One of the little-known features of Windows 7 is the ability to create custom keyboard shortcuts for any program, file or page. If you use Google Calendar a lot, you can save a lot of time by creating ...

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Windows 8 significantly changed the Windows interface, which can make it hard to find programs you're used to opening frequently. The Start menu, which used to list Windows accessories like Notepad, ...

Quickly open Threads profile URLs in the Threads app. This shortcut takes a screenshot of the current screen in Mastodon or Twitter, finds Threads URLs in it, and allows you to open one direcltly in ...

Use a batch file to open the URL in IE, or if you want to get "creative", you can always create your own protocol like "iehttp:" as shown in the following. Then, edit the shortcut to use iehttp: ...

Newer Macs, both portable and desktop, come with keyboards that have shortcut keys on the top row, where the F keys are. These F keys allow you to increase or decrease the brightness of the display, ...

In Microsoft Word, many shortcuts facilitate operations. For example, press the Ctrl+S keys on the keyboard to save the document instantly. We don’t need to save the document manually after each edit.

You need root access to edit a lot of files in Linux, but Terminal work can get tedious. Here''s a simple way to add a shortcut to your applications menu for a root ...

But within that folder, I've also got homescreen shortcuts to my most-used bookmarks so that I can jump right to my favorite websites right from the homescreen dock.