Shock! Horror! - Caps Lock is Actually Good for Something

Hell is indeed freezing all over. With Humanized's free tool called Enso (available for Win2K, XP, and Vista) you can do lots of useful things with that dreaded EULA fine print key.

You can for example switch to other windows easily, open websites, spell check, count words, evaluate mathematical expressions, and lots of other useful stuff. The math thing is very handy if you use IM or IRC clients and feel like throwing some facts around. Well, check out the videos if you aren't sure if it's something for you.

By the way the Mozilla foundation recently hired some UI designers from Humanized.

Oh yea, and pressing caps lock feels really weird. ;)

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lol caps

my caps key is mapped to the ESC key, makes it easier to move around in VIM with that

OMG!!!

THAT ONE ROCKS! REALLY! :)

Didn't know how I survived for that long without it! :_)

void256

i use caps lock for ENTERING

i use caps lock for ENTERING CAPITAL LETTERS.

Yea yea...

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!

Well, caps are harder to read, because we're less trained to read em. That's the reason why the "fine" print in licenses uses capital letters. It makes you skip that section, because you simply cannot be arsed.

If you aren't writing licenses on a daily basis there is very little use for caps lock. So far I've only pressed it by accident (a few times each year). It's almost as useless as scroll lock.

Caps Lock -> Ctrl

I mapped Caps Lock to Ctrl long ago in both Linux and Windows. It's much easier on the pinky. (Many keyboards actually used to be configured this way by default, with Caps Lock relegated to a corner and Ctrl right next to your pinky.)

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