EurKEY – The best keyboard layout for Europeans

— Posted inPersonal, Recommendations, Technology — 2 min read

Intro

EurKEY is a multilingual keyboard layout which is intended for Europeans, programmers and translators and was developed by Steffen Brüntjen and published under the GPL free software license. It is available for common desktop operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. (yes it was taken from Wikipedia)

It has multiple features that allow you to type different letters (such as ä á à â å (and other letters with these diacritics) œ æ ij (whatever this is) ß Đ), Greek letters (α Σ π etc.), math symbols (√ ∞ ≡ ∃ ∠ ∟ ∂ etc.) and even arrows and trademark symbols (←↓↙↘ ⇓⇐ ™ © ® etc.)

Installing

  1. Go to the Download page and download 1.3 version (even if it’s beta). If you have problems, you can find this version here (3s)
  2. Decompress the zip folder and run setup.exe
  3. After that you might see it in the keyboard layout menu (WIN + SPACE for Windows, I don’t know the rest)
  4. For it to work properly, you have to restart your computer/sign out
  5. After that you are ready. For tips look at the pdf from the download page (i recommend looking for the one with the parenthesis next to it)

Features

  1. By pressing altGr (right alt) or CTRL+LEFT ALT you can get different characters like ß þ ij ø œ (Yea you can see here everything)
  2. By pressing altGr + M you get all greek letters such as π and αλφα
  3. By pressing altGr + shift + M you get math symbols such as ∞ and √ and ≈
  4. By pressing altGr + \ you get other symbols such as № ½ ⅓ § © ™ ↓ ⇒ etc

Note: You can type superscript and subscript with this, but for me (I use 3s) I have to use altGr+6 (for super script) and altGr+shift+6 (for subscript) instead of altGr+M and altGr+shift+M as it is shown in the pdf (plus you have to use normal parenthesis instead of square parenthesis and brackets)

Conclusion

I personally think that this is a must if you are obsessed with symbols, or you have your mobile keyboard so customized you want your pc’s too (#relatable)

Let’s help Microsoft fix their mistakes

— Posted inSoftware, Technology — 2 min read

Introduction

It’s clear that Microsoft has made many mistakes in the company’s lifetime, from killing anything that they buy to the creation of Windows 8.

What mistakes did they do?

Well first, there is Windows 8, with its metro UI that confused everybody and got a reputation so bad Windows 8.1 was recognized as the same problem, even if they fixed the start menu. The problem was that tablets were all the rage back then. Microsoft saw money out of that trend and they made the start menu be more useful on a tablet but failed at being good on a computer.

A program I should mention is Clippy. We all know about him being the assistant we never needed. Same thing as Windows 8. They thought it would be a great idea to make something that was trending, and turned out to be bad. Clippy tried to help, but he was useless and annoying. Let’s just say even a spyware (if you know you know) would do a better job.

Clippy

Skype was the most popular video chat app in the 2000’s. It was bought by Microsoft and got worse and worse over time. Exact same thing: they buy/make, they end up making the thing worse.

Here’s the part where you help!

I want all of you as a community to help Microsoft fix their mistakes, and even make Windows 12 (when it will come out) be better and have less bloatware. We will make Microsoft better again, like how it was when Windows 7 was still around!

I want all of you to post everywhere ,on every social media you have, something you would want to change about the company, and then ,maybe, link to this blog post.