25 Cool Windows 7 Keyboard Tricks That Will Impress Your Friends

Anyone working professionally with a computer has their hands on the keyboard most of the time. Reaching for the mouse can be an annoying disturbance and personally I often turn over my mouse in such situations. An easy solution is to simply keep the hands on the keyboard and complete as many tasks as possible with keyboard shortcuts only.

Apart from making you work more efficiently and faster, you can also impress your friends or colleagues by being able to work without a mouse. This article describes some cool Windows 7 keyboard tricks to get you started. In the end you might never want to take your hands off the keyboard again.

For your convenience, more keyboard shortcut resources are attached at the bottom.

Note that some of these shortcuts will only work if Windows Aero is enabled. If Aero effects are disabled on your computer, it might not be powerful enough to support resource intensive graphical features.

Aero Shortcuts

• [Windows] + [Spacebar] (Aero Peek)
Make all open windows transparent to view gadgets and icons on desktop.

• [Windows] + [D] (Aero Peek)
Show or hide the desktop.
• [Windows] + [Home] (Aero Shake)
Minimize all but selected window. Reverse by clicking the key combination again.
• [Windows] + left arrow OR [Windows] + right arrow (Aero Snap)
Dock selected window to the left or right half of your screen.
• [Windows] + up arrow OR [Windows] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximized and restores the selected window.
• [Windows] + [SHIFT] + up arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + down arrow (Aero Snap)
Maximizes and restores selected window in vertical dimension only.
• [Windows] + [Tab] (Aero Flip)
Launch 3D representation of open windows and click [Tab] key again to flip through them.

Windows & Taskbar

• [Alt] + [Ctrl] + [Tag] + left/right/up/down arrow
Flip window.
• [Alt] + [Tab]
Cycle through open windows.

• [Windows] + [T] OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + [T]
Move focus to front or back of taskbar. Press [T] again while holding the [Windows] key to cycle through items in the taskbar from left to right or, with [SHIFT] button held too, from right to left.
• [Windows] + [B]
Puts focus on the ‘show hidden icons’ button on the system tray.
• [Windows] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [9]
Launch first through ninth icon on taskbar, including items pinned to taskbar.
• [Windows] + [SHIFT] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [SHIFT] + [9]
Starts new instance of respective taskbar icon.
• [Windows] + [Ctrl] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [Ctrl] + [9]
Cycles through multiple instances of the respective icon.
• [Windows] + [Alt] + [1] THROUGH [Windows] + [Alt] + [9]
Opens jump list for respective icon.

Multiple Monitors

• [Windows] + [SHIFT] + right arrow OR [Windows] + [SHIFT] + left arrow
Move selected window from one monitor to another. They will remain in the same relative location.
• [Windows] + [P]
Select presentation display mode.

Magnifier

• [Windows] + [+] OR [Windows] + [-]
Activates Windows Magnifier to zoom in or out of screen.
• [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [D]
Switch to docked mode.
• [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [L]
Switch to lense mode.

• [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [F]
Switch from docked or lens mode back to full screen mode.
• [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [I]
Invert colors.
• [Windows] + [Esc]
Exist magnifier views.

Other

• [Windows] + [G]
Cycle through desktop gadgets.
• [Windows] + [X]
Launches Windows Mobility Center. Especially useful if you’re working on a laptop.

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How to Backup Facebook : 3 Free and Useful Tools

What if one day, Facebook accidently deleted or banned your account for some reason or another? What if a new social network comes along, and Facebook got shut down? What if you decided to close your Facebook account, but don’t want to lose all the data you’ve placed there? These scenarios may be highly unlikely, but they are very possible indeed.

Everything you put on Facebook resides there. All your status updates, links, photos, notes – everything. So, just like it’s good practice to backup your hard disk, it’s also good practice to have a plan ready to backup Facebook in case something bad goes down. Here are 3 free tools you can take a look at to ensure your data stays safe.

1. How to backup Facebook to your hard disk

Fancy recreating Facebook on your laotop? ArchiveFacebook is a Firefox addon which allows you to save content from Facebook directly to your hard drive and view them exactly the same way you currently view them on Facebook. It does take some time to process though, because it will try to do a full-backup everytime – but it’s still very comprehensive, and extremely useful.

2. How to backup Facebook photo albums

Whether you’re trying to backup your own albums, or trying to easily grab a friend’s album for offline viewing, FacePAD is a Firefox addon which allows you to download entire Facebook albums with a click of a button. You can also do this for fan pages and event pages as well.

3. How to backup Facebook to the cloud

Backupify is an amazing service which caters to backing up multiple services – Facebook being one of them. Using Facebook connect, Backupify will regularly save all your photos, friends lists, events, links, notes, and statuses to the cloud. The free version of Backupify can handle up to 2GB of storage.

Everything is stored on an S3 Amazon server and their privacy policy clearly states that any data you store on Backupify is yours, and they claim no right to it, nor do they look, sell, nor analyze it. Also, if you’re extra paranoid conscious about safety, it can allow you to hook up your own S3 Amazon server instead of using theirs

Chillin’ with Obama and Osama

Brazilian Obama impersonator, Ananias Rodrigues da Silva, posed for some photos with a local São Paulo man named Francisco Helder Braga Fernandes who looks eerily like Osama bin Laden. Apparently folks who live in São Paulo have been begging Frenandes for years to cut his beard because of his striking resemblance to bin Laden.

