Comments on: Who Hid the Hash Key?

By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:40:53 +0000

@Frank: Sorry I was slow getting to this. Quirky? I could never go back to usng a PC all of the time (which I did since they first hit the shops up to 2004). The overall experience is just so much better…

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:16:11 +0000

Thanks forthis. I’ve grown up with PCs and have occasionally to use Macs. I’m sorry but they are just too quirky to be easy to use. This is just the sort of thing they assume you know, and there is no way to find out. Thanks again.

There is an old MS-DOS shortcut that still works in Windows: Alt + numeric code on the right hand keypad will give any character in the code table. So Alt 35 gives #, $ is Alt 36, £ is Alt 156, etc. Does the Mac have anything like this?

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:33:34 +0000

Praise be to you ###

By: MaFt

MaFt — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:30:58 +0000

awesome stuff! cheers for all the tips! just moved to mac and really needed the # for css

i would have worked it out but i was using the alt key as a shortcut for spaces so it jumped to my 3rd space when i tried it initially!!

MaFt

By: Максим

Максим — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:57:56 +0000

Спасибо вам огромное, пост действительно грамотно написан и по делу, есть что почерпнуть.

By: cgimusic

cgimusic — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:12:48 +0000

For VMWare on my Mac it’s Shift+3.

By: Hash lover!!

Hash lover!! — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:57:58 +0000

Yay, thansk, it’s been annoying me!!
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By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:32:52 +0000

@Law: Useful info – thanks

By: Law

Law — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:21:04 +0000

Found the solution to #’s for vmware/windows setups on a June 2008 Macbook Pro British keyboard – a simple “shift and \” will give you the # you need!!

By: Law

Law — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:13:44 +0000

Yey – I can do # again!! lol

Oh – fyi – that keybinding doesn’t work if you are forced to use Windows via VMWare Fusion at least…. I program .NET for a living so I still can’t go 100% win-free, and its causing me headaches.

Thanks for the help anyway!!