Google Chrome is fast and minimalistic Browser, using the similar concept of the oversimplified interface and strong functionality. For many people, however, this browser is too basic, lacking useful features and convenience of operation of its rivals. The list of shortcuts below will help you to access browser features faster and more efficient.
Useful Google Chrome Shortcut Keys:
CTRL + SHIFT + N: Automatically opens up a Chrome ‘incognito’ window, which allows you to surf on a PC without leaving behind any digital footprints.
SHIFT + Escape: Allows for fast access to Chrome’s task Manager Utility to stop the browser processes that have gone bad.
CTRL + SHIFT + T: Will open recently closed browser tabs.
Window and Tab Shortcuts:
Ctrl+N - Open a new window
Ctrl+Shift+N - Open a new window in incognito mode
Press Ctrl, and click a link - Open link in a new tab
Press Shift, and click a link - Open link in a new window
Alt+F4 - Close current window
Ctrl+T - Open a new tab
Ctrl+Shift+T - Reopen the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
Drag link to tab - Open link in specified tab
Drag link to space between tabs - Open link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip
Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8 - Switch to the tab at the specified position number. The number you press represents a position on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9 - Switch to the last tab
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown - Switch to the next tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp - Switch to the previous tab
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 - Close current tab or pop-up
Alt+Home - Open your homepage
Ctrl+O, then select file - Open a file from your computer in Google Chrome
Shortcuts to Open Google Chrome Features:
Ctrl+B - Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+H - View the History page
Ctrl+J - View the Downloads page
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Fringing you iPhone - Free VOIP Calls
What is Fring?
Fring is a VoIP client (softphone) and service that allows free VoIP calls, chat sessions, instant messaging and other services over mobile devices and handsets. What makes the difference between Fring and most of the other VoIP software is that it is designed specifically for mobile phones, handsets, and other portable devices. Fring offers all the benefits of a PC-based VoIP client, but on mobile phones.
How free is Fring?
Fring’s software and service are both completely free. Consider the cost benefits of having a softphone like Skype on your computer. You would be able to make free calls to other people on the PC, but would have to pay small amounts for calls to mobile and landline phones. Fring gives free calls not only to people using PCs, but also to those using mobile phones.
Since you can make calls from your mobile phone to other mobile phones, you save a real lot on mobile communication. However, you need to convince your buddies to install Fring on their mobile devices as well. Since calls to PSTN have to be channelled through paid services, you will require paid services like SkypeOut, Gizmo or VoIPStunt to make calls to PSTN.
Eliminating the need to call PSTN, all calls are free; and the only thing you have to pay for is the data network services like 3G, GPRS, EDGE or Wi-Fi. A person using Fring optimally is likely to save more than 95% of what she would spend on traditional mobile communication. If Fring is used with free Wi-Fi in a hotspot somewhere, then the cost is nil.
What is required to use Fring?
Let us look first at what is not required. You don’t need a computer with headsets, or complex equipment like ATAs or (wireless) IP phones.
In terms of hardware, you need a 3G or smart mobile phone or handset. Most of 3G phones and smart phones of the most common manufacturers are compatible with Fring.
You also need to already have a data service (3G, GPRS or Wi-Fi) which you normally use with your smart phone. These services normally come with multimedia, mobile TV, video chat etc.
How Fring works?
Fring is based on P2P technology and harnesses the power of data bandwidth to place and receive calls, without bearing the costs of acting as middleman between VoIP and PSTN. It uses purely data bandwidth to transmit voice.
Getting started is a breeze: download the application from http://www.fring.com/ and install it on your mobile device. Register for an account and start communicating.
Brief specifications
From last year, Fring began offering free downloads of a program that lets you make toll-free phone calls on an iPhone, bypassing AT&T and every other cellular carrier. In other words, it does for the iPhone what Skype does for computers.
Once you’ve installed Fring, its main screen displays your contacts and their presence status (e.g. online, offline). Not only does Fring integrate buddy lists from assorted chat platforms into one place, but it also lets you make voice calls to anyone with a phone. Fring integrates your buddy lists from various chat and communications platforms into one interface. Currently, Fring supports accounts on Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Twitter, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, while offering SIP support for a variety of VoIP providers as well. But it periodically adds new services based largely on user feedback, so if yours preferred chat client isn’t supported today, check back tomorrow. This list shows the names of your fringsters - friends, your Skype/Google-Talk/MSN/ICQ/Yahoo/AIM contacts. From the main Buddy list you can navigate between your contacts, find their presence status and initiate a communication session with them. You may initiate a voice call, start a chat session and move between all open sessions using the ’Goto’ menu. You can also make SkypeOut/SIP calls directly from your Fring Buddy list.
