The thing about touch typing is that as a skill it is ignored and underrated. Granted you’ll learn it automatically if you use the computer for 14 hours a day for a few months (or may be a year) but if you invest some time in learning it consciously, you’ll find that it goes a [...]
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If you remember our article on pronouncing names, we talked about how certain names, like José are pronounced differently. Now, we covered the pronunciation part, but how do you actually type these Spanish accents on your keyboard? How do you get that mark to appear over “e” in “José “ ? Those who’ve been playing [...]
Danny, one of our readers, came up with some cool drag and drop keyboard shortcut combination for Windows 7 (and may be Vista and XP too). Here’s his comment on our killer keyboard shortcuts article: If the normal function of a drag & drop is to MOVE a file (e.g. between folders within the same [...]
Our Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts article spread like wild fire after being published. It was clear from the sheer number of visitors and comments it received that people liked the shortcuts mentioned and found them useful. Hence we thought why not figure out ways to have similar shortcuts on Windows XP too. If you are [...]
One of my personal favorites among the new features that Windows 7 came with was the introduction of some awesome and long awaited keyboard shortcuts. I personally use them as much as I can to save time, and I recommend the practice of using keyboard shortcuts to others too. This article talks about 15 really [...]
Windows offers a smart way to launch any application via keyboard shortcuts. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to launch any application by changing the property of application shortcut. Let’s take the example of Google Chrome here. You could use the same steps for other applications too. Here are the steps you have to perform. 1. [...]
If you are tired of toggling between the mouse and keyboard, and wish to use the keyboard more often to perform routine tasks, then it’s time you get yourself acquainted with keyboard shortcuts for different apps. Using keyboard shortcuts could significantly save time in the long run and hence make you more productive. And if [...]
