Tag: SHORTCUTS

When you insert a USB flash drive or removable storage like a CD or SD card into a Linux computer, you'll often see a shortcut pop up on your desktop. When you do the same thing in Windows, you probably see an often-annoying pop up menu asking what you'd like to do with your removable media. Desktop Media is a small Windows app that brings up a Linux-like desktop shortcut whenever you insert ...

Utility Launcher is a free Windows application that lets you create an ordered list of Windows utilities to launch. If you have a couple of apps that you launch every day, but don't want to add them to the Windows startup routine and bog down your boot speed, Utility Launcher could come in handy. Here's how it works. You download and unzip the application to any folder. Then click the menu ...

Wizmo is a handy little utility that lets you create desktop shortcuts for a handful of useful Windows system functions. Here's how it works. You download the tiny (40kb) Wizmo.exe file to your computer. then right click on Wizmo to create a shortcut. Add a modifier to your shortcut for the task you want to perform. Then when you click on your shortcut, you can perform that action. For example, ...

You know that shortcut icon on your desktop for a program you could have sworn you uninstalled ages ago? Yeah, you'd delete it, but when you click the icon, it actually launches the program, which means it's still hiding somewhere on your PC, it just doesn't show up in the add/remove programs dialog. There are a couple of ways to figure out where the link is pointing. You could right click the ...

Vista Shortcut Manager is one of those little applications that doesn't really do much of anything, but what it does do, it does well. While the name may conjure up a program that gives you advanced controls over your shortcut behavior, and perhaps even a list of shortcuts on your PC, the program really just does one thing. It lets you change the default icon behavior of your shortcuts in ...

Like any normal human being with a computer, you probably use your USB jacks, and according to OS market-share statistics, you're machine is probably some flavor of Windows. So you're probably familiar with having to click that annoying little icon to bring up the SRH (Safely Remove Hardware) dialog box when you need to disconnect a USB device, but it's possible to make the disconnect process a ...

It happens to everyone, and it's annoying. Sometimes the wrong tab gets closed in Firefox, but it's OK. There's a solution to the problem, and it comes in the form of CTRL + SHIFT + T in Windows or COMMAND + SHIFT + T in Mac OS X. We've covered other solutions in the past such as Unclosetab, a Firefox extension that adds a right-click option to reopen a closed tab. Another easy way to reopen a ...

Gmail has unleashed a new shortcut for you to really keyjockey your way through your e-mail: the "e" shortcut. What does the magnificent "e" do, you ask? Well it... archives. "But there already was an archive shortcut, "y" - why do we need another archiving shortcut?!" If this is the sentiment that you currently hold in your heart, let us explain. What "y" actually means is "remove from current ...

Getting around Wikipedia could take shorter than you have been previously use to. For instance, do you know about the keyboard shortcuts? Keyboard shortcuts aren't a well known feature for users of the popular online encyclopedia, but they do exist. I recently came across a post by Steve Rubel reminding me of this fact. These keyboard shortcuts work with any browser, and on both PC and Mac ...

Ever wish you had a simple 1-page sheet with keyboard shortcuts for Firefox, WordPress, or Excel? How about a simple set of DOS, Linux, Unix, or Windows commands? TechTarget has put together what may be the coolest cheat sheet ever. It's a page with links to dozens of excellent cheat sheets on topics including blogging, browser shortcuts, HTML/XHMTL, programming, and even internet slang. The list ...

Use Thunderbird for your desktop email needs? Wish it were more like Gmail? I bid you take a look at GMailUI. It's an extension for Thunderbird that aims to import some of the best features from Gmail. No, I'm not talking about conversation view (it will be a glorious day when every mail client offers that as an option), unfortunately. First of all, it steals Gmail's archive paradigm, allowing you ...

Do you switch your Windows Mobile device to landscape mode every time you open a web browser? Would you like a way to make sure your PDA never shuts off when you're reading an e-book, even if you haven't pushed a button in a while? CommManagerPlus is a program that lets you create application shortcuts on a PDA. But it also allows you to assign properties to those shortcuts. You can create a ...

Today, Ryan Kennedy demonstrated why he's the right guy to be the Yahoo! Mail Beta evangelist. One of the best-kept secrets within the new Yahoo! Mail Beta have been the search shortcuts. We've learned a little about them from Josh here and in Ryan's post today at the Y! Mail Updates blog. But the frosting on the cake is the complete reference page provided here. Ryan promises this will be updated ...

In case you're of the opinion that finding a list of keyboard shortcuts for whatever Google web app you happen to be using right now, you should bookmark this master list of keyboard shortcuts, which has all the hotkeys for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Video, Google Local, and even Writely all on one page. Handy! ...