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09/18/2008 02:27:33 PM · #1 |
Here's a place to drop a cool SOFTWARE feature on DPC. Tell us something that most people probably don't know... I've suggested a format below.
Here's one I just recently found that I didn't know, in Firefox. It may have been there a while, but I only recently started using multiple windows with Firefox rather than all tabs. It seems to be a good setup if you have a lot of tabs, like I do, and you have multiple monitors!
IN: Firefox 3
YOU PROBABLY KNEW: That you can drag and drop tabs around to rearrange them
BUT DID YOU KNOW: You can drag and drop a tab from one window to the other, to move the tab in the other window! Cool! |
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09/18/2008 07:32:41 PM · #2 |
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09/18/2008 07:36:43 PM · #3 |
here is one that i am surprised more people dont know:
In Firefox and IE you can type in the name of a website then hold ctrl while pressing enter and it will add the www and .com automatically.
example: just type in the word 'google' in the address bar and hold down ctrl while pressing enter |
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09/18/2008 07:36:44 PM · #4 |
LOL Neil.
A lot of people probably think that what they would post people already know so they don't bother.
Good tip on FF. I usually only have one FF window open.
What I like is the fact you can save your tabs so the next time you open FF all your previous tabs are there.
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09/18/2008 08:42:07 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by smardaz:
here is one that i am surprised more people dont know:
In Firefox and IE you can type in the name of a website then hold ctrl while pressing enter and it will add the www and .com automatically.
example: just type in the word 'google' in the address bar and hold down ctrl while pressing enter |
You can also set up a second one for .net .org .gov or whatever suffix you want to be entered when you press CTRL+Shift+Enter (Tools > Internet Options, General Tab > Langauges button) |
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09/18/2008 09:35:46 PM · #6 |
The tab rearranging and dragging tricks are true in Safari as well (Mac), so is typing the domain without "www" and ".com" (on the Mac both Safari and Firefox add the rest without the need for modifier keys).
I use only tabbed browsing; I can't stand multiple windows (feels like a loss of control).
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09/18/2008 10:06:07 PM · #7 |
are we allowed to do ANY program? if so...
in: windows explorer (or other folder for that matter)
instead of right clicking a file and selecting rename (or clicking once and moving the mouse a little then reclicking) click it then hit F2 like when your editing a field in excel. May not seem like a real shortcut but sometimes I hate moving from the keyboard to the mouse a lot so it helps. I often also use the tab key and space bar to flow around a website |
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09/18/2008 10:32:30 PM · #8 |
| if you have the new windows xp update SP3 you can click the middle mouse button down (by default) and it tiles all open windows and the desktop (like vista), and if you hold the windows button down and hit tab (like alt-tab) it scrolls through the screens all fancy (assuming you have aero or whatever it's called) |
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09/18/2008 10:39:48 PM · #9 |
In Windows Vista, I find it annoying that if I click START -> SHUT DOWN, the next dialog defaults to "Sleep" instead of "shut down."
But if you go to CONTROL PANEL -> POWER OPTIONS -> HIGH PERFORMANCE -> CHANGE PLAN SETTINGS -> CHANGE ADVANCED POWER SETTINGS, you can choose "Start Menu Power Button," and set it to "shut down" by default. |
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09/19/2008 11:45:27 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by alanfreed:
In Windows Vista, I find it annoying that if I click START -> SHUT DOWN, the next dialog defaults to "Sleep" instead of "shut down."
But if you go to CONTROL PANEL -> POWER OPTIONS -> HIGH PERFORMANCE -> CHANGE PLAN SETTINGS -> CHANGE ADVANCED POWER SETTINGS, you can choose "Start Menu Power Button," and set it to "shut down" by default. |
I don't have vista but that is cool...I wonder if trick this would work in vista too...
on my work computer they don't like us to shut down, just log off so I created a shortcut on my desktop to this:
%windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -l then setup a shortcut key of ctrl-F2. Now I can just hit that and it will automatically log me off. You can change the -l to -s for auto shutdown too. |
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09/19/2008 11:50:53 AM · #11 |
| In OSX some of the most useful keystrokes I've found are F3 to show all windows, F6 to show all spaces, cmd-arrow to move between spaces. And in the F6 mode you can drag windows between spaces. Very useful. Oh, and pressing F6 followed by F3 just looks cool... :) And shift-F3 does the same, but in slow motion. |
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09/20/2008 01:58:22 AM · #12 |
In Opera, hold right mouse button then scroll your wheel - back for last tab, forward for next. There are probably a hundred other tips and tricks I use daily, but I won't bore you with them.
Oh and Opera is a web browser and it absolutely walks all over Firefox. Firefox fans - if you have tried Opera and still prefer Firefox, I'm surprised but whatever takes your fancy. If you use Firefox but haven't tried Opera - give it a go.
I am a webdesigner and therefore use all browsers for testing purposes, and I can say without a doubt that this browser is far superior to anything else out there.
www.opera.com |
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09/20/2008 03:01:22 AM · #13 |
A great piece of software I use everyday is Virtual Dimension a desktop manager which allows you to simulate having more than one monitor.
You can click between desktops with either the mouse or a pre-determined key combination.
I often have dpchallenge open on one desktop, an image editing program on another and open office on another. If for example I am doing a image editing tutorial I can have the tutorial open on one desktop then switch to the other desktop to practice then back to read some more and so on... There's no limit to the amount of desktops you can have.
One of the great benefits is that it does away with minimizing and maximizing windows all the time because they stay there on their respective desktops ready to use. |
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09/20/2008 12:52:09 PM · #14 |
I've been having all sorts of problems with my Mac over the past few months, it slowed down to a crawl. Finally had to clone my system drive over to another drive and that cured it.
Unfortunately, when I got the Mac, I wasn't able to figure out (for Leopard) how to follow my general rule for PCs: don't keep your "home" folder--wherever you keep your data and where programs store configuration files--on the system disk. Keep them on a separate drive, or even partition (though that's not as good), and that helps with reinstalls, and backups.
But as I spent all day yesterday trying to recover my Mac (the system drive was responding like a computer from 1983), I finally found the tip to move your home folder to another drive in Leopard.
How to Move the Home Folder in OS X - and Why |
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