Via Paul Boag
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- You will need to locate the OS X Lion installation package on your Mac. The easiest way to do this is to Option + click its icon on your dock and choose Options>Show in Finder.
- Once you’ve located the package, Option + click it and choose Show Package Contents.
- Open the folder titled ‘SharedSupport’ and find a file called ‘InstallESD.dmg’. This file contains everything you need to boot up a computer and install OS X Lion. Drag this file out to your desktop or another easy to find location.
- At this point, if you just want to make a DVD, open up Disk Utility on your Mac, find this image in the list on the left, Option + Click on it and click ‘Burn’. You’ll have a bootable DVD.
- Now prepare a USB thumb drive at least 8GB in size by opening up the Disk Utility application on your Mac, plugging it in and choosing to Partition it in a 1 Partition scheme. Note that this process will erase your thumb drive, so make sure you’ve backed it up.
- Highlight the single partition and use the pull-down menu to select ‘GUID Partition Table’ as the type and click ok.
- Name the USB drive anything that you would like, make sure that the Format option is set to ‘Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and click the Apply button.
- Now, click on your new partition and click on the Restore tab at the top right. In the Source section, click on Image and choose the ‘InstallESD.dmg’ file from step 3.
- Make sure that the Destination field displays the name of your USB drive and click Restore. You will be prompted to enter the password for your Administrator account. Once you’ve done so the copying process will begin.
- Once the process is complete, you can verify the bootable status of your drive by selecting it and clicking Info in Disk Utility. Bootable status should show ‘Yes’.
Now that you have a bootable USB drive (or DVD) that contains OS X Lion, you can boot from it by plugging it in to any Mac and holding down the Option key while its booting. Once the screen appears that asks you which volume to boot from, choose the bootable OS X Lion drive. This will enable you to install OS X Lion on any compatible Mac without using the standard upgrade procedure. If you’re the kind of user who likes to perform a clean install instead of an upgrade, this is a great option for you.
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Firefox have just updated their nightly builds to 7.0a1 and if you want to continue to use your existing Addons, you will be aware that some gentle browser hacking is required.
However, the usual Firefox hack involving extensions.checkCompatability.x now fails. I tried the following entries and the Nightly build ignored them
However, a great post from Daniel, discusses how to solve the problem.
To get your Addons working under Nightly 7.0a1:
- Open a new tab.
- Type about:config in the address bar.
- Right click anywhere on the page and click on Boolean under New.
- Enter this as the preference name: extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly
- Click OK.
- Choose false and then click OK again.
- Restart your browser and all your add-ons should be runnable again.
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Ctrl + T (Open A New Tab) – Instead of right clicking and selecting or clicking the New Tab option, using the Ctrl + T keyboard shortcut will help you open a new tab in the current window.
Ctrl + W (Close the Current Tab) – Like Opening a New Tab in your browser, this will help you to Close the Current Tab you are working with.
Ctrl + N (Open A New Window) – This will help you to open up a new window in your browser.
Ctrl + D (Bookmark Current Website) – Bookmark your useful websites using this easy shortcut.
F5 ((Refresh)) – Refresh the Current Open Tab.
Ctrl + F5 (Hard Refresh) – Clear the cache of the current stored webpage and stores a fresh new copy. That’s what a hard refresh is for. Helpful when just posted comments don’t appear etc.
Ctrl + H (Show History) – You know it! Show the history of previously visited webpages.
Ctrl + L or Alt + D or F6 (Not For Opera) (Highlight Search Bar) – No need to move your mouse and click on the address bar to type a websites address in your browser again. Just use this quick shortcut.
Ctrl + E (Highlight Search Bar) – This will move the cursor to the search bar. Save the time you move your mouse over to the search bar!
Ctrl + (+/-) (Zoom In/Out) – Zoom in or Zoom out the current pages.
Ctrl + F (Find) – Instantly find a particular text on the current page.
Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V (Copy/Paste) – I bet you already know this!
Home / End (Top / Bottom) – These will help you to go to the Top or Bottom of a Page
CTRL + Click (Not for Opera) (Open Link in Background) – Open a link in a Background Tab without interfering your work.
CTRL + U (Source) – View the source code of the current website.
