Tag: KEYBOARDSHORTCUTS

Sometimes a really interesting piece of software slips through the cracks here at Download Squad head office, and we miss covering it when it was first released. Sometimes when that happens, it's worth going back and pointing out what we missed. Though it was released back in February, we have somehow up until now neglected to mention the experimental New York Times Article Skimmer, and for that ...

In a mouse driven world we often forget just how much you can accomplish using only a keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts are a quick and easy way to up your PC productivity, and memorizing a slew of them can be incredibly helpful. Smashing Magazine has compiled a monster list of 200 keyboard shortcuts for some very popular applications and the Windows OS itself. Worth printing out and saving for ...

Stephen Mack is director of TiVoCast operations for, you guessed it TiVo. He's also a keyboard shortcut guru. As he points out, the less often you have to reach for the mouse, the less strain you put on the wrist, and the quicker you can get your work done at your computer. After getting a few requests for keyboard shortcut tips from his coworkers, Mack went and set up a new blog. Sure, there are ...

For power users (read: those of us who sit in front of a computer for 8+ hours a day), keyboard shortcuts can be a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that using the keyboard is much quicker than using the mouse or trackpad. The curse, of course, is repetitive stress disorder, but that's not what this post is about. If you want to assign a shortcut to a particular task (for me, it's "Crop" in ...