![]() Prior to this, of course, you’ll have to actually add the booze and the mixers. Once you’ve made your selection, the machine will go about doing it’s machine-y things to make your drink-dispensing liquids into the glass roving beneath the liquids, mixing stuff up at 300 RPM in its special vortex receptacle-and thirty seconds later, bam: you’re ready to get drunk off a cocktail a robot made. Without getting too into the weeds about how this machine works, because we’re not even going to pretend to try to understand how this machine really works, you basically download the app, and either ask it to make one of it’s pre-programmed libations, or use it to create one of your own. And, if the promotional materials for Barsys are any indication, it appears they’ve finally done it. This feels like a technological nut people who like to drink have been trying to crack for a long, long time. It’s an automated cocktail maker, by which me mean, it’s a bona fide frickin’ ROBOT BARTENDER, and it’s available to purchase online in the US for the first time on August 1 st (it was previously only available in India, England, Italy and Switzerland). It doesn’t have any preferences when it comes to serving, say, very attractive women, before it serves you.Įxcuse us-we were just going over some pros and cons regarding Barsys. It isn’t someone whose number you can try (and most likely fail) to score on the way out. The only downsides are that it leaves the character selected, so you have to deselect it (right-cursor, mouse click, etc.) before entering more text (which I guess makes it 2 keystrokes), and it's slow, takes about a second.-It can’t be a sounding board for all your existential woes. ![]() Then open System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services, scroll down to Text services, find your new one, click somewhere in the empty white space to the farthest right of its name, and when the text entry box appears, press your desired key combo (I used command-option-shift-A). Return (character id 945)Įnd runĪnd Save it with your desired name (e.g., "α", "Paste an alpha character", etc.). Text-replacement wasn't introduced until 10.13 High Sierra, and this was the best single-keystroke method I found for such versions (tested on 10.6 Snow Leopard).įirst open Applications > Automator, choose the "Service" template, set "Service recieves" to "no input", enable "Replaces selected text", doubleclick the "Run Applescript" action, replace its contents with the following: on run I used Automator to make a Service workflow, and Keyboard System Preferences to give it a combo keystroke. Option::KEYTOKEY_AFTER_KEYUP, Ke圜ode::SPACE, ModifierFlag::OPTION_L, ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L, Ke圜ode::VK_WAIT_100MS, Option::KEYTOKEY_BEFORE_KEYDOWN, Ke圜ode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_GREEK, Ke圜ode::VK_WAIT_100MS, Remap.change_input_source_temporary_greek_option_r One might add a customized remapping by modifying a copy of the original source to get it working without disabling the Spotlight shortcuts: Ĭhange input source temporaryĬhange input source to Greek while you are holding down right option key. I had to turn off the Spotlight shortcuts in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Spotlight. In Lion this doesn't work properly and interferes with Spotlight. Karabiner/KeyRemap4MacBook offer a remapping of the right Option/alt key to temporarily switch to the greek keyboard layout in the presets (the greek keyboard layout has to be enabled): US, Greek, Hex) you may add a second keyboard shortcut "Select previous source in input menu" and hit that one to get back or you have to rotate through all your layouts with the "Select next source in input menu"-shortcut until you reach your common layout again. If you have more than two keyboard layouts enabled (e.g. and switch back to your common keyboard layout with Shift Alt Spacebar. To type α/β/γ/ε etc., you just have to switch the keyboard layout with Shift Alt Spacebar, hit A/B/G/E etc.
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