CTRL + left Click (Save Images (Opera Only)) – In fact this is a really a very handy shortcut that will save time. Why need to right click on an image and select the Save Image… option? Just Hold down the Ctrl key and click the left mouse button.
CTRL + Shift + T or (CTRL + Z also works in Opera) (Restore Tab) – This will help you to quickly reopen or recover previously closed Tab easily.
Some Additional Time Saver Keyboard Shortcuts
In fact these are some really useful shortcuts to save your time and energy.
You can save a lot of time by excluding the www., .com , .org, .net etc. There are simple keyboard shortcuts that can do these jobs very easily. We actually need to enter the name of the website only in the address bar of the browser.
Enter name of the website in the address bar and press CTRL + ENTER to auto-complete http://www. and the .com/ parts automatically.
Likewise SHIFT+ENTER will auto-complete the .net domains and CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER auto-completes the .org
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This post lists a number of applications that I’m running on my Ubuntu laptop. I will add/remove applications over time, so this post is likely to be updated. I hope you find it useful.
Essentials
1. Install the Latest Updates
As with most modern operating systems, applying the latest updates should be top of the agenda list after installing Ubuntu. This can be achieved in two ways, either click on System > Administration > Update Manager. Alternatively, launch a Terminal window and the choose Applications > Accessories > Terminal.
Next enter in the following command:
sudo apt-get update
Enter your password if prompted. After the $ prompt, enter the following:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Enter Y if prompted to proceed.
2. Install Restricted Extras
Restricted updates contain a number of key enhancement to the system that Ubuntu are unable to ship as part of the distribution. However, there are key bits of software here including Adobe Flash Player, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (sun-java-jre) with Firefox plug-ins (icedtea), a set of Microsoft Fonts (msttcorefonts), multimedia codecs (w32codecs or w64codecs), MP3-compatible encoding (lame), FFMpeg, extra Gstreamer codecs, the package for DVD decoding.
Enter the following Terminal command to install these extras:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Again, enter your system password if prompted. You may need to do this going forward after running each sudo command!
3. Elementary Nautilus
Elementary-Nautilus is a cleaner and better looking version of nautilus. It also has a few extra features like embedded terminal, cover flow etc.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
4. GIMP
GIMP it a great app if you want to touch up some photos, edit some images etc.
Install it with:
sudo apt-get install gimp
5. Ubuntu Tweak
Ubuntu Tweak is a must have application for Ubuntu, it provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide.
Using Ubuntu Tweak you can install all needed applications with a simple click, you can change the window buttons from Left to right…etc.
Open terminal and enter the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
Bonus! Also try Ailurus:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ailurus/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ailurus
Security
6. Install a Firewall
Ubuntu isn’t prone to attacks as some other operating systems. However, I think it is worth installing nevertheless.
Enter the following Terminal command to install the firewall.
sudo apt-get install gufw
The firewall can be configured by navigating to System > Administration > Firewall Configuration
7. Antivirus
Generally speaking, Ubuntu users do not need install antivirus software. However, you can install the ClamTK Virus Scanner.
Enter the following Terminal command to install the client:
sudo apt-get install clamtk
8. Install Backup Software
Use the following Terminal command to install backup software
sudo apt-get install backintime-gnome
Media Players and Codecs
9. Media Player – VLC
Simply the best open source media player there is. It will play virtually any kind of media you can throw at it.
Enter the following Terminal command to install VLC
sudo apt-get install vlc
10. Arista Transcoder
Arista Transcoder makes it easy to convert your media files for use on all your devices. You just choose the device you have first and the file type.
