Some iPhone shortcuts to help you
No video, sound only
If you want to just listen to the audio track of a selected video. You can do it by first playing the video as per normal, then pressing the Home button. This will turn off the screen and the video. After that press the Home button once and followed by a Home button double-click. Now you should be listening to the audio with the screen off. This help to save battery also.
Take screen shots
Press and hold the Sleep button while tapping the Home button. The picture will be added to your camera roll.
Cancel the ring!!!
To mute your iPhone ring immediately, press the home or volume button.
Precision zooming
Hold down your thumb on the screen and then swipe your index finger back and forth.
Hold the key
Hold down the “@123″ button and sliding your finger to the required symbol, then releasing it. The qwerty keyboard will reappear.
Press and hold down the “.com” button and you will see options like “.org”, “.edu” & “.edu” appear on the screen.
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December 09 tech tips
All the tips i listed down here can find in Nov 19, 2009 digital life issue. For those who miss that issue i listed some below which i feel is the most useful.
Tech tips
1) Tabbing – Use Ctrl T for a new tab in both Firefox and Internet explorer. Use Ctrl W to close a tab then you can also hit Shift Ctrl T to reopen the closed tab. To go to address bar you can use Ctrl L to jump to there. For Firefox you can use Ctrl K to get into the search box. Lastly you can use the mouse center button to click on a link and it will open the site in a new tab.
2) Create a personal letterhead – Instead of keep on retyping the same on a word document (E.g contact number, name, etc) you can create a personal letterhead. Go to the template folder (look under Documents and settings in the local disk, usually the C drive). Click on a template icon (it has an orange bar across the top).
In the word template or master copy that opens, type in all the personal bits you want. For instance, name, cellphone number and e-mail at the top right corner of a header and an inspirational message in the footer. Add a visual if you like. Under file, select Save As and name the template, for example, seashell-lttrhd. Next, go back to the template in the template folder and right-click on it to Create Shortcut. Right-click on the shortcut and paste it on the desktop.
Now every time you double click on the Word icon on the desktop, your personalized letterhead pops up.
3) Never forget a task – use a sticky - Tired of seeing sticky note pasting all over your table or wall. You can download this Zhorn software. Install the program and it sits on the QuickLaunch bar. Click it once and a yellow window pops up. You are allow to create up to 32 stickies. Right-click the icon to manage the stickies, save them and lock them up if they are important so that you do not accidentally delete an important reminder. You also set a sound alarm to to alert you.
4) Create desktop shutdown icon – This is to teach you a slightly faster way to shutdown your PC. Right-click anywhere on the desktop and click on New then Shortcut. In the box, type: “shutdown -s -t 00″. Click Next. In the box called “Type a name for this shortcut”, type a brief name or leave the default “shutdown.exe” alone. Click Finish. Now you will see an icon says shutdown.exe on your desktop. If you want you can Right-click on it go to properties and change your icon. The next time you want to power down your PC it is just one double-click.
5) Exclusive search – Use a minus “-” in front of a word that you do not want it to appear in your search results. For example, you search for “Soccer news” you do not want to see Ronaldo news you can type this way “Soccer news -Ronaldo”.
6) Search for the right picture - Finding pictures that are safe for reuse or for reuse with modification can be quite difficult. One way is to go to www.google.com then go to the Advanced Image Search to narrow down the hunt and choose your preferred settings under Usage Rights.
7) Gmail shortcuts - Gmail’s have too many shortcut for one person to remember all. In fact there is just one easy-to-remember shortcut that you need to know. First, go to Settings, turn keyboard shortcuts on, save the changes and log out of Gmail. Then log in again, Hold down Shift, hit the question mark key and the entire menu of shortcuts will appear.
8 ) To control your browser - Useful shortcut key to control your browser. When you have several tabbed pages open in Firefox, Hit Ctrl+Tab to move the tab on the right or Hit Shift+Ctrl+Tab to move to the tab on the left. To add .com to a web address press Ctrl+Enter and to add .net press Shift+Enter. Using Ctrl+D will bookmark a site.
9) Creating subsidiary ID to your Gmail address- Lazy to create multiple account when ask to register in order for you to be able to access the site and afraid that you will start to receive spam email. By adding + and a word before the @ sign, you can create a subsidiary account. For example if your default Gmail address is anything@gmail.com and you want to use it to sign up for an online newsletters. You can do it in this way; anything+newsletters@gmail.com. Then go to Gmail to setup a mail filter to store, archive, label or delete messages sent to this address. Another way i s to insert one or more full stops into your address, for example, a.nything@gmail.com or a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g@gmail.com.
10) Portable browser – Download this takeaway version of Firefox, called Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, from Firefox_portable. Install in on external hard disk, USB flash drvie, etc. Then set it up with add-ons and saved passwords. Now this will save you a lot time when using other people PC because you will save the time finding the website and keying the password. The best part of this solution is that no personal data gets left behind in the host PC after you pull out the device.
11) To find out the song title - Make full use of the advantage of the cell phone in-built microphones and together with music identification software you can find the song title easily. You can try this popular freeware, Shazam which is very popular in Apple’s iPhone. But Shazam has also release the app for Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms.
For PC and Mac users, you all can use Tunatic but you need to have a microphone install first for the software to work.
12) Find your Blackberry PIN – Instead of going to Options>Status>PIN, users can just start a new email or SMS and type in “mypin” in the message field. Hit Enter and the PIN comes up.
13) To completely delete a file - Pressing delete and then empty your Recycle Bin does not delete the file completely. Other user can make use of some program to restore all your deleted files. To completely destroy a file you need some software such as Eraser or Permanent Eraser. This kind of software will overwrite the deleted file many time to make it almost irretrievable.