It’s probably a good thing he resisted, because this amusing photo-shoot would not have taken place. Check out 4 more images

 after the jump.

 

Everyday Art -12 images

(Everyday Art -12 images)

Kevin Van Aelst, an artist and photographer, pieces together brilliant art sculptures out of everyday objects he finds lying around the house! Kevin's photos could be seen weekly illustrating The Medium in the New York Times Magazine from 2007 - 2011, and are often featured amongst the pages of such publications as Scientific American, Men's Health, Money Magazine, Wired, and Time.

He is a recipient of a 2008 fellowship grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and

 Tourism. Check out 11 more images after the jump.

 

Credits: kevinvanaelst

Big Fat Royal Wedding Prince William weds Kate Middleton

Big Fat Royal Wedding Prince William weds Kate Middleton

 

 

From Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, royal fans lined the streets of London by the tens of thousands on April 29, hoping to snatch a glimpse of history as Prince William weds Kate Middleton in a marriage expected to revive Britain's beleaguered monarchy.`

 

Britain's Prince William kisses his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Royal Wedding in London Friday, April, 29, 2011.

 

Fiona Cairns, stands next to the wedding cake that she and her team made for Prince William and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, in the Picture Gallery of Buckingham Palace in central London, Friday April 29, 2011.

 

Prince William his bride Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, leave Westminster Abbey, London, following their wedding, Friday April. 29, 2011.

 

Bride Kate Middleton walks down the isle with father Michael at Westminster Abbey, central London, for her wedding to Britain's Prince William, Friday April 29, 2011.

 

Britain's Prince William and his bride Kate Middleton exchange rings during their wedding service at Westminster Abbey, London, Friday April 29, 2011.

In this image taken from video, England's soccer star David Beckham, left and his wife Victoria arrive at Westminster Abbey for the Royal Wedding in London on Friday, April, 29, 2011.

 

Inside tent from left to right, Michelle Berrisford, Storme Berrisford and Sommer Berrisford from Staffordshire camp overnight on the Royal Wedding route near Westminster Abbey in London late Thursday, April, 28, 2011.

 

Royal supporters Susanna Brockman, left, from Maryland, US, Chelsea Spence and Jessica Spence, right, from Zimbabwe show their T-shirts on the pavement near Westminster Abbey in London, Thursday, April 28, 2011. Royal enthusiasts are camping out on the pavement to reserve a spot to watch Prince William and Kate Middleton as they arrive to marry in Westminster Abbey on Friday, April 29.

 

After a long wait: Firefox 4 comes out into the light than many of the features and speed!

Finally, after waiting for several months came to us Firefox 4 browser formal and final Pencchth hours ago:

Back much of the new Firefox features and many of the speed, which caused a sensation to the point that, until the moment of writing these lines have been downloading more than 6 million times!!

What is new, which provided us with Firefox 4 and the cause of all this uproar?

This is what we learn through this report is a summary:

Interface:

The first thing you notice when you use Firefox is to re-order the new software interface for better utilization of space for browsing and to increase its simplicity:

Vtm remove the top bar and put his place tabs Tabs (such as Chrome and Opera) and removed the menus and put all in one button the top left of the screen:

Note also that the Refresh button to reload and stop loading Stop have become next to Address Bar Address Bar in writing and gathered in one small button to save space:

These adjustments may bother you at first glance that were not familiar with it, but you will feel comfortable gradually visual large and you are browsing the web in this large area.

A nice feature was added as well as the very name App Tabs and means to convert tabs to a small box appears at the top left of the tabs so always keep it in a conspicuous place of its importance, such as page e-mail or Twitter or Facebook.
You can do this by pressing the right mouse button Altbooibp then choose Pin as App Tab:

In this important to keep your pages in a visible place on the left away from the many scattered tabs!

For these hash Firefox developers created a wonderful new feature called Panorama:

Panorama:

And where you can browse the tabs visual way more organized and easier and the ability to organize in groups.
This video shows you this new property and how it works:

Firefox 4

Note there are also important is that you when you save several tabs and you close the program and then open it again, the software download page that I was standing by the first, and then show the rest of the pages.

Speed:

What concerns us most in a web browser is its speed in opening the pages and review and here lies the distinction the new Firefox compared to previous versions, whether the speed of opening the program or to show the speed of graphics or graphics and speed to run JavaScript programs:

According to the Mozilla Corporation (owner of Firefox) that the new browser is faster than 3 to 6 times that of previous versions, which is clearly feel it when you use the program.

Better support for Web standards:

The program provides better support, says the company's new Internet standards such as HTML5 and the effects of CSS 3, and others.

The new Firefox is available for 70 languages ​​and can download through their official by clicking on the image:

Then click on the button Firefox 4 Free Download.

To learn more about all the features of Firefox 4 (English): Firefox Features

Firefox faces fierce competition from Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Bmtcefhaa Bmtcefhaa Google Chrome as well as several other browsers, and to be impartial and despite the fact that the new Firefox Download a lot of updates that were worth the wait, but that a large part of which already exists in the browser competition!

Will Firefox 4 is able to increase the share of Mozilla cake digital world?