EDIT Ahh, Alt Graphic....at least now I know
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My English Keyboard doesn't even have Alt Gr (just two ALTs) [with the right one working different indeed than the left one]. German keyboards do have Alt GR and there it's used to make an @ via AltGr+Q or an € via AltGr+E very frequently. On an english keyboard you have to use AltGr+5 for the Euro symbol. And to make German Scharf-S and Umlaute on an Englisch keyboard with the international English keyboard layout (in Windows) you need to press AltGR and S/Q/Y/P to make ß/Ä/Ü/Ö.
So in general AltGR is used to make all the symbols you usually google for to copy and paste them as you do not know how to actually type them :D
Full collection:
äåé®þüúíóö««»áßðø¶´æ©ñµç¿¡²³¤€¼½¾‘’¥×
The "cAPSLOCK key" however has no function at all as you never should write more than a single word capitalized (never a full sentence). So for every time you actually want to use the capslock key, you probably accidentally had it activated for 10.000 times before (rough estimation). That's not a very effective ratio :D
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Hmm, I just tried ALTGR+5 and nothing happened.....Maybe I'm destined never to use that key at all, then, I was looking forward to knowing how to use the Euro symbol, would save messing about when recommending bundles to friends.
Oh, I just tried, for shits and giggles, pressing ALTGR and every number, only ALTGR+4 worked, that gives you the Euro symbol €, the rest seem to do nothing
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You could learn your dad to keep an eye on the little Caps Lock indicator. Shouldn't be a problem, since you said your dad is looking at the keyboard when typing, anyway.
Light's on = CAPS, Light's off = no caps.
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Yeah, no. If he can't remember to "un-caps", I doubt he'll remember to look at the caps lock key.
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Yeah, so my dad has the bad habit of using caps lock instead of shift when he types. But even worse, he forgets to "un-caps" and he types a piece of text, then he notices that it's all in caps afterwards (he looks at his keyboard when he types, not at the screen.)
Needless to say, it really pisses him off.
Now, I'd want to help him, but I can't find what I want. I told him to use shift instead of caps lock, but he won't. :P
I thought of something, though. He'd need an addon (browser addon is alright) that would stop him from doing so. Something like an auto corrector that would convert a text in caps to normal text has he types, excluding capital letters (at the beginning of a text), or perhaps a beeper to let you know when you left caps lock toggled...
It's a long shot, but maybe some of you has seen something similar? I've tried searching for one, but no luck.
Thanks! :)
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