sudo apt-get install arista
11. MPlayer
Another great media player worth installing is MPlayer
sudo apt-get install mplayer smplayer
12. AmaroK
AmaroK integrates with Wikipedia, lyrics and album cover look-ups! It should also sync with your iPod too
sudo apt-get install amarok
13. DVD Playback
Most commercial DVDs are encrypted with Content Scrambling System (CSS), which attempts to restrict the software that can play a DVD. You’ll need to install libdvdcss if you want to play them. Type the following Terminal command:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
Then enter:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
14. K9copy
K9copy is a free open source DVD backup, copying, compression, and authoring utility that requires libdvdcss. You can easily create MPEG-2. MPEG-4, or DVD videos with this utility. To install it type:
sudo apt-get install k9copy
15. DVD::RIP
DVD::Rip is a DVD backup/copy program, written in GTK-based perl, that uses the transcode video/audio processing and conversion tools. To install it type:
sudo apt-get install dvdrip rar
MSN Messenger Client
16. Emesene
Emesene is an MSN messenger client that uses a simplified interface similar to the original messenger client. To install it type:
sudo apt-get install emesene
FTP Clients
17. Filezilla
Filezilla is the ubiquitous free open-source FTP client and server for all platforms.
sudo apt-get install filezilla
Utilities
18. Webcam
Cheese is an Apple Photobooth inspired application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam.
sudo apt-get install cheese
19. Compiz Fusion
Compiz Fusion allows you to use interesting desktop effects such as a rotating cube desktop.
Run Applications > System Tools > Compiz Fusion Icon. A blue icon will appear in the tray. From here you can configure Compiz-Fusion.
20. Conky
Conky is a light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.
sudo apt-get install conky
21. Screenlets
Screenlets are small applications that are laying on your desktop. Eye c
sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-main\ compiz-fusion-plugins-extra emerald librsvg2-common fusion-icon
andy stuff and useful in many ways. Just type:
sudo apt-get install screenlets
Go to Applications > Accessories > Screenlets and choose the screenlet that you want click launch/add.
Additional screenlets can be downloaded from www.gnome-look.org or fromhttp://screenlets.org/index.php/Category:UserScreenlets
Web Browsers
22. Chromium
To add the repository, open the source list :
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add these 2 lines at the end of the sources.list
For Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu maverick main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
Open the terminal and add the GPG key
sudo sudo apt-key adv--recv-keys--keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Utilities
23. ntfs-3g
ntfs-3g allows you to read and write data to NTFS formatted drives and can be installing with the following command:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
Then type the following command:
gksu ntfs-config
24. Mount Windows Hard Drives on Startup
Mount your Windows HDD ‘s on Ubuntu startup with PySdm. You can install Pysdm with Ubuntu Software Center or with your terminal:
sudo apt-get install pysdm
Next run the app with
sudo pysdm
On the partition list you can found all of your hard drives. Click on the drive you want to mount, then on general preferences tab click Mount and apply. If the disks are not mounted on startup, start your Pysdm again and select Mount on startup options then apply. Be careful, don’t play with the rest options if you are not experienced user because you can damage yourUbuntu system.
25. Unrar
sudo apt-get -y install unrar
26. Beagle
Similar to Google Desktop Search and Mac OS Spotlight, Beagle offers a great desktop search tool for Ubuntu, and can be installed with the following command:
sudo apt-get install -y beagle
27. Gnome Deskbar Applet
The Gnome Deskbar Applet is a cross between Spotlight and Quicksilver. Basically it’s a great app launcher and then some, with plugins designed to integrate more search options than you can shake a stick at, from live Google searches to integration with Beagle.
To use the Deskbar Applet, right-click the top panel and select Add to Panel… and find Deskbar Applet (incidentally, there are a lot of other great tools in the Add to Panel… dialog worth checking out). It’s no Quicksilver, but it’s better than any app launcher/search tool available on Windows.
apt-get install deskbar-applet
28. UNetbootin
Unetbootin allows you to install Ubuntu from a USB Drive. Install the app with the following command:
sudo apt-get install unetbootin
29. Search App Explanation
apt-cache search xxxxx
(Where xxxxx is the name of app that you wish to learn more about).
30. Skype
sudo apt-get install skype
31. Clipboard
sudo apt-get install parcellite
32. Add/Remove App
The Add/Remove app is a great app for installing and removing applications. It can be easily installed, by following the instructions below:
Applications > Ubuntu Software Center then search for “Add/Remove”without quotes. Double click on Add/Remove Applications and hit install
33. Wine (Windows Compatibility Layer)
sudo apt-get install wine1.2
Blogging Clients
34. Lekhonee – A WordPress Client
sudo apt-get install lekhonee-gnome
ScreenSavers
35. Cool ScreenSavers
sudo apt-get install stellarium
Bittorrent
36. Bitorrent Client
sudo apt-get install deluge
Sun Java
37. Java Client
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
Email Readers
38. Thunderbird
Thunderbird from Mozilla is one of the best email client applications available, it can be installed with the following command:
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
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Chrome Shortcuts for Windows
Tab and window shortcuts
Ctrl+N
Opens a new window.