Brief Video Presentation:
Fring - Free VOIP calls for iPhone
Sources and Additional Information:
http://voip.about.com/od/voipsoftware/p/FringProfile.htm
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156343/fring_for_iphone.html
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/04/15/free-phone-calls-come-to-the-iphone/
Fring is a VoIP client (softphone) and service that allows free VoIP calls, chat sessions, instant messaging and other services over mobile devices and handsets. What makes the difference between Fring and most of the other VoIP software is that it is designed specifically for mobile phones, handsets, and other portable devices. Fring offers all the benefits of a PC-based VoIP client, but on mobile phones.
How free is Fring?
Fring’s software and service are both completely free. Consider the cost benefits of having a softphone like Skype on your computer. You would be able to make free calls to other people on the PC, but would have to pay small amounts for calls to mobile and landline phones. Fring gives free calls not only to people using PCs, but also to those using mobile phones.
Since you can make calls from your mobile phone to other mobile phones, you save a real lot on mobile communication. However, you need to convince your buddies to install Fring on their mobile devices as well. Since calls to PSTN have to be channelled through paid services, you will require paid services like SkypeOut, Gizmo or VoIPStunt to make calls to PSTN.
Eliminating the need to call PSTN, all calls are free; and the only thing you have to pay for is the data network services like 3G, GPRS, EDGE or Wi-Fi. A person using Fring optimally is likely to save more than 95% of what she would spend on traditional mobile communication. If Fring is used with free Wi-Fi in a hotspot somewhere, then the cost is nil.
What is required to use Fring?
Let us look first at what is not required. You don’t need a computer with headsets, or complex equipment like ATAs or (wireless) IP phones.
In terms of hardware, you need a 3G or smart mobile phone or handset. Most of 3G phones and smart phones of the most common manufacturers are compatible with Fring.
You also need to already have a data service (3G, GPRS or Wi-Fi) which you normally use with your smart phone. These services normally come with multimedia, mobile TV, video chat etc.
How Fring works?
Fring is based on P2P technology and harnesses the power of data bandwidth to place and receive calls, without bearing the costs of acting as middleman between VoIP and PSTN. It uses purely data bandwidth to transmit voice.
Getting started is a breeze: download the application from http://www.fring.com/ and install it on your mobile device. Register for an account and start communicating.
Brief specifications
- Free calls using 3G, EGDE, GPRS and Wi-Fi technologies on mobile phones.
- Works with other voice applications, including Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, SIP and Twitter.
- Free calls to PCs and mobile phones.
- Cheap calls to PSTN using services like SkypeOut, Gizmo, VoIpStunt etc.
- Works on most smart phones.
- Auto-roams on Wi-Fi hotspots.
From last year, Fring began offering free downloads of a program that lets you make toll-free phone calls on an iPhone, bypassing AT&T and every other cellular carrier. In other words, it does for the iPhone what Skype does for computers.
Once you’ve installed Fring, its main screen displays your contacts and their presence status (e.g. online, offline). Not only does Fring integrate buddy lists from assorted chat platforms into one place, but it also lets you make voice calls to anyone with a phone. Fring integrates your buddy lists from various chat and communications platforms into one interface. Currently, Fring supports accounts on Skype, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Twitter, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, while offering SIP support for a variety of VoIP providers as well. But it periodically adds new services based largely on user feedback, so if yours preferred chat client isn’t supported today, check back tomorrow. This list shows the names of your fringsters - friends, your Skype/Google-Talk/MSN/ICQ/Yahoo/AIM contacts. From the main Buddy list you can navigate between your contacts, find their presence status and initiate a communication session with them. You may initiate a voice call, start a chat session and move between all open sessions using the ’Goto’ menu. You can also make SkypeOut/SIP calls directly from your Fring Buddy list.
