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- noun computing A mode in which
capitalization of typed letter isreversed . - noun computing (
countable ) Akey on thekeyboard that activates capslock. - noun
All caps .
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Examples
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By fknsanta, December 5, 2009 @ 11: 54 am here, have an early chrissy pressie on the house .. hands over a box of cartia with “the purple ones birmin’am” scrawled in capslock on all sides before you bust a valve or sometin’. sorta dark irony playin’ it’s hand.
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Ok all right I give up, Lotus is hands down the king of angry capslock satire.
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Besides, the smart play is to use autohotkey to change the capslock to a shift+capslock and then repurpose it to something more ... ... purposeful. mahumphrey
Use Caps Lock For Hand-Friendly Text Navigation | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Shift + Capslock activates the actual Capslock functionality (normal capslock-hitting deactivates it again).
Use Caps Lock For Hand-Friendly Text Navigation | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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For more, read how to turn any action into a keyboard shortcut, or turn your capslock key into a dedicated minimize button.
Activate Alt-Tab Switching With Just Your Mouse | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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By virtual, December 4, 2009 @ 9: 39 am fkn grommets everywhere you look. no wonder the whole fkn planet is on capslock.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Here’s what I did at six o’clock this morning. 2009
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You are defending doing nothing, because you think you look cool when you say bad things about insurance companies with the capslock on.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010
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It's an epic fantasy in three volumes, spanning the cultures and empires of something not entirely unlike our own Central Asian Silk Road, and it features so much shiny I can't even beging to talk about without devolving into capslock and bangs.
it's not that i'm not threatened, it's just that i'm not surprised. arcaedia 2009
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You would prefer to keep the status quo because then you can make lots of use of capslock.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010
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I am a sort-of asexual (I'm not entirely sure) teenager, so Kevin made me capslock a lot, and I really appreciated the care you put into the racial issues (that's how the book was recommended to me - essentially, "this author says sensible things on the Internet, maybe I should read her book".)
GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD discussion/question thread. karenhealey 2010
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