On Monday I showed you how to bookmark any Web page with a single keystroke. (Okay, technically Ctrl-D is not a single keystroke, more like a single key combination. But it's still just one simple action, right?)
Today let's look at another keyboard shortcut that can simplify your Web-browsing experience. In fact, it's the shortcut you'd think would be tied to Ctrl-D (which, as you now know, is used for bookmarking).
I'm talking, of course, about accessing your browser's Downloads list. It's not uncommon for users to get tripped up after downloading a file, as it's not always obvious where that file landed or how you're supposed to find it. And what about files you downloaded in the past? Surely there must be some easy way to locate them?
Trying to decide between, say, the hot new Samsung Galaxy S3 and the iPhone 4S? How about the Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7 tablets?
Sure, PC World's reviews can help tremendously, but sometimes it's nice to see a blow-by-blow comparison between the exact models you've narrowed down.
How do you bookmark a Web site? Most users venture into the Bookmarks menu, click Add to Favorites (or something similar), and so on. It can add up to a lot of clicking.
There's a faster, easier, smarter way: Just use the keyboard shortcut. Here's the keystroke for all popular browsers:
This is an update of a post I wrote nearly three years ago. Because I continue to encounter the problem on new PCs, I figured it was time to revisit it for those users who missed the original article.
I'll bet good money this has happened to you: You step away from the computer for a little while, and when you come back, all your windows and work are gone.
What happened? Windows, that's what. Windows Update downloaded some updates and took it upon itself to reboot without your permission.
"When I click on a certain category of e-mails in Gmail I get nine visible entries. I can delete them one at a time but I would like to delete them all at once. How can this be done?"
When you say "a certain category of e-mails," Bill, I'm assuming you mean a label. But whatever the case, there are plenty of situations when it would be helpful to select a visible batch of messages, then apply a function (like delete) to them. The process for doing so is hiding in plain sight.
Like Craigslist? Me, too. I've scored many a great deal on the classified-ad site.
Just one problem: For every single listing that says it has an accompanying "pic," you have to click through to actually see that picture. To me that's the very definition of "hassle."