Ctrl+T
Opens a new tab.
Ctrl+Shift+N
Opens a new window in incognito mode.
Press Ctrl+O, then select file.
Opens a file from your computer in Google Chrome.
Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the link in a new tab in the background .
Press Ctrl+Shift and click a link. Or press Shift and click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the link in a new tab and switches to the newly opened tab.
Press Shift and click a link.
Opens the link in a new window.
Ctrl+Shift+T
Reopens the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
Drag a link to a tab.
Opens the link in the tab.
Drag a link to a blank area on the tab strip.
Opens the link in a new tab.
Drag a tab out of the tab strip.
Opens the tab in a new window.
Drag a tab out of the tab strip and into an existing window.
Opens the tab in the existing window.
Press Esc while dragging a tab.
Returns the tab to its original position.
Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8
Switches to the tab at the specified position number on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9
Switches to the last tab.
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown
Switches to the next tab.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp
Switches to the previous tab.
Alt+F4
Closes the current window.
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4
Closes the current tab or pop-up.
Click a tab with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Closes the tab you clicked.
Right-click, or click and hold either the Back or Forward arrow in the browser toolbar.
Displays your browsing history in the tab.
Press Backspace, or Alt and the left arrow together.
Goes to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab.
Press Shift+Backspace, or Alt and the right arrow together.
Goes to the next page in your browsing history for the tab.
Press Ctrl and click either the Back arrow, Forward arrow, or Go button in the toolbar. Or click either button with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the button destination in a new tab in the background.
Double-click the blank area on the tab strip.
Maximizes or minimizes the window.
Alt+Home
Opens your homepage in your current window.
Google Chrome feature shortcuts
Alt+F or Alt+E
Opens the wrench menu, which lets you customize and control settings in Google Chrome.
Ctrl+Shift+B
Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off.
Ctrl+H
Opens the History page.
Ctrl+J
Opens the Downloads page.
Shift+Esc
Opens the Task Manager.
Shift+Alt+T
Sets focus on the first tool in the browser toolbar. You can then use the following shortcuts to move around in the toolbar:
- Press Tab, Shift+Tab, Home, End, right arrow, and left arrow to move focus to different items in the toolbar.
- Press Space or Enter to activate toolbar buttons, including page actions and browser actions.
- Press Shift+F10 to bring up any associated context menu (e.g. browsing history for the Back button).
- Press Esc to return focus from the toolbar back to the page.
F6 or Shift+F6
Switches focus to the next keyboard-accessible pane, where panes include the main web content, address bar, and bookmarks bar (if visible).
Ctrl+Shift+J
Opens Developer Tools.
Ctrl+Shift+Delete
Opens the Clear Browsing Data dialog.
F1
Opens the Help Center in a new tab (our favorite).
Address bar shortcuts
Use the following shortcuts in the address bar:
Type a search term, then press Enter.
Performs a search using your default search engine.
Type a search engine keyword, press Space, type a search term, and press Enter.
Performs a search using the search engine associated with the keyword.
Begin typing a search engine URL, press Tab when prompted, type a search term, and press Enter.
Performs a search using the search engine associated with the URL.
Ctrl+Enter
Adds www. and .com to your input in the address bar and open the resulting URL.
Type a URL, then press Alt+Enter.
Opens the URL in a new tab.
Ctrl+L or Alt+D
Highlights the URL.
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E
Places a ‘?’ in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine.
Press Ctrl and the left arrow together.
Moves your cursor to the preceding key term in the address bar
Press Ctrl and the right arrow together.
Moves your cursor to the next key term in the address bar
Ctrl+Backspace
Deletes the key term that precedes your cursor in the address bar
Select an entry in the address bar drop-down menu with your keyboard arrows, then press Shift+Delete.
