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Del

How do I find Del and Tab on my Italian keyboard? Thank you.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 07:22, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Keyboard layout#Italian might be helpful. It appears the TAB key is in the US position. DEL is not in the main block but maybe bottom left of a block of 6 above the arrow keys or may be achievable on the key to the rightof the number pad zero. Try [1]. -- SGBailey (talk) 10:01, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

If you're looking for ∇ (Del) - and not the "delete" key - you'll need an input method extension because most keyboards do not have a key for del. Nimur (talk) 15:36, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Ha! -- interesting interpretation...If you want native hardware ∇, I'd recommend FRONT-3 on a Space-cadet_keyboard ([2]) SemanticMantis (talk) 02:52, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Another option is peck and see. I had a prototype keyboard once and all the letters came off the keys in no time flat. A good way to learn where all the keys are rather than looking for them. ;-) Dmcq (talk) 09:42, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

iPad bookmarking

How do I bookmark Safari web pages on my iPad please?85.211.205.123 (talk) 11:52, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Navigate to the page you wish to bookmark. Click the 'share' button (picture) then 'Bookmark'. Now edit the title and address of the bookmark (if required) and click 'save'. Your bookmark will then be found in the list under the bookmark icon in the main menu bar. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 13:09, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Great stuff, thanks. What would we do without Wikipedia!?85.211.205.123 (talk) 19:17, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

All sorts of silly things... - Cucumber Mike (talk) 19:46, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

In Apple-speak, the button is called an "action button", although it does things like sharing. IBE (talk) 23:18, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Windows Installer

Error message

Any thoughts on what might be causing this error message whenever I try to update iTunes? And how I can fix it? I'm assuming there's a program somewhere on my computer called "Windows Installer" which is broken, but that's pretty much where my grasp of the problem stops. AndyJones (talk) 21:09, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

You could try uninstalling the existing version first, then installing the newer version with a somewhat fresher directory structure. ¦ Reisio (talk) 21:21, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Do you mean uninstall the installer? Or uninstall iTunes? Because if the latter, I'm worried that if my installer isn't working I won't be able to reinstall iTunes, leaving me without it altogether! AndyJones (talk) 22:09, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Windows Installer is reporting the problem; it's (probably) not the cause of it. Unfortunately, the error message is totally generic and unhelpful. There must be more details in a log somewhere, but I'm not sure where. You might have to enable logging. Or you could do as it suggests and ask Apple about it (or at least ask on an iTunes support board). -- BenRG (talk) 23:33, 12 March 2013 (UTC)