Tuesday, March 31, 2009

22 Useful Google Chrome Shortcuts

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

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

  • 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.
Now with iPhone

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

  • 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.
Website: http://www.glassgiant.com/wanted/

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 the U.S. keyboard layout. Keys on other layouts may not correspond exactly to the keys on a U.S. keyboard. If you are using a different language keyboard layout from the version of Word you are using, you may have to make adjustments when using shortcut keys.
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 Para                  
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 Split                    
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 Para                 
CTRL+J
Left Para                    
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
Normal                       
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 Para        
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
Para Down                    
CTRL+DOWN
Para Down Extend             
CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN
Para Up                      
CTRL+UP
Para Up Extend               
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 Para                   
CTRL+Q
Revision Marks Toggle        
CTRL+SHIFT+E
Right Para                   
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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