No more accidental Caps Lock with CapSee

If you've ever accidentally turned on your Caps Lock key and caused some trouble, Threemagination's utility CapSee may be just what you're looking for. It simply displays a bezel notification on your screen when you hit the Caps Lock key, reminding you that Caps Lock is on. It's free, and useful for anyone who might need such a reminder.

Threemagination has just released the latest version of CapSee, which adds the ability to hide the menu icon and make CapSee as unobtrusive as you like.

Personally, I always remap my Caps Lock key to an Option key in my System Preferences (go to the Keyboard pane and look in the lower right for the Modifier Keys button). OS X also provides a small icon in password dialogs that lets you know you've got Caps Lock on. There are, I'm sure, plenty of people who actually use Caps Lock for legitimate purposes, which is where CapSee shines. If you're suffering from Accidental Caps Lock Syndrome, give it a shot.

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Marco F.

I never have CAPSLOCK problems since I switched it off in the preferences. My CAPS key doesn't do anything. But this looks like a good option for people that use the CAPS on a regular basis.

What I would like to see on the Mac is a CAPS a la iphone: doubletap the SHIFT key for CAPS. Is there an app for that?

March 18 2010 at 4:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sean Peters

The caps lock key gets a lot of hate... but I'm in the defense industry, and we type a lot of acronyms. You can have my caps lock key when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

March 17 2010 at 10:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jennyp

Agree with Dave - The caps lock key on my mbp is a bit reluctant - you really have to hit it just right to activate it .. Perhaps this thing could do with a sound also for caps on and caps off.

March 17 2010 at 8:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TedJ

I can't wait for the new app that prevents accidental goats... ;)

March 17 2010 at 8:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tuaw

What is the point in this?

Anyone half decent at typing will be looking at their screen while doing so and will see the text is in CAPS without the need for a daft popup thing. If they are transcribing a document, they'll be looking at the sheet of paper and will see neither the CAPITALS nor the popup.

fAIL..

March 17 2010 at 8:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Darren Beckett

100,000 people seem to disagree with you Colin (according to the company's download counter)

March 17 2010 at 8:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

oliver

Completely agree with Kovah, I never have a problem with my caps-lock coming on by mistake. You have to be pretty deliberate on the aluminium keyboards and laptops, same with the eject key.

March 17 2010 at 4:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dave

I actually find it annoying how I have to precisely hit the caps lock key on the aluminum keyboard to get it to activate. I wish it was easier.

March 17 2010 at 5:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kovah

No, I've never done that.. The whole Aluminum keyboard which you really have to work getting the caps to go on has never gone on unintentionally.

And when is this really a big problem? Don't you guys look at your screen when you type, so that you see if the text is upper or lower case?

March 17 2010 at 4:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Stan

Any reasonably fast typist will have to go back and correct at least a word or two whenever Caps Lock it hit by accident. It can be very annoying and time consuming.

The Insert key has a similar and equally annoying problem. Thankfully Apple got rid of the Insert key, and many PC keyboards are getting rid of it as well.

There have been many attempts to fix the terrible usability problems with the Caps Lock key, but few address the root problem, which is that it occupies and extremely valuable position on the keyboard.

March 17 2010 at 5:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tomsmith

THIS IS A GREAT IDEA. IT WOULD HELP A LOT, PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TELLING ME TO TURN OFF MY CAPS LOCK BECAUSE THEY THINK I AM YELLING AT THEM OR SOMETHING.

March 17 2010 at 4:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stan

The original NeXTcube keyboard had an ingenious solution for the Caps Lock Problem: it had no dedicated Caps Lock key. Instead, caps lock is toggled by pressing Command+Shift. Two green LEDs light up on both Shift keys to indicate when it's enabled.

This eliminates the annoying and time wasting problem of hitting Caps by accident, and it frees up valuable keyboard real estate for much more deserving keys.

March 17 2010 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andre

Or you could just disable it completely within the Keyboard preference pane. Go to Modifier Keys, then set the drop-down for Caps Lock to No Action.

March 17 2010 at 3:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply