Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Keyboard Shortcuts: 18 simple, intermediate, and advanced Photoshop shortcuts

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Image Editing, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Photoshop, Productivity, Shortcuts

  shortcuts are the bread and butter of application productivity, and Photoshop is no exception. The Digital Photography School weblog highlights 18 useful Photoshop shortcuts for beginer, intermediate, and advanced users. The 18 shortcuts listed are far from exhaustive, though, so share your favorite Photoshop shortcuts in the comments. If

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Shortcut Screencast Contest: Open Google Reader links in one keystroke

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Clips, Google Reader, Keyboard Shortcuts, Screencasts, Shortcut Screencast Contest, Top, Video Demonstration

  Reader Johnny uses a bookmarklet and a Firefox bookmark keyword to navigate directly to the next new post in his Google Reader subscription list. What magic is this, you ask? Hit the play button to see it in action. Johnny just earned himself an autographed copy of Lifehacker the book. Last call for screencasts! Submit yours to the Shortcut

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Hack Attack: Take Launchy beyond application launching

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Application Launching, Command Line, Exclusive Lifehacker Download, Feature, Hack Attack, How To, Keyboard Shortcuts, Launchy, Lifehacker Code, Productivity, To Do List, Top, Twitter

  Most people know Launchy as a simple and lightning-fast application launcher for Windows, but it's actually capable of much more than that. Using Launchy, you can append text to files, schedule appointments, add to your to-do list, set reminders, and more—it just takes a little setting up. Today I'll detail how I use Launchy for more than

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Featured Mac Download: Access terminal from anywhere with Visor

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Command Line, Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Terminal, Top

  Mac OS X only: Blacktree software—the people who reached into the heavens and pulled down Quicksilver—want to make getting to Terminal no matter where you are as easy as the press of a hotkey with Visor. With Visor running, hit the user-defined hotkey (Ctrl-F1 by default) and a slick terminal window will slide down at the top of your

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Linux Tip: Add Nautilus superuser shortcut to the menubar

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Desktop, Keyboard Shortcuts, Linux, Linux Tip, Shortcuts

  Linux users: Since you spend most time spent fishing around the file system so you can move or edit files, reader Joe writes in with a time-saving shortcut he uses in Ubuntu. Add sudo nautilus to the panel (menu) in Ubuntu to quickly launch Ubuntu's file explorer as a superuser. This is useful if you wish to edit files in folders which have

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Love your Finder: A keyboard shortcut for adding items to the sidebar

  Published: August 12, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Finder, Keyboard Shortcuts, Keyboardshortcuts, Love Your Finder, Loveyourfinder, Sidebar

  if you can wiggle that keyboard shortcut to your workflow. Got a file you need to remember later today? Cmd-T. A pictures folder you use for blogging that's buried deep in your Home folder? Cmd-T. A bunch of applications you're testing out for business or pleasure? Boom - that shortcut makes it easy to turn your Finder sidebar into a

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Mac Tip: Add a folder to the sidebar with Cmd-T

  Published: August 13, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Finder, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Top

  TUAW highlights a simple keyboard shortcut for adding any file or folder to your Finder sidebar: Got a file you need to remember later today? Cmd-T. A pictures folder you use for blogging that's buried deep in your Home folder? Cmd-T. A bunch of applications you're testing out for business or pleasure? Boom—that shortcut makes it easy

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Hack Attack: 9 Time-Saving Quicksilver Triggers

  Published: August 21, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Application Launchers, Feature, Hack Attack, Keyboard Shortcuts, Quicksilver, Time Savers, Top, Triggers

  Yes, most Macs have keyboard shortcuts for managing the system volume already built in, but if you're running of a different keyboard or controlling your Mac via Windows using Synergy, you may not have access to these keyboard shortcuts. Instead, I put together these small AppleScripts and then assigned them triggers. Just put the

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Cheat Sheets: Complete Mac Character Key Reference

  Published: August 22, 2007, 11:31 am

  Tags: Cheat Sheets, Downloads, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac Os X, Pdf

  Need to type the symbol for copyright, trademark or Euro on your Mac? How about e acute or an em dash? Design blog liquidicity offers a complete Mac character key cheat sheet in jpg and PDF form for quick reference or printing out and tacking to your bulletin board. Oh, and the infinity sign? Get it using Alt+5. Reference for EVERY Character

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Keyboard Shortcuts: Change Case in MS Office Apps from the Keyboard

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Formatting, Keyboard Shortcuts, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word

  with the Shift-F3 keyboard shortcut. This shortcut isn't everday-useful for most of us, but if you do a lot of formatting in Word—especially from all lowercase emails or the like—the smart first letter capitalization is awesome. If your text ends with punctuation, the shortcut will recognize it as a sentence and capitalize

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Firefox Tip: Jump to Site Subpages with Ctrl+Enter

  Published: August 29, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Firefox, Firefox Tip, Keyboard Shortcuts, Top

  You already know you can use Ctrl+Enter plus variants to never type http://www or .com/.net/.org again. Along those same lines, in Firefox, you can even go to a web site's subpages without typing the protocol or top level domain. Try it: type apple/trailers into the Firefox address bar and press Ctrl+Enter. Her Foxiness will fill in the

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• TUAW Tip: endo's keyboard shortcuts rock

  Published: August 29, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Ecto, Endo, Keyboard Shortcuts, Keyboardshortcuts, Shortcuts

  reading TUAW Tip: endo's keyboard shortcuts rockRead   Permalink   Email this   Comments

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Quicksilver: Get to Know Quicksilver from Its Maker

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Application Launchers, Clips, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac Os X, Quicksilver, Top

  Quicksilver's heretofore elusive creator Nicholas Jitkoff, generally known only as A1c0r, demos Quicksilver at a Google Tech Talk for his employers and co-workers at Google. Aside from providing an exceptionally detailed overview of the ideas behind Quicksilver, it's also a great guide understanding to the application. If the video whets your

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer keyword bookmarks with "about:"

  Published: September 10, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Bookmarks, Internet Explorer, Keyboard Shortcuts, Keyword Launchers, Keyword Shortcuts, Web Browsers

  recommend setting up shortcuts for URLs shorter than six characters (the length of "about:") but it would be very handy for complicated URLs that you visit frequently like "about:bank" or "about:gasprices"—you get the picture. It is about as close as you can get to keyword navigating for Internet Explorer. Trick : Make use of

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Keyboard Shortcuts: Learn and look up keyboard shortcuts for ...

  Published: September 13, 2007, 7:30 pm

  Tags: Keyboard Shortcuts

  Learn and look up keyboard shortcuts for a wide variety of online and desktop applications from Firefox to Excel to Google Apps at the KeyXL keyboard shortcut database.

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0