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• Yahoo Search Adds Travel Shortcuts

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:06 pm

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have added new Yahoo Travel shortcuts. Basically, if you search on a travel destination, such as Jerusalem, up comes a shortcut box, with travel related information. It looks like this: Click to continue reading...

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Yahoo Search Adds Baseball Shortcut

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:10 pm

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new baseball search shortcut. For example, a search on Prince Fielder, of the Milwaukee Brewers, shows up a shortcut with a picture, his number, team, real statistics for the year and fantasy league statistics, plus links to news, game log, scores, schedules and more photos and stats. Here is a picture: Click

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• 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

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• 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

  Filed under: OS, Software, ProductivityWhile the Mac web generally (and justifiably) has quite a few gripes with the long-disregarded Finder, it actually offers quite a few unsung features that make working with your files efficient and fun. The upcoming changes to the Finder in Leopard certainly do look nice, but I think it's about time we set

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• Drop-Down Maps & Other Enhanced Data Appearing In Yahoo Hotel Search Results

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:40 am

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  building out much richer Shortcuts, rolling out new ones almost daily. Here are recent additions, sports and music, for example. Yahoo has also done this for some time with restaurant reviews (e.g., "Sushi, San Francisco") and more recently travel (e.g., "London"). Locallytype noticed that some hotel searches are now starting to show

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• 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

  All-things-Apple weblog 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

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• Quicksilver Quickie: Use Quicksilver as Your Dictionary

  Published: August 20, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Dictionary, Keyword Launchers, Quicksilver, Quicksilver Quickie, Shortcuts, Thesaurus

  Weblog MacApper details how to set up Quicksilver as a quick and universal dictionary lookup tool. The step-by-step covers everything from installing the Dictionary plug-in to assigning a universal trigger that can define the currently highlighted word. The trigger isn't necessary, of course, since you can also get definitions by typing the word

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• 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 scripts in a

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• 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

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• Yahoo Search Adds Health, Electronics & NFL Shortcuts

  Published: August 23, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  Yahoo Search will be launching new Search Shortcut for health, consumer electronics and NFL related queries. Click to continue reading...

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• 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

  Toggle the case of any selected text in Microsoft Office applications between all lowercase, all uppercase or smart initial letter capitalization 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

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