14) Windows 7: create power consumption report -In Windows 7, click start and type “cmd”. Right-click the menu item and click “Run as Administrator” Next type in “powercfg -energy”. A file called energy-report.html will be created with details of your device’s power usage.
15) Gadget galore – In Windows 7, you can enhance your desktop with mini-apps called gadgets. Simply right-click on the desktop and select Gadgets. In the new pop-up window, click “Get more gadgets online” at the bottom right-hand side of the window. Example of gadgets are Full Moon, AccuWeather, wireless network meter, etc. There are now more than 3600 gadgets available for download.
16) Make Windows 7 key work harder – Press it together with the left or right arrow key to automatically resize the current window to fully occupy the left or right half of the computer screen. Or press the Windows key and the down arrow to minimize an open window. Press the Windows key together with the up arrow to get the window to fill up the whole screen.
17) Make the monitor look better - Windows 7 now come with a new monitor calibration tool. This save you the money and time to install a calibration software. This tool is found in Control Panel then click on the Display icon. There you will see the Calibrate Color button. Take your time to adjust it until you find it comfortable to look at the screen.
18) Web searches from Start - To perform Internet searches in Windows 7, go to the Start Menu and enter “gpedit.msc” in the Start Menu search box to access the Group Policy Editor. Then double-click on User Configuration in the right pane and select Administrative Templates followed by Start Menu and Taskbar. In the list of settings, double-click and enable “Add search Internet link to Start Menu”.
19) Problem recorder - If you have problems installing or uninstalling software or removing a virus, here is an additional tool. The problem steps recorder documents all the steps performed on the computer and creates a zip file so that every detail can be shared and studied. Click Start and type in “psr.exe”, press Record to start the process and end the recording before creating the zip file.
20) Write in a new Gmail window - In order to write a new email message without moving away from the e-mail message you are currently reading. Hold down Shift C while clicking on Compose. A new window will open and you can start writing a new email.
21) Use camera as copier - Place the magazine or book as flat as possible on the table. Then set the camera lens at the middle of the zoom range this will move lens away from the wide angle which carries some distortion. Hold the camera above the center of the page and as flat as possible. Turn on the macro mode (the flower symbol). Off the flash, you do not want to over expose the page.
via Digital Life, Nov 18, 2009.
800 words to make your blogging life easier.
1) AutoCopy(Firefox addon)
AutoCopy work just like how you copy and paste in mirc. Simply just hightlight the text without pressing Ctrl+C to copy it and paste it to where you want instead of using Ctrl+V. You can just use the middle button of the mouse. Moreover this tool also fixes really long, wrap-broken URLs automatically.
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time. DownThemAll is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want! Follow this guide it will showed us how to do some smart tune-grabbing and Flickr downloading: supercharging your Firefox downloads with DownThemAll, but this walkthrough should work for any types of files and any page.
3) Jing
As a blogger you may need to do a lot of screen capture, upload photo and videos. By using Jing it allow blogger who want to share their screen captures to do so as quickly as possible. Durin the installing of Jing one can set up an account at Screencast.com and at the same time also set Jing to upload to your Flickr account or YouTube account. Once you’ve set it up, going from capturing a screenshot or screencast to sharing the URL for your hosted file takes a matter of seconds. Jing has basic annotation tools, but the real draw is speedy sharing. Upgrading to Jing Pro for $15 a year removes the Jing branding from your images and video and adds in a few features, like the ability to record your screencasts in MPEG in addition to Flash.
This is an add on for microsoft office 2003 and 2007. It is not a tool that we use everyday but it is good to have when you need to translate some paragraphs from foreign language to a language you understand. Moreover it is a free add on no harm adding it to your office and use it when needed.
This is very important for we blogger, as we participate in a lot of forum, social network and etc. You will not want to use just one password for all right? In my march post i have blog about keepass which is a free open source password manager you can use to manage your passwords. Click on the link above to access my previous post.
Scribefire
ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.
7) Split Browser(Firefox addon)
Split Browser
This splits the content area of the browser window as you like. It will help you in various cases. For example, to compare multiple webpages, to show a calendar always, and so on. You can split browsers over and over. Status of split browsers are saved, and automatically restored on the next startup.
Maybe after sometime of blogging you decided to host your blog on a paid server. The problem begin when you start to think of a domain name. You can pay a visit to this site Bust A Name it has a online name generator, you just need to key in the keywords you want and it will generate a lot of domain name suggestion to you.
Wowzio
Wowzio’s Gallery Widget automatically finds all the pictures on your blog and creates a beautiful photo-grid (gallery) or Panoramic SlideShow. Yes, this may sound like nothing to do with making your blog busy but i decided to include it as each slideshow or gallery image will links to your corresponding post. This will attract your visitor to click on your other posts and in turn making them stay longer at your blog. Most important this widget load damm fast.
10) All in one Adsense and YPN
Feeling very frustrated each time you have to add your google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network ads to your newly installed theme. Try this All in one Adsense and YPN widget, it is able to automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly. It doesn’t matter if you have 1 post or 100,000 posts, it will insert your ad code into all of them automatically. You can control all aspects of your ad’s display and position. Just specify ad color and position in the plugin options, your ad code is automatically generated and inserted. Advanced users can add html and css code before and after the ad to have total control of the ad display.
Use sitemeter to track your blog view and visitor. It provide a very detail report of your blog traffic.
Last) 30 Excellent WordPress Video
You will find the tutorials organized into several topics that include theme development and customization, site administration, beginner’s tutorials, and using some WordPress tools.