Deletes the entry from your browsing history, if possible.
Click an entry in the address bar drop-down menu with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the entry in a new tab in the background.
Press Page Up or Page Down when the address bar drop-down menu is visible.
Selects the first or last entry in the drop-down menu.
Webpage shortcuts
Ctrl+P
Prints your current page.
Ctrl+S
Saves your current page.
F5 or Ctrl+R
Reloads your current page.
Esc
Stops the loading of your current page.
Ctrl+F
Opens the find bar.
Ctrl+G or F3
Finds the next match for your input in the find bar.
Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3, or Shift+Enter
Finds the previous match for your input in the find bar.
Click the middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Activates auto-scrolling. As you move your mouse, the page automatically scrolls according to the direction of the mouse.
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5
Reloads your current page, ignoring cached content.
Press Alt and click a link.
Downloads the target of the link.
Ctrl+U
Opens the source of your current page.
Drag a link to bookmarks bar
Saves the link as a bookmark.
Ctrl+D
Saves your current webpage as a bookmark.
Ctrl+Shift+D
Saves all open pages as bookmarks in a new folder.
F11
Opens your page in full-screen mode. Press F11 again to exit full-screen.
Ctrl and +, or press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel up.
Enlarges everything on the page.
Ctrl and -, or press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel down.
Makes everything on the page smaller.
Ctrl+0
Returns everything on the page to normal size.
Space bar
Scrolls down the web page.
Home
Goes to the top of the page.
End
Goes to the bottom of the page.
Press Shift and scroll your mousewheel.
Scrolls horizontally on the page.
Text shortcuts
Ctrl+C
Copies highlighted content to the clipboard.
Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
Pastes content from the clipboard.
Ctrl+Shift+V
Paste content from the clipboard without formatting.
Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete
Deletes the highlighted content and copies it to the clipboard.
Chrome Shortcuts for the Apple Mac
Tab and window shortcuts
?-N
Opens a new window.
?-T
Opens a new tab.
?-Shift-N
Opens a new window in incognito mode.
Press ?-O, then select file.
Opens a file from your computer in Google Chrome.
Press ? and click a link. Or click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the link in a new tab in the background .
Press ?-Shift and click a link. Or press Shift and click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the link in a new tab and switches to the newly opened tab.
Press Shift and click a link.
Opens the link in a new window.
?-Shift-T
Reopens the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
Drag a tab out of the tab strip.
Opens the tab in a new window.
Drag a tab out of the tab strip and into an existing window.
Opens the tab in the existing window.
Press ?-Option and the right arrow together.
Switches to the next tab.
Press ?-Option and the left arrow together.
Switches to the previous tab.
?-W
Closes the current tab or pop-up.
?-Shift-W
Closes the current window.
Click and hold either the Back or Forward arrow in the browser toolbar.
Displays your browsing history in the tab.
Press Delete or ?-[
Goes to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab.
Press Shift-Delete or ?-]
Goes to the next page in your browsing history for the tab.
Press Shift while clicking the + button in the top left corner of the window.
Maximizes the window.
?-M
Minimizes the window.
?-H
Hides Google Chrome.
?-Option-H
Hides all other windows.
?-Q
Closes Google Chrome.
Google Chrome feature shortcuts
?-Shift-B
Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off.
?-Option-B
Opens the bookmark manager.
?-,
Opens the Preferences dialog.
?-Y
Opens the History page.
?-Shift-J
Opens the Downloads page.
?-Shift-Delete
Opens the Clear Browsing Data dialog.
Address bar shortcuts
Use the following shortcuts in the address bar:
Type a search term, then press Enter.
Performs a search using your default search engine.
Type a search engine keyword, press Space, type a search term, and press Enter.
Performs a search using the search engine associated with the keyword.
Begin typing a search engine URL, press Tab when prompted, type a search term, and press Enter.
Performs a search using the search engine associated with the URL.
Type a URL, then press ?-Enter.
Opens the URL in a new background tab.
?-L
Highlights the URL.
?-Option-F
Places a ‘?’ in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine.
Press Option and the left arrow together.
Moves your cursor to the preceding key term in the address bar
Press Option and the right arrow together.
