On Apple Macintosh computers, there are keyboard shortcuts for the most common diacritics ; Option-e followed by a vowel places an acute accent, Option-u followed by a vowel gives an umlaut, option-c gives a cedilla, etc.

On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. ( now Apple Inc .) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.

On the Macintosh, fonts were originally stored in hand-tuned bitmap font files that specified individual pixel locations for a font at a particular size.

On the Macintosh platform, Microsoft released a PowerPC version of Windows Media Player for Mac OS X in 2003, but further development of the software has ceased.

On May 31, 2002, LucasArts and Aspyr Media announced that a Macintosh version of the game would be released.

In 1990, Kapor's new company ON Technology introduced their new product On Location, an application designed for the Macintosh that contained an indexing system that permit quick retrieval and display of text on the Mac's hard disk.

On a PowerPC-based Macintosh, the Open Firmware interface can be accessed by pressing the keys at startup.

On Apple Macintosh operating systems ( including Mac OS X ), it can be achieved by pressing and holding the Option key then typing " N ", followed by typing either " N " or " n ".

On the Macintosh, pixels are square and a GrafPort has a default resolution of 72 pixels per inch, chosen to match conventions established by the printing industry of having 72 points to the inch.

On Windows-based computers, holding while typing on the numeric keypad will create the cent sign ; on Macintosh systems, ; on Unix systems with a compose key, is a typical sequence.

On Windows and Macintosh systems, DejaVu is, however, practically unknown, whereas Bitstream Vera Sans has installation bases of 25 % and 20 % there, and 79 % on Unix, according to a survey.

On Macintosh systems, 24-bit color is referred to as " millions of colors.

On August 26, 1991, AppleLink, running on a Macintosh Portable was used to send the first e-mail from space, aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-43.

* On Macintosh systems, it may be entered by pressing option shift = ( on the non-numeric keypad ).

* On the Macintosh platform, Target Disk Mode allows a computer to operate as an external FireWire hard disk, essentially a disk slave mode.

On the Macintosh, many keyboard layouts employ dead keys.

On a Macintosh, pressing one of these Option-key combinations creates the accent and highlights it, then the final character appears when the key for the base character is pressed.

On Macintosh systems, XScreenSaver works with the usual Apple screen saver framework, and X11 is unneeded.

On March 13, 2012 The 7th Guest for Macintosh was released on the Mac App Store.

On 10 December 2011, Harris effectively admitted defeat in the leadership race, leaving the field to the last two contenders, Johann Lamont and Ken Macintosh.

On the Macintosh operating systems this works if you have a kerberos ticket ( use negotiate ).

On a Macintosh, the Alt key is called the Option key.

On 12 February 2009, Cameron Macintosh ( producer ) announced that Djalili will appear as the second Fagin in the new West End production of Oliver!

On the AZERTY keyboard layout it is just.

* On systems that support one-button mice, context menus are typically opened by pressing and holding the primary mouse button ( this works on the icons in the Dock on Mac OS X ) or by pressing a keyboard / mouse button combination ( e. g. Ctrl-mouse click in Mac OS ).

On the other hand, Mesa designers adopted the left-pointing arrow '←' character, which took the place of underscore in the Alto keyboard, for the assignment operator.

On 84-key keyboards ( except the 84-key IBM Model M space saver keyboard ), SysRq was a key of its own.

On the later 101-key keyboard, it shares a physical key with the Print Screen key function.

On the one hand, the security threat model for the software becomes entirely confined to the servers: the clients simply do not run the software ( think of them as a screen, keyboard and mouse-all keystrokes and mouse movements go to the server, which sends back the screen image ).

On 11 September 1591 John Baldwin, a tenor lay-clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor and later a colleague of Byrd in the Chapel Royal, completed the copying of My Ladye Nevells Booke, a collection of 42 of Byrd's keyboard pieces which was probably produced under Byrd's supervision and includes corrections which are thought to be in the composer's hand.

In the live performance of " Hang On to A Dream " with the Nice, recorded for the post-breakup album Elegy, he performed a cadenza of sorts hitting the piano strings with a small hammer, followed by a lengthy wind-down, returning to the song in which he alternated keyboard arpeggios with blows directly on the bass strings.

On 23 January 1973, he released The Six Wives of Henry VIII, an instrumental concept album based on his interpretations of the musical characteristics of the wives of Henry VIII, using keyboard instruments.

On the standard US keyboard layout, the < tt >#</ tt > symbol is.

On the QWERTY keyboard layout it is.

On the US tour, during a performance of Pulling Mussels ( From the Shell ) live on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show, Stephen Large played the keyboard solo on an Apple iPad.

On the front of the unit was a 24-key " hex-pad " keyboard used for selecting games and options.

On Danish and Norwegian keyboards and typewriters, the acute accent may be typed above any letter, on a keyboard by pressing the acute key before pressing the letter.

Danish keyboard with keys for Æ, Ø and Å. On Norwegian keyboards the Æ and Ø trade places. On Swedish and Finnish keyboards Æ and Ø are replaced with Ö and Ä, respectively.

On the variant, the bass line and keyboard chords of the original Tales of Mystery and Imagination track are heard, but they are quieter, do not feature a vocoder, and instead of an abridged version of the Poe poem being sung, the Woolfson version features a fuller spoken dramatic reading of the poem.

On machines that support multiple magazines, there is a shifting mechanism that controls which magazine is currently connected to the keyboard.

On a QWERTY keyboard, the stick is embedded between the " G ", " H " and " B " keys, and the mouse buttons are placed just below the Spacebar.

On the Mac OS X platform ( or when using the " US International "/ us-intl keyboard layout on Windows and Linux ), "¡" and "¿" can be entered by pressing Alt ( option ) + 1 and Shift + Alt ( option ) + / respectively.

On November 21, 2007, Motorola stated the failures were triggered by poor battery contacts ; sliding the screen out to type on the keyboard sometimes loosened the contact and forced the device to shut off momentarily.

On the simplest example of an electronic keyboard, MIDI messages would be sent when a note is pressed on the keyboard, and would determine which note is pressed and for how long.

On some systems, by pressing too many keys at once, the keyboard buffer overflows and will emit a beep from the computer's internal speaker.