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How to control YouTube playback using keyboard shortcuts?

Vijay — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:21:13 +0000

While watching YouTube videos, you may tend to skip to next 10 or 15 seconds. Also you would also like to go back to few seconds to repeat the same scene.

You might find it difficult to do this using mouse.

This tip would be useful when you watch videos on YouTube.

You can control the movie playback using keyboard shortcuts. Using LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys you will move the flash player seek bar backward and forward.

This will be very handy when you watch the clips in full screen mode. Even in normal window mode this tip works as long as the focus is on the YouTube flash player.

Also you can Play/Pause the video using SPACE BAR in the keyboard.

Few more YouTube tips are here.

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10 Shortcut Keys for Yahoo Mail

Vijay — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:58 +0000

Here are some keyboart shortcuts that will give you better experience with 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 Shortcut Keys for Yahoo Mail is originally published by Vijay For Victory

10 Firefox Keyboard shortcuts for Tabbed Browsing

Vijay — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:00:44 +0000

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

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Cool Firefox tip

Vijay — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:00:21 +0000

This 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.

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Easy access to Google Shortcuts

Vijay — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:00:40 +0000

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.

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

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

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