AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE
Posted on March 8th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
This kind of program has been around since Bill Gates was a baby, and it’s still handy. It’s “RoboType,” and it can save you the trouble of retyping any block of text by just assigning a couple of letters to it. It reminds Bob of his old days in the newsroom when Zbigniew Brzezinski was President Carter’s national security advisor. Someone on the copy desk taped a sign on the wall that read: “Zbigniew Brzezinski is unfair to copy editors.” With RoboType installed, they could have assigned his name to a couple of key letters, like “zb.” Then if they typed “zb” and hit the space bar while in Word or some other word processor, a little blue box would […]
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