This has been an increasingly popular reference page on the Macintosh Biblioblog. Lot’s of folks come here looking for the Mac key symbol for the alt key or the option key or the control key or the open apple key, or other standard symbols for the Macintosh keyboard.
Apparently it is a handy reference to have all the popular symbols for the special keys on the keyboard. Here they are more or less in order from left to right, including Unicode Hex code point references:

⎋	Escape	U+238B
⇥	Tab forward	U+21E5
⇤	Tab back	U+21E4
⇪	Capslock	U+21EA
⇧	Shift	U+21E7
⌃	Control	U+2303
⌥	Option (Alt, Alternative)	U+2325
	Apple symbol 1	U+F8FF
⌘	Command (Open Apple) 2	U+2318
␣	Space	U+2423
⏎ ↩	Return	U+23CE U+21A9
⌫	Delete back	U+232B
⌦	Delete forward	U+2326
﹖⃝	Help	U+003F & U+20DD
⇱ ↖ ↸	Home	U+21F1 U+2196 U+21B8
⇲ ↘	End	U+21F2 U+2198
⇞	Pageup	U+21DE
⇟	Pagedown	U+21DF
↑ ⇡	Up arrow	U+2191 U+21E1
↓ ⇣	Down arrow	U+2193 U+21E3
← ⇠	Left arrow	U+2190 U+21E0
→ ⇢	Right arrow	U+2192 U+21E2
⌧	Clear	U+2327
⇭	Numberlock	U+21ED
⌤	Enter	U+2324
⏏	Eject	U+23CF
⌽	Power	U+233D

For information on how to type or enter these symbols in your documents, have a look at Entering Unicode Text and Symbols.

1 The Apple symbol  is in the corporate private range and is only available in Mac fonts. It can be typed with Option+Shift+k ( ⌥⇧+k ).

2 For the history on the Apple key symbol/Command key symbol, have a look here.

(If any symbol isn’t displaying correctly, Unicode font replacement is the culprit. Everything tests great in latest versions of Safari and Firefox.

Last updated: 7/29/08

Should anyone need this in the future, the AppleScript I eventually created to accomplish the work for me:

tell application "iCal"
	set work_cal to calendar "Calendar"
	set eventList to events of work_cal
	repeat with anEvent in eventList
		set isAllDay to allday event of anEvent
		if isAllDay then
			delete every sound alarm of anEvent
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

To the authors: Thank you!

Most recent list:

• 0xED
• Sequential for when you need more than Preview to stare at images
• Growl
• Adium X
• VLC
• Chicken of the VNC
• CoRD: Remote Desktop for Mac OS X
• Xcode
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  • LustyExplorer
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Previous entries:

• TextWrangler

Presently, nub is tuned with the following parameters:

• replyrate = 1.00
• replynick = 50.00
• replymagic = 50.00
• speaking = 1
• learning = 1
• stealth = 0
• joininvites = 2
• magicwords = RCA stupid customer customers CU bot bots

The rest of the settings are specific to the bot itself, controlling access and control over it, what server to use, etc. These settings make the bot fairly quiet unless you say it’s name, or one of the words in the “magicwords” list, in which case there is a 50% chance that the bot will say something. Given that the bot learns from what it observes in the channel, uses that text as means to generate it’s statements, what it says is only sometimes intelligible, but often quite amusing.

While skynet and nub are very amusing at times, they are otherwise completely useless. n00b is, however, very useful. I have hacked in functions to take a ticket, bug, or knowledge base article number and provide a URL for the resource so you can easily load it in a web browser. n00b also has a database of quotes that the users in the channel have loaded into it over time, the ability to find–sometimes with questionable success–the weather for a location, statistics for the channel, a Russian Roulette game, and a number of other functions.

Both have their role, but there is an outstanding request for a stock ticker look up function. In addition to that, I would like to add a function to look up SCSI status codes and the related additional information, known as the Key Code Qualifier, as well as SCSI commands by the code value, such as 0×28 being a READ(10) command. The idea is that I could toss the bot something akin to 2/0 0×5 0×25 0×0 and the bot would return that this translated to a Check Unit Ready (0×2) returned by the device, with the sense data indicating that an Illegal Request (0×5) for an Invalid LUN (0×25 0×0) was received by the device.

These additions will require I spend some time programming. This is a good thing, especially since it has increased my desire to do so!

Worth1000 Tutorials, some are incredible and others not so much. The tutorials on making graffiti and Zebraceros are pretty high on the list.

eshark design has a number of tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator. Some of the better ones are where they walks through the creation of their logo and creating simple vector flowers in illustrator.

abduzeedo has some rather good tutorials, primarily for Photoshop but occasionally for GIMP, and other programs. All the tutorials are very well done. The overuse of words to describe how awesome, incredible, mind-blowing, etc. the effects they go over in the tutorial is very annoying, but thankfully the content usually makes up for it. The Case Study “Way to Heaven” write-up is also an excellent visual walk through on what can be accomplished by combining pictures to create a single end product.

psdtuts+ has some very good tutorials, including some submissions from abduzeedo but, it has the unfortunate state of being an ad-subsidized site that also charges a monthly subscription for access to some of their content. I will definitely need to try the tutorial from them on creating a furry jaguar style icon. The text label on the folder itself looked out of place, and I’ve finally figured out why; the author never changed the perspective for the “07″ label on the folder, causing it to look quite awkward.

I’ve saved the best for last!

Tutorial9 offers a large number of Photoshop tutorials of very good quality. The tutorial on creating a 3D poker chip in Photoshop looks quite interesting! So does the tutorial on Rendering a Realistic CD in Photoshop, as well as the subtle but beautiful Moon Shine Text Effect. There are also tutorials that cover the basics that you probably think you know, but really don’t. There is the overview of the toolbox, as well as Drawing and Type, Painting, Retouch and Healing, and Selection tools. There is even a post for Working with Layers in Photoshop! If nothing else, you can go through their post Getting Started in Photoshop.