Moves your cursor to the next key term in the address bar
Press Shift-Option and the left arrow together.
Highlights the preceding key term in the address bar
Press Shift-Option and the right arrow together.
Highlights the next key term in the address bar
?-Delete
Deletes the key term that precedes your cursor in the address bar
Press Page Up or Page Down in the addess bar menu.
Selects the previous or next entry in the menu.
Webpage shortcuts
?-P
Prints your current page.
?-Shift-P
Opens the Page Setup dialog.
?-S
Saves your current page.
?-Shift-I
Emails your current page.
?-R
Reloads your current page.
?-,
Stops loading of your current page.
?-F
Opens the find bar.
?-G
Finds the next match for your input in the find bar.
?-Shift-G or Shift-Enter
Finds the previous match for your input in the find bar.
?-E
Uses selection for find
?-J
Jumps to selection
?-Option-I
Opens Developer Tools.
?-Option-J
Opens the JavaScript Console.
?-Option-U
Opens the source of your current page.
Press Option and click a link.
Downloads the target of the link.
Drag a link to the bookmarks bar.
Saves the link as a bookmark.
?-D
Saves your current webpage as a bookmark.
?-Shift-D
Saves all open tabs as bookmarks in a new folder.
?-Shift-F
Opens your page in full-screen mode. Press ?-Shift-F again to exit full-screen.
?-+
Enlarges everything on the page.
? and -
Makes everything on the page smaller.
?-0
Returns everything on the page to normal size.
?-Shift-H
Opens your home page in your current tab.
Space bar
Scrolls down the web page.
?-Option-F
Searches the web.
Text shortcuts
?-C
Copies highlighted content to the clipboard.
?-Option-C
Copies the URL of the page you’re viewing to the clipboard.
?-V
Pastes content from the clipboard.
?-Shift-Option-V
Pastes content without source formatting.
?-X or Shift-Delete
Deletes the highlighted content and copies it to the clipboard.
?-Z
Reverts your last action.
?-Shift-Z
Repeats your last action.
?-X
Deletes highlighted content and saves it to your clipboard (cut).
?-A
Selects all the text on your current page.
?-:
Opens the Spelling and Grammar dialog.
?-;
Checks your current page for spelling and grammar
Chrome Shortcuts for Linux
Tab and window shortcuts
Ctrl+N
Opens a new window.
Ctrl+T
Opens a new tab.
Ctrl+Shift+N
Opens a new window in incognito mode.
Press Ctrl+O, then select file.
Opens a file from your computer in Google Chrome.
Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the link in a new tab in the background .
Press Ctrl+Shift and click a link. Or press Shift and click a link with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the link in a new tab and switches to the newly opened tab.
Press Shift and click a link.
Opens the link in a new window.
Ctrl+Shift+T
Reopens the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
Drag a link to a tab.
Opens the link in the tab.
Drag a link to a blank area on the tab strip.
Opens the link in a new tab.
Drag a tab out of the tab strip.
Opens the tab in a new window.
Drag a tab out of the tab strip and into an existing window.
Opens the tab in the existing window.
Press Esc while dragging a tab.
Returns the tab to its original position.
Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8
Switches to the tab at the specified position number on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9
Switches to the last tab.
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown
Switches to the next tab.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp
Switches to the previous tab.
Ctrl+Shift+Q
Closes Google Chrome.
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4
Closes the current tab or pop-up.
Click a tab with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Closes the tab you clicked.
Right-click, or click and hold either the Back or Forward arrow in the browser toolbar.
Displays your browsing history in the tab.
Press Alt and the left arrow together.
Goes to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab.
Press Alt and the right arrow together.
Goes to the next page in your browsing history for the tab.
Click either the Back arrow, Forward arrow, or Go button in the toolbar with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the button destination in a new tab in the background.
Double-click the blank area on the tab strip.
Maximizes or minimizes the window.
Google Chrome feature shortcuts
Alt+F
Opens the Tools menu, which lets you customize and control settings in Google Chrome.
Ctrl+Shift+B
Toggles the bookmarks bar on and off.
Ctrl+H
Opens the History page.
Ctrl+J
Opens the Downloads page.
