{"id":15200,"date":"2016-04-11T20:42:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=15200"},"modified":"2016-04-11T20:42:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T20:42:05","slug":"lifestyle-texting-long-press-for-other-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-texting-long-press-for-other-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle:  texting:  long-press for other symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor reveals why it might be easier to type x<sup>4<\/sup> on your smart phone than from a desktop keyboard.<\/h1>\n<p>Trying to send a text that mentioned a dollar amount today, it seemed that, on my Nexus 4, only the \u00a3 currency symbol was offered.  Without a dollar sign visible on the keyboard, what was I to do?<\/p>\n<p>From my desktop computer I quickly searched <em>how to get dollar sign on nexus 4 phone when texting<\/em>, then selected <a href=\"http:\/\/heresthethingblog.com\/2013\/01\/22\/6-essential-android-typing-tips\/\">this article<\/a>.  It explains that, with a long-press, other related symbols show up for some keys.  I long-pressed the \u00a3 sign to find the $ sign in a pop-up menu.<\/p>\n<p>Pressing the 4 key, I received the option <sup>4<\/sup>.  Therefore, x<sup>4<\/sup> may be more easily texted from a smartphone than typed from a home desktop.  Neat, eh?<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor reveals why it might be easier to type x4 on your smart phone than from a desktop keyboard. Trying to send a text that mentioned a dollar amount today, it seemed that, on my Nexus 4, only the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/lifestyle-texting-long-press-for-other-symbols\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifestyle:  texting:  long-press for other symbols<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1559,458],"tags":[1560,1561],"class_list":["post-15200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-smartphones","category-technology","tag-dollar-sign-from-nexus-4-keyboard","tag-other-symbols-on-nexus-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15200"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15209,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15200\/revisions\/15209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}