Today’s shortcut is nice and simple. If you have multiple programs running on your computer, you can cycle through each one quickly to switch between them. While holding Alt, each press of the Tab button will cycle through one program. A little display pops up with a quick description of what program is currently selected. […]
Archive for July, 2007
The shortcut for today is another that helps in the realm of word processing and email composing. Ctrl+Del behaves similar to the normal delete function, but deletes an entire word rather than a single character. You might be noticing a pattern developing with the Ctrl button. There are plenty of shortcuts that use the Ctrl […]
My new project: Digital TV receiver and Video Recorder
Published by July 5th, 2007 in Internet, Hardware, Linux, Blog Post and Communication. 4 CommentsI’ve started a new project that should cut my bills down by a little more than $80 a month. I’ve heard a lot about building a DVR using a computer, essentially building a Media Center PC at home. I want to take it a step further and completely eliminate my cable TV bill. Most TV […]
Today’s shortcut is another one that’s great when doing any sort of text entry. Ctrl+Left or Right causes the cursor to move the desired direction by a full word (This is opposed to the normal Left or Right behavior of moving a single character). When writing up an email or a document of some kind, […]
I’m starting a new series to help get things going a bit. The shortcut of the day will be an outline of one keyboard shortcut every day. Keyboard shortcuts are useful because they cut down on the number of steps you need to know to get a desired result.
For example: sometimes you’ll need to know […]
