Posts Tagged ‘shortcuts’

Get More Out of Google Reader

If you’ve already gotten started with Google Reader, you’re probably ready for some advanced tips and tricks to make better use of this rather full-featured RSS client. Here’s what you need to do to become a real Google Reader power user.

Get Organized

Google Reader offers two effective ways to wrangle your feeds into order: folders and tags. (Google is inconsistent in its use of “folders” and “tags”… » Continue

July 20 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: googlereader, howto, rss, shortcuts, tip | 29 comments»

Use Google Beta Search Shortcuts from Firefox

Google Beta Shortcuts is the same Google search, but with some handy Google-Reader-like keyboard shortcuts.

Why not use this fantastic feature for all your searches? It’s a simple Smart Keyword function for Firefox that you may have already set up. But for those who haven’t, try it out and cut out a little bit more of that mouse.

Make Firefox Quick Search Use Google’s Beta Search Keys -… » Continue

July 10 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: google, shortcuts | 3 comments»

Keyboard Shortcuts for 13 Popular Web Services

If you still haven’t bothered to learn the keyboard shortcuts to your favorite web apps, here’s a post from Mashable that’ll get you started. They’ve covered the following:

Gmail

Google Reader

Google Calendar

Google Maps

Google Video

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Netvibes

Wikipedia

Blogger

Remember The Milk

Pandora

Yahoo Mail

Wordpress

230+ Keyboard Shortcuts for Top Web Services - [Mashable]… » Continue

July 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: keyboard, shortcuts | 1 comment»

Quick .com Address Bar Shortcut

A friend of mine had an idea for a USB device to extend a ‘.com’ button to the keyboard. This meant all the people typing ‘.com’ into address bars could save a few seconds and buy another silly gadget.

The dream has been shattered. Maybe you know this already, but most browsers already come with a keyboard shortcut for ‘.com’. Not only that, but ‘.net’ and ‘.org’ are also covered… » Continue

June 28 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: keyboard, shortcuts | 16 comments»

21 Keyboard Ninja Shortcuts

Website HowToGeek.com are good fans of the ole’ keyboard shortcut. If you don’t need to use the mouse, why would you? Kindly, they’ve put together a list of their favorite keyboard shortcut articles from their own site.

Look out for some Vista, Linux and web based additions.

Keyboard Ninja: 21 Keyboard Shortcut Articles - [HowToGeek]… » Continue

June 26 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: keyboard, shortcut, shortcuts | no comments»

Learn Keyboard Shortcuts with Keyboard Jedi

Keyboard Jedi is a simple piece of software that will help you, or someone who you know, learn the keyboard shortcuts for any program. It does this by overlaying a transparent box that displays every keyboard shortcut you hit during operation.

For me, this simple program operates in two modes:

1. Forced to Learn

By default, Keyboard Jedi will disable the mouse for the particular program. Now you must operate the… » Continue

June 12 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: keyboard, shortcuts | no comments»

101 Keyboard Shortcuts

Lifehack.org writer, Leo Babauta, has compiled a nice selection of keyboard shortcuts for a variety of apps at DumbLittleMan.

He goes from Firefox, Gmail and Google Reader to Windows, Mac OS and Microsoft Office software.

Quick FTP. For quick and dirty FTP, Cmd-K will open the Connect to Server command.

Productivity Ninja: 101 Ways to Rock the Keyboard - [DumbLittleMan]… » Continue

May 23 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: keyboard, keystrokes, shortcuts | 1 comment»

15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever

Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.

But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master… » Continue

May 11 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: firefox, internet, online, shortcuts, Technology | 328 comments»

Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts Updated

Recently the Gmail Team updated the list of keyboard shortcuts for the online email client. There’s quite a few new ones such as shortcuts for Mute, Save Draft and Delete plus a few others.
m - Mute

Archives the conversation, and all future messages skip the Inbox unless sent or cc’d directly to you. Learn more.

u - Return to conversation list

Refreshes your page and returns you to the inbox, or list… » Continue

April 12 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gmail, keyboard, shortcuts | 2 comments»

Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day

Stephen Mack, director of Tivo’s TivoCast operations (and keyboard shortcut guru), recently launched a blog that will give a Windows keyboard shortcut tip everyday. Since the blog is brand new there are only a few tips, but this looks to be a great resource to bookmark and visit regularly. Here are a few of the gems:

Ctrl+Left Arrow and Ctrl+Right Arrow: Move by word
Today’s tip is to… » Continue

February 26 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: keyboard, Productivity, shortcuts | 12 comments»

Quick tip: Mouseless browsing in Firefox

In a follow up to his post yesterday about how to navigate Outlook without using the mouse, The Cranking Widgets Blog posted a list of useful keyboard shortcuts to browse the Web using Firefox without using the mouse. The following are the most useful and the most commonly used, in my opinion:

Put the Cursor in the Address Bar: Ctrl+L
Put the Cursor in the

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February 2 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: firefox, Productivity, shortcuts | 6 comments»

Gmail Shortcuts

I was looking for something just like this yesterday, and here it is: shortcuts for the keyboard when using Gmail. It’s also in an easy-to-print formatting to boot. Hey cool!

Gmail Shortcuts - [evhead]… » Continue

September 4 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: evhead, gmail, howto, shortcuts | 1 comment»