Emoticons have become some of the most commonly used symbols when communicating using computers and cell phones. Starting with combinations of text characters, smilies evolved into emoticons with the development of Unicode fonts that include complementary images for common smilies. For instance, applications like iMessage and iChat in OS X will make use of emoticons, automatically substituting an image of a smiling face from an emoticon font if you enter the ":)" text for a standard smile.
If there are other emoticons you often use, then you can use the system preferences to set up your own global text substitutions to quickly access them in multiple programs. Alternatively you can make use of the system's character palette to have quick access to the available emoticons and other symbols.
Emoticons in file names can be fun ways to label your documents and folders.
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While useful for enhancing e-mails, chats, and other forms of communication, OS X also supports the use of emoticons and other symbols in file names. This offers a unique way of naming files since it allows you to characterize and search for them using images instead of only alph... [Read more]
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