Brief Video Presentation:
Fring - Free VOIP calls for iPhone
Sources and Additional Information:
http://voip.about.com/od/voipsoftware/p/FringProfile.htm
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156343/fring_for_iphone.html
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/04/15/free-phone-calls-come-to-the-iphone/
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Create Funny Old-fashion Wanted Posters
Take a break! Need an inspiring funny poster to cheer-up your colleague in these different economic times? Want to make a nice postcard for the birthday party? Got a tip for you…
You can easily turn any picture into old-fashion stylized "wanted" poster. You can use the poster graphic to personalize a website or blog, use it as a MSN display image, or email it to your friends.
Note, that you need to sign up for GlassGiant.com free picture hosting account in order to get code for the picture to be embedded in your blog or website. If you do not want to sign, you can just download the outcome picture to your PC. The only drawback is a small GlassGiant.com watermarking on the result image.
Tips for better results
You can easily turn any picture into old-fashion stylized "wanted" poster. You can use the poster graphic to personalize a website or blog, use it as a MSN display image, or email it to your friends.
Note, that you need to sign up for GlassGiant.com free picture hosting account in order to get code for the picture to be embedded in your blog or website. If you do not want to sign, you can just download the outcome picture to your PC. The only drawback is a small GlassGiant.com watermarking on the result image.
Tips for better results
- Take a close-up picture of a person’s face without much background.
- Take it in front of a white or light-colored wall.
- A cowboy hat, toy pistol or bandana adds a bit of fun.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
200 Plus Microsoft Shortcuts to Speed Up your Word Formatting
You probably have a few favorite keyboard shortcuts for formatting text - like Ctrl + B for applying boldface, Ctrl + I for applying italics, Ctrl + U for underlining, and maybe Ctrl + L to left-align text. But Word provides buttons for those tasks on the Formatting toolbar, so efficiency of using these options are quite questionable. The real convenience lies in knowing some more obscure keyboard shortcuts - the ones that have no default button equivalents and that can save users from having to scrounge around dialog boxes looking for the appropriate options.
The following is a list of keyboard shortcuts that are available in Microsoft Word 2002, in Microsoft Office Word 2003, and in Microsoft Office Word 2007. This list is a compilation of the individual keyboard shortcut lists available in Word 2002 Help and in Word 2003 Help.
Note Shortcut keys mentioned in the Help topics, menus, and dialog boxes refer to theU.S. U.S.
Note Shortcut keys mentioned in the Help topics, menus, and dialog boxes refer to the
| Command Name | Shortcut Keys |
| All Caps | CTRL+SHIFT+A |
| Annotation | ALT+CTRL+M |
| App Maximize | ALT+F10 |
| App Restore | ALT+F5 |
| Apply Heading1 | ALT+CTRL+1 |
| Apply Heading2 | ALT+CTRL+2 |
| Apply Heading3 | ALT+CTRL+3 |
