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- [Lee] Hi, this is Lee Garrett,
and welcome to another weekly tip video.
In this video I'm going to share with you
a tip for using macOS that I've been using for years.
Like many of you, I love keyboard shortcuts.
The less I can use my track pad, the better
and I'll do all I can to leverage
the use of shortcuts where possible.
Also, like many of you I'm sure,
shortcuts that require the use
of four multiple key modifiers
such as Shift, Control, Alt, and Command
can be a real pain to implement
to the point where it may be quicker
to actually navigate to the menu options to find it.
Now this is a tip I picked up
from Brett Terpstra's blog but in 2012,
and it's become so ingrained in my use of macOS,
the last time I reinstalled an OS onto my laptop,
I just assumed it was built-in,
I forgot to add this tip in.
I'm gonna show you how to modify the Caps Lock key,
probably one of the most underused keys for any power user,
and turn it into the shortcut modifier
that I mentioned earlier,
Shift, Control, Alt, and Command.
Now it requires the use of some third party software
called Karabiner Elements.
So I'm just gonna navigate to their site.
Okay here we are at pqrs.org
and the download link for the software is just here.
First though, I'm just gonna go to the Pricing tab
to show you how much it costs.
And as you can see there, it's open source,
so there is no cost to you.
However, there is an option to make a contribution
to the application's development
which you can do via PayPal.
Now I've made the contribution myself
because I think it's a great application,
but obviously it's up to you
if you wish to make a contribution.
Just popping back across to the download tab
and I'm going to initiate the download now.
Now it's not a large installer file,
so it shouldn't take too long,
depends on your connection.
There it is, that's downloaded.
I'll just go to my Downloads folder
and open the DMG file.
I'm just gonna double-click the package file
and I think I'll close down some of these windows
around here just to make things a little easier to see.
Now installing the application is very standard.
There are no surprises here.
So I'm just gonna click Continue
and enter my admin credentials where necessary.
And there.
I'll just put the installer file into the trash.
And now that's installed, let's open it.
And I'll just do that through Spotlight.
Now there is an important point to note here.
There are a couple of dialogue boxes that pop up
the first ever time you run this setup,
which haven't appeared here on this Screencast
because while this isn't the first time
that I've run the installer on this machine,
and despite uninstalling on the various profiles
I've got here,
it does seem to have cached these settings,
which is fine, I'll just tell you what they are.
On the first popup you're guided towards the security
and privacy section of system preferences.
Well you have to allow access for Karabiner Elements.
Next popup points you towards identifying
your keyboard locale.
Now as this is an application
that manipulates the keyboard output,
it does make sense to ascertain whether it's a US keyboard,
a British keyboard, etcetera.
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