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This thread is to hold matters of interest to users of Mac and other Apple products.
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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.
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jdaw1 wrote:This thread is to hold matters of interest to users of Mac and other Apple products.
I thought that starting this thread in meaningless drivel was a bon mot, until I saw the second post.
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DRT 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.
poor bloke :cry:
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[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!)
The approved technique is probably System Preferences… > Keyboard > Text, but for me that doesn’t work everywhere.

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
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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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jdaw1 wrote:but for me that doesn’t work everywhere.
In Excel 2011, it doesn’t work if the cell already contains more than about 255 characters.

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.
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