Shift+Esc
Opens the Task Manager.
Ctrl+Shift+J
Opens Developer Tools.
Ctrl+Shift+Delete
Opens the Clear Browsing Data dialog.
F1
Opens the Help Center in a new tab (our favorite).
Address bar shortcuts
Use the following shortcuts in the address bar:
Type a search term, then press Enter.
Performs a search using your default search engine.
Type a search engine keyword, press Space, type a search term, and press Enter.
Performs a search using the search engine associated with the keyword.
Begin typing a search engine URL, press Tab when prompted, type a search term, and press Enter.
Performs a search using the search engine associated with the URL.
Ctrl+L
Highlights the URL.
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E
Places a ‘?’ in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine.
Press Ctrl+Shift and the left arrow together.
Moves your cursor to the preceding key term in the address bar
Press Ctrl+Shift and the right arrow together.
Moves your cursor to the next key term in the address bar
Ctrl+Backspace
Deletes the key term that precedes your cursor in the address bar
Select an entry in the address bar drop-down menu with your keyboard arrows, then press Shift+Delete.
Deletes the entry from your browsing history, if possible.
Click an entry in the address bar drop-down menu with your middle mouse button (or mousewheel).
Opens the entry in a new tab in the background.
Press Page Up or Page Down when the address bar drop-down menu is visible.
Selects the first or last entry in the drop-down menu.
Webpage shortcuts
Ctrl+P
Prints your current page.
Ctrl+S
Saves your current page.
Ctrl+R
Reloads your current page.
Esc
Stops the loading of your current page.
Ctrl+F
Opens the find bar.
Ctrl+G or Enter
Finds the next match for your input in the find bar.
Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+Enter
Finds the previous match for your input in the find bar.
Press Alt and click a link.
Downloads the target of the link.
Ctrl+U
Opens the source of your current page.
Drag a link to bookmarks bar
Saves the link as a bookmark.
Ctrl+D
Saves your current webpage as a bookmark.
Ctrl+Shift+D
Saves all open pages as bookmarks in a new folder.
F11
Opens your page in full-screen mode. Press F11 again to exit full-screen.
Ctrl and +, or press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel up.
Enlarges everything on the page.
Ctrl and -, or press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel down.
Makes everything on the page smaller.
Ctrl+0
Returns everything on the page to normal size.
Space bar
Scrolls down the web page.
Home
Goes to the top of the page.
End
Goes to the bottom of the page.
Text shortcuts
Ctrl+C
Copies highlighted content to the clipboard.
Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert
Pastes content from the clipboard.
Ctrl+Shift+V
Paste content from the clipboard without formatting.
Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete
Deletes the highlighted content and copies it to the clipboard.
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I’ve been using the latest Firefox 4 beta for over two months now and I like it a lot. In fact, since December 2010 I’ve been using it as my default browser and have even moved to using the Mozilla nightly builds which I have found to be robust.
Mozilla has made a number of changes to the upcoming release of Firefox that some users may like or not. One interesting change was to use Bing as the default search option in the address bar. Personally, I don’t mind it but there will be many other users who may prefer to use Google instead. By following the small tweak below, you can change the default provider from Bing to Google. Choice is life is always a good thing!
- In the Firefox address bar, type about:config
- In the filter box type in: keyword.url
- Next, double click on the highlighted keyword.URL entry
- Replace any text in the string box and replace with:
- Replace the text with the following:
http://www.google.com/webhp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 - Click Ok to save the new setting
Loading multiple tabs in Firefox can slow down the overall user experience. By design, Firefox runs three tabs in the background. But, there is a manual override to gain better performance.
- Locate browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs in the settings.
- Set the preference from 3 to 0. Essentially, It’s a built-in BarTab.
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Google is a very powerful search engine, however many of us only perform very basic searches. In the post, I discuss my favourite advanced searches that can be performed. This list was compiled from various sources on the web including various Google ‘cheat sheets’.
The Cache Command
Google takes a snapshot of each page it searches and caches (stores) that page as a back up. The cached version is what Google uses to judge if a web page is a good match for your search query.The cache command shows the cached snapshot of any page on the web. For example: Cache of http://www.thewebpitch.com. Google typically caches the first 101K of a page and not the images. Its a great way to discover how a web page looked before it was updated.