| Apply List Bullet | CTRL+SHIFT+L |
| Auto Format | ALT+CTRL+K |
| Auto Text | F3 or ALT+CTRL+V |
| Bold | CTRL+B or CTRL+SHIFT+B |
| Bookmark | CTRL+SHIFT+F5 |
| Browse Next | CTRL+PAGE DOWN |
| Browse Previous | CTRL+PAGE UP |
| Browse Sel | ALT+CTRL+HOME |
| Cancel | ESC |
| Center | CTRL+E |
| Change Case | SHIFT+F3 |
| Char Left | LEFT |
| Char Left Extend | SHIFT+LEFT |
| Char Right | RIGHT |
| Char Right Extend | SHIFT+RIGHT |
| Clear | DELETE |
| Close or Exit | ALT+F4 |
| Close Pane | ALT+SHIFT+C |
| Column Break | CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER |
| Column Select | CTRL+SHIFT+F8 |
| Copy | CTRL+C or CTRL+INSERT |
| Copy Format | CTRL+SHIFT+C |
| Copy Text | SHIFT+F2 |
| Create Auto Text | ALT+F3 |
| Customize Add Menu | ALT+CTRL+= |
| Customize Keyboard | ALT+CTRL+NUM + |
| Customize Remove Menu | ALT+CTRL+- |
| Cut | CTRL+X or SHIFT+DELETE |
| Date Field | ALT+SHIFT+D |
| Delete Back Word | CTRL+BACKSPACE |
| Delete Word | CTRL+DELETE |
| Dictionary | ALT+SHIFT+F7 |
| Do Field Click | ALT+SHIFT+F9 |
| Doc Close | CTRL+W or CTRL+F4 |
| Doc Maximize | CTRL+F10 |
| Doc Move | CTRL+F7 |
| Doc Restore | CTRL+F5 |
| Doc Size | CTRL+F8 |
| Doc | ALT+CTRL+S |
| Double Underline | CTRL+SHIFT+D |
| End of Column | ALT+PAGE DOWN |
| End of Column | ALT+SHIFT+PAGE DOWN |
| End of Doc Extend | CTRL+SHIFT+END |
| End of Document | CTRL+END |
| End of Line | END |
| End of Line Extend | SHIFT+END |
| End of Row | ALT+END |
| End of Row | ALT+SHIFT+END |
| End of Window | ALT+CTRL+PAGE DOWN |
| End of Window Extend | ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+PAGE DOWN |
| Endnote Now | ALT+CTRL+D |
| Extend Selection | F8 |
| Field Chars | CTRL+F9 |
| Field Codes | ALT+F9 |
| Find | CTRL+F |
| Font | CTRL+D or CTRL+SHIFT+F |
| Font Size Select | CTRL+SHIFT+P |
| Footnote Now | ALT+CTRL+F |
| Go Back | SHIFT+F5 or ALT+CTRL+Z |
| Go To | CTRL+G or F5 |
| Grow Font | CTRL+SHIFT+. |
| Grow Font One Point | CTRL+] |
| Hanging Indent | CTRL+T |
| Header Footer Link | ALT+SHIFT+R |
| Help | F1 |
| Hidden | CTRL+SHIFT+H |
| Hyperlink | CTRL+K |
| Indent | CTRL+M |
| Italic | CTRL+I or CTRL+SHIFT+I |
| Justify | CTRL+J |
| Left | CTRL+L |
| Line Down | DOWN |
| Line Down Extend | SHIFT+DOWN |
| Line Up | UP |
| Line Up Extend | SHIFT+UP |
| List Num Field | ALT+CTRL+L |
| Lock Fields | CTRL+3 or CTRL+F11 |
| Macro | ALT+F8 |
| Mail Merge Check | ALT+SHIFT+K |
| Mail Merge Edit Data Source | ALT+SHIFT+E |
| Mail Merge to Doc | ALT+SHIFT+N |
| Mail Merge to Printer | ALT+SHIFT+M |
| Mark Citation | ALT+SHIFT+I |
| Mark Index Entry | ALT+SHIFT+X |
| Mark Table of Contents Entry | ALT+SHIFT+O |
| Menu Mode | F10 |
| Merge Field | ALT+SHIFT+F |
| Microsoft Script Editor | ALT+SHIFT+F11 |
| Microsoft System Info | ALT+CTRL+F1 |
| Move Text | F2 |
| New | CTRL+N |
| Next Cell | TAB |
| Next Field | F11 or ALT+F1 |
| Next Misspelling | ALT+F7 |
| Next Object | ALT+DOWN |
| Next Window | CTRL+F6 or ALT+F6 |
| | ALT+CTRL+N |
| Normal Style | CTRL+SHIFT+N or ALT+SHIFT+CLEAR (NUM 5) |
| Open | CTRL+O or CTRL+F12 or ALT+CTRL+F2 |
| Open or Close Up | CTRL+0 |
| Other Pane | F6 or SHIFT+F6 |
| Outline | ALT+CTRL+O |
| Outline Collapse | ALT+SHIFT+- or ALT+SHIFT+NUM - |
