Resizing the icons in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008

Well, I was playing with my mouse and somehow I discovered one more shortcut! :)

If you have Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 you can resize the icons in a flash. Open a window explorer or you can simply try it on your desktop too. Just press Ctrl key and scroll the middle button/wheel of your mouse and see the MAGIC..!!

I hope you know that the same way you can zoom in/out your browser screens.

Cheers!

Opening a link in a new tab without switching to it

How do you open a link in a new tab without switching to the newly opened tab?

There are several ways to open a link in a new tab:

1. Right click the link and click on “Open in a new tab”.
2. Hold Control key and click the link.

But let me tell you my sweet shortcut now:

      3.  Click the link with the middle button/scroll button of the mouse and it’s done. J

Few more keyboard stuff: .com, .net and .gov sites

Well, we all know this that we go to any .com site just by typing the name of the site and pressing Ctrl + Enter. For example, say you typed google and pressed Ctrl + Enter will open the site www.google.com.

Yesterday I discovered two more shortcuts to go to .net and .gov sites.

1. Shift + Enter: This will open the .net site.

2. Ctrl + Shift + Enter: This will open the .gov site.

But these two works in firefox only.

Also, what do you do to open a site in a new tab? Do you open a new tab using mouse or by pressing Ctrl + T and then type the site name?

Well let me give you one more shortcut here. Just type the site name in the same tab and press Alt + Enter. For example, if it’s a .com site press Ctrl + Alt + Enter !! And this works in IE, Firefox and others too !!

You want more? J

Ok. A very quick one but really a useful one. How to go to address bar directly?

Using TAB? It may take a lot of time depending on where you clicked last on the page or where your cursor is !!

Using mouse? Take of your hand off the keyboard, hold the mouse, move the mouse to point to address bar and then click. WOW what a long procedure !!

My WAY: Press Alt+ D and see. J

Howzatt !!

Happy keyboarding !!

Select Specific Tab with Keyboard Hotkey in Browsers

Most Browsers have built-in keyboard shortcuts for quickly navigating directly to the tab you want to get to. This is very useful when you are using Google Reader or Bloglines to read RSS feeds, and you’ve opened up a bunch of tabs. Before discovering this trick, I always used Ctrl+Tab to navigate back, or had to use the mouse.

Hotkeys:

Ctrl + 1 will always select the leftmost tab.

Ctrl + 2-8 will select each of the tabs in order from left to right.

Ctrl + 9 will always select the rightmost tab.

Do you know: System.Tuple

The upcoming 4.0 release of Microsoft .NET Framework introduces a new type called System.Tuple. System.Tuple is a fixed-size collection of heterogeneously typed data. Like an array, a tuple has a fixed size that can't be changed once it has been created. Unlike an array, each element in a tuple may be a different type, and a tuple is able to guarantee strong typing for each element.

More info..Click here

Google Wave

I always love to hear something new from google. This year they are going to launch something which is really revolutionary in my opinion. It's Google Wave !!! It's just awesome.....It's a must watch video...