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I have no affiliate relationships with anyone, and I receive nothing if you buy any product or service that I happen to mention.

I can honestly assure you that I’ve downloaded and paid for StartAllBack myself, even before writing about it.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with free software. But I agree with Susan Bradley that products supported by a payment or donation model are more likely to be upgraded in a timely fashion to keep pace with the OS. (The developer is not required to neglect their day job to make extensive code updates with no compensation.)

 

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Andy M

Thank you for your interest. There is a blue-and-tan “cheat sheet” in the article and in the downloadable ZIP file. It shows most of the glyphs that Brian’s Quick Keys can produce. To enter the degree and bullet symbols you mentioned, see the following line in the cheat sheet:

Backquote @ a A b or o — to enter å Å (Aring) • ° (degree)

The AutoHotKeys script uses Unicode hex values, not the Alt+nnnn system that Windows used on the numeric keypad. I think Backquote @ o is easier to remember to make a degree symbol than Alt+0176. I selected the “@” symbol for this key sequence because it is round, like the circular shapes of the Aring, bullet, and degree characters.

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AusJohn

Nothing in the story was cut and pasted. The transposition of “FRL” to “FLR” was a typo that was caught by the proofreader but somehow didn’t get fixed before publication. We may be able to correct it on the page. Thanks for noticing!

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rc primak

My thanks to everyone who provided valuable comments on my column. It’s impossible to write about every combination of provider and options. But I’ll strive to cover the most important variations in my columns to come! Thanks again….

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Kirsty, geekdom, satrow

Writers can’t be on the forum all of the time, and I myself won’t always be in here, either. But I’ll pop in if I ever have some spare time. I hope you’ll help each other as much as you can. I’ll try to keep my columns as full of useful information as possible. Thanks for reading! —Brian Livingston

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