Tag: KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Spacecraft Films took raw footage (shot at 500 frames per second) from the Apollo 11 launch and converted it to HD last year. 30 seconds in real time gets converted ...

The Amazon Kindle2 offers dozens of useful keyboard shortcuts, but here are a few of the particularly nifty ones: To take a screen shot, hit Alt+Shift+G. A .gif file will appear in your Documents folder, which you can access when connected to a computer. Play Minesweeper by hitting Shift+Alt+M from the Home page. Hit M to mark, R to restart, and use the controller to move around. Refresh ...

When cruising e-mail on your BlackBerry, rather than scrolling relentlessly to get back to the beginning of a long message, tap the letter T and you'll be popped instantly to the top. Hit N and you'll go the next e-mail in your in box; hit P and you'll see (you guessed it) the previous one. ...

Among the many "secret" keyboard shortcuts on a Mac are a couple that are a boon to the spelling-challenged. To quickly spell-check a word you're typing, begin typing the word and then hit Option+Esc. A list of words will pop up, a la your cell phone's predictive text function. Although it works in most Mac apps, it sadly doesn't in either Office or Firefox. To find the definition of a word, ...

Rather than opening your Palm Pre's Card View function to sort through all of your open apps, you can simply swipe back and forth between running apps. Go to the Launcher and select Screen & Lock. Under the heading 'Advanced Gestures,' slide the Switch Applications option from Off to On. Now, when you have several apps open, you can swipe left across the length of the gesture area to ...

If you're the type to spawn tons of new tabs or windows in a browser rather than use the previous/next page buttons, there's a quick way to toggle through them using keyboard commands. To toggle between several open Web browser windows: Command (which is the Apple key) + ` (the one just below the Esc button) To toggle between several open tabs in a Web browser's window: Control + Tab ...

If you need the content of a Web page but can't be bothered to cut and paste text, or want to memorialize your amazing word stack on Bananagrams, use your iPhone's built-in ability to take screenshots. Hold down the Home button, and then press and release the Sleep button (on top). Once you hear the familiar shutter sound effect, you'll be able to access your new snaps in your Photos collection. ...

Instantly jump to the top of almost any scrollable iPhone app by tapping the status bar at the top of the screen (where the clock is). It's especially handy for when you scroll 195 messages deep into your e-mail inbox and want to go to your newest message again. It works in virtually every Apple-branded app (and some third-party ones, as well), and works in contacts, Safari Web pages, and ...