Mac Geekery

Caps Lock is no longer useful. It was really useful on the typewriter and the author wanted to either make the header of a letter or was really pathetically lazy and wanted to get the whole thing out without messing with proper capitalization. In the computer world, it had its various uses early on when a good deal of things were done primarily in uppercase. Those times, alas, are long gone and the key needs to die a horrible death. While it once mattered, its existence on keyboards today is just a holdover from an evolutionary past, much like the appendix or Bob Dole.

Thus, it is only fitting to excise it from your life and stop letting it mess up everything you type by rANDOMLY TURNING ON WHEN YOU GET NEAR THE A key and your pinky goes flying.

Go to System Preferences → Keyboard & Mouse → Keyboard. Once there, click on Modifier Keys… and pick “No Action” from the pop-up near Caps Lock. You’ll notice that the option will dim, now that it’s off, and no matter how much you hit the key the light will stay off. Now it’s dead.

The immediate-thinker will do this to his own computer if he never uses the key. The forward-thinker will do this to a friend or loved one’s computer if they won’t stop.