| Outline Demote | ALT+SHIFT+RIGHT |
| Outline Expand | ALT+SHIFT+= |
| Outline Expand | ALT+SHIFT+NUM + |
| Outline Move Down | ALT+SHIFT+DOWN |
| Outline Move Up | ALT+SHIFT+UP |
| Outline Promote | ALT+SHIFT+LEFT |
| Outline Show First Line | ALT+SHIFT+L |
| Overtype | INSERT |
| Page | ALT+CTRL+P |
| Page Break | CTRL+ENTER |
| Page Down | PAGE DOWN |
| Page Down Extend | SHIFT+PAGE DOWN |
| Page Field | ALT+SHIFT+P |
| Page Up | PAGE UP |
| Page Up Extend | SHIFT+PAGE UP |
| | CTRL+DOWN |
| | CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN |
| | CTRL+UP |
| | CTRL+SHIFT+UP |
| Paste | CTRL+V or SHIFT+INSERT |
| Paste Format | CTRL+SHIFT+V |
| Prev Cell | SHIFT+TAB |
| Prev Field | SHIFT+F11 or ALT+SHIFT+F1 |
| Prev Object | ALT+UP |
| Prev Window | CTRL+SHIFT+F6 or ALT+SHIFT+F6 |
| Print | CTRL+P or CTRL+SHIFT+F12 |
| Print Preview | CTRL+F2 or ALT+CTRL+I |
| Proofing | F7 |
| Redo | ALT+SHIFT+BACKSPACE |
| Redo or Repeat | CTRL+Y or F4 or ALT+ENTER |
| Repeat Find | SHIFT+F4 or ALT+CTRL+Y |
| Replace | CTRL+H |
| Reset Char | CTRL+SPACE or CTRL+SHIFT+Z |
| Reset | CTRL+Q |
| Revision Marks Toggle | CTRL+SHIFT+E |
| Right | CTRL+R |
| Save | CTRL+S or SHIFT+F12 or ALT+SHIFT+F2 |
| Save As | F12 |
| Select All | CTRL+A or CTRL+CLEAR (NUM 5) or CTRL+NUM 5 |
| Select Table | ALT+CLEAR (NUM 5) |
| Show All | CTRL+SHIFT+8 |
| Show All Headings | ALT+SHIFT+A |
| Show Heading1 | ALT+SHIFT+1 |
| Show Heading2 | ALT+SHIFT+2 |
| Show Heading3 | ALT+SHIFT+3 |
| Show Heading4 | ALT+SHIFT+4 |
| Show Heading5 | ALT+SHIFT+5 |
| Show Heading6 | ALT+SHIFT+6 |
| Show Heading7 | ALT+SHIFT+7 |
| Show Heading8 | ALT+SHIFT+8 |
| Show Heading9 | ALT+SHIFT+9 |
| Shrink Font | CTRL+SHIFT+, |
| Shrink Font One Point | CTRL+[ |
| Small Caps | CTRL+SHIFT+K |
| Space Para1 | CTRL+1 |
| Space Para15 | CTRL+5 |
| Space Para2 | CTRL+2 |
| Spike | CTRL+SHIFT+F3 or CTRL+F3 |
| Start of Column | ALT+PAGE UP |
| Start of Column | ALT+SHIFT+PAGE UP |
| Start of Doc Extend | CTRL+SHIFT+HOME |
| Start of Document | CTRL+HOME |
| Start of Line | HOME |
| Start of Line Extend | SHIFT+HOME |
| Start of Row | ALT+HOME |
| Start of Row | ALT+SHIFT+HOME |
| Start of Window | ALT+CTRL+PAGE UP |
| Start of Window Extend | ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+PAGE UP |
| Style | CTRL+SHIFT+S |
| Subscript | CTRL+= |
| Superscript | CTRL+SHIFT+= |
| Symbol Font | CTRL+SHIFT+Q |
| Thesaurus | SHIFT+F7 |
| Time Field | ALT+SHIFT+T |
| Toggle Field Display | SHIFT+F9 |
| Toggle Master Subdocs | CTRL+\ |
| Tool | SHIFT+F1 |
| Un Hang | CTRL+SHIFT+T |
| Un Indent | CTRL+SHIFT+M |
| Underline | CTRL+U or CTRL+SHIFT+U |
| Undo | CTRL+Z or ALT+BACKSPACE |
| Unlink Fields | CTRL+6 or CTRL+SHIFT+F9 |
| Unlock Fields | CTRL+4 or CTRL+SHIFT+F11 |
| Update Auto Format | ALT+CTRL+U |
| Update Fields | F9 or ALT+SHIFT+U |
| Update Source | CTRL+SHIFT+F7 |
| VBCode | ALT+F11 |
| Web Go Back | ALT+LEFT |
| Web Go Forward | ALT+RIGHT |
| Word Left | CTRL+LEFT |
| Word Left Extend | CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT |
| Word Right | CTRL+RIGHT |
| Word Right Extend | CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT |
| Word Underline | CTRL+SHIFT+W |
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