Vijay For Victory

Google hired CommonCraft team to create a custom video for Google Reader.

You would have seen videos on Blogs in plain English, RSS in plain English. A new addition on this series is Google Reader in plain English. These videos are short and simple.

These videos are the products of CommonCraft team. This company is run by two persons. Sachi LeFever (Project Manger) and Lee LeFever (Communicator) are running CommonCraft from home.

CommonCraft video tutorials are a big hit in current market. They really make videos on complex topics in such a way that everyone can understand. They are fun to watch and a great way to get a high level overview “in plain English” of the web2.0 technologies in just a few minutes. Visit www.commoncraft.com to see videos on RSS, Twitter, blogs, wikis, social networking and more.

No wonder CommonCraft team was hired by Google to make a video for a Google Product. They deserve it.

We all know that Google provides shortcuts for most of the actions in GMail and Google Reader.

For example, GMail provide shortcuts like,

• c – Compose
• /- Search
• r – Reply
• f - Forward

These shortcuts can be found here GMail Shortcuts and Google Reader Shortcuts. But while composing some mail, we can’t always visit this link to find a shortcut. I feel that it is difficult.

So what is the easy solution for this? Google gives an easier way to find keyboard shortcuts.

? Key is the solution for this.

Yes, you can get Google Keyboard shortcuts by pressing ? key in your keyboard.

Login to GMail or Google Reader and press ? key in the keyboard. You will get all keyboard shortcuts like below.

The images given above are taken from GMail and Google Reader.

Simple,  isn’t? So, start using ? key to get familiarised with Google Shortcuts.