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once in a while, i still experience slickrun battling with another window on which of them should be activated (this has been a long outstanding bug of slickrun). my usual workaround is to lock my system (Win+L) then unlock it. slickrun behaves as normal after this workaround.
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i was composing a message for a client when i pasted a table and it was pasted beside another table. i wanted to format the second table to another line so i thought of including a page break on top of it. in winword, the shortcut key for insert pagebreak is control+enter, so i did the same, voila, the...
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if you're a keyboard junkie, you might have mistaken to close that Visual Studio Tool Window (resharper's find usage is a prime candidate) with an Alt+F4 keystroke and when you don't have any changes to save, your slow VS which took you almost a minute to load is now closed. Next time, just...
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i have just started using the shortcut keys for gmail as shown here . as usual, i printed a copy and pasted it in my cubicle borders. i love it when they standardize navigation keys, the J and K keys for move up and move down selections are similar with bloglines '.
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I have been using SearchKeys for a while now as I explore my mouseless computing world . It's good because firefox just emits numeric shortcut keys for google search results and my bookmarks at del.icio.us (used to support google groups, too bad). SearchKeys shortcuts: (number) - open link in current...
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Here is my current list of keyboard shortcut that i frequently use at work. An asterisk (*) means a custom keyboard mapping that i am using. I'm currently on a one week no-mouse therapy hopefully to learn more to use the keyboard. Visual Studio Ctrl+Alt+L Solution Explorer Ctrl+Alt+S Server Explorer...
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I just found this keyboard shortcut list for Microsoft Word, just what i need. For those who still don't have this bookmarked, here it is: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290938
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i haven't really used this shortcut key for the past years and eversince i used firefox with the web search, i became hooked into it. i've been using it in every application (ms excel, visual studio) to toggle the dropdownlist items. no need to use the mouse. so next time you want to select an...
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i haven't really abused the power of resharper and since i have been currently shifting most of my mouse activities with keyboard shortcuts, easy navigation on a particular code sheet is a requirement. i finally am using goto next/previous keyboard shortcuts of resharper to browse to the next method...
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i don't know if it's only psychological based on a number of blog posts of developers having this carpal tunnel syndrome but i am currently experiencing irks on my wrist/palm/hands. as a result, i am trying to do almost everything now with keyboards. aside from the mouseless firefox scenarios, i am now...
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Jon Galloway lists a compilation of keyboard shortcuts that will be helpful for keyboard lovers like me. You might as well check it out here . since i have been using firefox for months now, i haven't really dug in on how to optimize its usage using keyboard shortcuts, so i love the following: Alt-D...
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was reading some of my .NET feeds when i bumped into Roy's post on VS shortcuts Press Ctrl-X or Ctrl-C in a line where you have *no selection* - and you'll automatically copy or cut the entire current line. Save lots of time and pain, and just isn't well known. (why did i not know about that!) http:...
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I finally found the shortcut list for a number of MS Windows commands. For the complete listing, visit this link . This can be handy for some: Run Commands compmgmt.msc Computer management devmgmt.msc Device manager diskmgmt.msc Disk management dfrg.msc Disk defrag eventvwr.msc Event viewer fsmgmt.msc...
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I am one of those command line junkie since I grew with MS-DOS 6.20 and Windows 3.1. I even had those experience with batch programming back then. Sahil Malik had enumerated a number of commands he usually use in his post, and the new things I wasn’t aware of are the pushd/popd pair and F7 (we had doskey...