Keyboard shortcuts are the ish nizzle, they speed up your computing,
they simplify navigation, they’re old school. If you can’t navigate your
filesystem/computer without touching your mouse, then you aren’t as cool
as me, and that’s the straight dope. I’m writing this because I saw an
article today on the lifehacker website about mastering the windows key. All the article really
was was this video. Actually, the video was kind of
inaccurate. Sure, it’s true that you use Windows Key+Pause/Break key to
bring up System Properties, but what if you don’t have a combo
pause/break key? Well, if you’re using XP you use WINDOWS_KEY+Pause and
if you’re using windows vista you use WINDOWS_KEY+break.
Another
thing about keyboard shortcuts is that you can make a keyboard
shortcut for any program (or shortcut to a program) on your desktop by:
(1) Right-clicking the icon (2) Clicking properties (3) clicking inside
the shortcut input field and (4) pressing the key that you want to use
in conjunction with Ctrl and Alt for your shortcut (i.e. if I were to
click in the shortcut input box and press, “f” the shortcut to bring up
the program would be “Ctrl+Alt+f”).
To learn more interesting
shortcuts please check out the following:
- Windows XP Keyboard Shortcuts
- Windows Vista Keyboard Shortcuts
- Ubuntu Linux Keyboard Shortcuts [via the Only Ubuntu Linux Blog]
- Firefox, Opera, and IE Keyboard Shortcuts
So that about wraps this little post up. If you have any favorite shortcuts, dear reader, that you’d like to share, post them in my shoutbox, or email them to me.
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