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Education Media Design & Technology MS Program, Full Sail University
As a producer/engineer, I have worked with artists like Boyz II Men, Luther Vandross, Johnny Gill, Phyllis Hyman, Keith Sweat, and more. Prior to graduating from Delaware State University, my R and B band, "Final Mixx", won the 1989 National Budwieser Showdown Band Competition, which resulted in a recording contract with Motown Records. During my time at Motown, I was able to build my career in recording, engineering, and the technology of music. I am currently employed at Delaware State University where I serve as the Music Technology Specialist. In addition to working at the university, I also own a private recording studio where I work with DSU student interns seeking additional hands on experience in the production and recording environment.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

WK1: Free Choice Blog Post: MacOS Special Characters

Now that we have discussed the topic of copyright laws for our Media Asset Creation course, I have had a few people inquire as to how to create the copyright symbol, registered trademark symbol, etc. As some of you may have noticed, the option key on MacOS functions as a modifier key just like the shift key. Creating shortcuts for special characters can be achieved by either holding the option key and pressing an additional letter or number key – or by holding the option and shift key simultaneously and then pressing an additional letter or number key. Here are a few examples of this feature:

option+2                    ™
option+g                   ©
option+r                    ®
option+shift+k          

To see the complete list of special characters: option+command+T

When you have the special characters window open you can also double click on the character to insert it into your document. For more information regarding special characters, HTML name/number codes, and glyph, check out this site:

http://www.nouilles.info/keyboard_shortcuts.html

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