The Filetype Command
Google indexes more than just web pages, the filetype command is a great one to use if you need to identify a particular file type as part of your search. For example, here’s a search for PDFs that contain the word iPad. The command works equally well for PPTX, DOCX etc.
The Site Command
The site command restricts a Google key word search to a single site. For example, if I wanted to see all references to ‘Microsoft’ in my blog, I would type: site:www.thewebpitch.com Microsoft
This is a very handy command, especially if you looking for certain keyword on a web site that has no search capability. The site command can either include or remove the ‘www’ in a web domain, removing the www will show all the sub domains from the domain which Google has found.
The Link Command
Google’s link command lists pages which “link back” to the specified website. These links are also known as "inbound Links" or "IBLs". For example, here’s a link search for www.thewebpitch.com
In general terms, a site with more link backs is more of an authority than a site with fewer link backs. However, not all link backs are of equal ranking!
The Related Command
The related command allows you to find pages which discuss a similar topic to a website that you have already found. For example, here’s a related:www.thewebpitch.com search.
The Info Command
This command shows some limited information about a particular page that Google has in its index. Typically, the command shows the page snippet and title as well as links to the cache or related pages. For example, here’s an info search for www.thewebpitch.com
The Define Command
The define command displays Google’s glossary of definitions for a particular searched term, for example: define: Semantic Web results in definitions for ‘semantic web’ in a bullet point format with a link to the authoritative URL.
The Allintitle Command
This command restricts a Google search so that all the listed keywords must appear in a page’s title tag. For example: allintitle: apple iPad shows a good example of this.
The NCR Command
This command is particularly useful if you are abroad, and Google redirects your search page to the local country you are in. If you type /ncr after google address, no redirection is made. For example:
http://www.google.com/ncr = google.com
http://www.google.co.uk/ncr = google.co.uk
This should equally work for other countries.
Other useful search commands include:
The Allinurl Command
Restrict a search so that all of the keywords must appear in the page results. For example, here is a simple search for pages with 720p and video in their URLs.
The Allintext Command
Restrict a search so that all of the keywords must appear in the body text For example here is a simple search for pages with 720p and video in their body text.
Technorati Tags: Google Hacks,Google Search
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Microsoft launched its official Windows Live Messenger app for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch in the US, Canada, UK and France. A free download from the App store, Windows Live Messenger for iPhone is a slim downed version of its Windows desktop big brother.
Sharing is caring
As soon as you launch the Windows Live Messenger iPhone App, you are able to update your status on Windows Live and see the “social updates” from your friends. You can easily send text, emoticons, nudges, URLs and even photos with your IM messages.
The Hotmail icon (to the right of the status update area) displays new unread email messages. A quick tap on the icon, takes you to the mobile web version of Hotmail within the app itself. The Social tab aggregates all of the activities from your friends. You can filter the content by clicking on “status messages” or “photos” just to see that content. Clicking on the Friends tab, displays the familiar view that Windows Live users will already be accustomed to.
Chatting with friends is easy, by selecting the Chats tab you can easily see the flow of conversation. Notice, the new emoticons.
One of the cool new features of the iPhone is app, is the ability to include photos in your status messages. Creating a photo status message from your iPhone is straightforward. Either, take a new picture with your phone, or select one from your local album. Alternatively, you can also pick a photo from your Windows SkyDrive, if you have photos stored there. You can add labels or add annotations to your photos and even “style” them with the included photo effects feature
The app also provides push notification alerts, even when the app is closed.
One of the other interesting features, is that the Live Messenger app supports Multiple Points of Presence (MPOP). This means, I can keep my desktop version of Windows Live open and the continue to chat with my friends on the phone app. Updates appear in real time on the desktop client app. As you can in the picture below, Windows Live Messenger also shows you all of the locations that you are signed into, and allows you to easily sign out of them.
Overall, Windows Live Messenger for iPhone is a strong release and has already replaced many of the 3rd party services that I used previously to connect with friends on Windows Live.
Windows Live Messenger for the iPhone is available to download here
This was post was originally cross posted on liveside.net
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