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10 Shortcut Keys for Yahoo Mail

May 16th, 2009 Vijay 2 comments

Here are some keyboart shortcuts that will give you better experience with Yahoo Mail. Yahoo Mail

Command Shorcut
Check Mail m
New Mail n
Reply r
Reply All a
Forward Message f
Mark as Read K
Mark as Unread Shift+k
Next Message Ctrl+. (Control key + Period)
Previous Message Ctrl+, (Control Key + comma)
Close Message Ctrl+\ or Ctrl+w

10 Firefox Keyboard shortcuts for Tabbed Browsing

May 12th, 2009 Vijay No comments

Using shortcut keys always gives good user experience. Here is the list of ten Firefox keyboard shortcuts you should know that gives you a great experience on Tabbed Browsing.

Close Tab Ctrl+W

Ctrl+F4

Close Window Ctrl+Shift+W

Alt+F4

New Tab Ctrl+T
New Window Ctrl+N
Next Tab Ctrl+Tab

Ctrl+Page Down

Previous Tab Ctrl+Shift+Tab

Ctrl+Page Up

Undo Close Tab Ctrl+Shift+T
Select Tab ( 1 to 8 ) Ctrl+( 1 to 8 )
Select Last Tab Ctrl+9
Open Address in New Tab

(from Location Bar or Search Bar)

Alt+Enter

Cool Firefox tip

August 20th, 2008 Vijay No comments

FoxkehThis one is a simple cool tip on Firefox.

If you want to view a .com site, then simply type the name and press Ctrl+Enter.

“Ctrl+Enter” will add www. as suffix and .com as prefix. Most of us know this. This works in Internet Explorer also.

What if you want to view a .org or .net websites?

Type the site name and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter for .org websites.

Type the site name and press Shift+Enter for .net websites.

Type the site name and press Ctrl+Enter for .com websites.

Enjoy browsing in Firefox.

Easy access to Google Shortcuts

August 12th, 2008 Vijay No comments

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.

Google Mail Shortcuts
Google Reader Shortcuts

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

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