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Open folders with a single keystroke: a free shortcut feature built into Windows
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Tipical Charlie
Welcome to Tipical Charlie, a repository of all kinds of tips related to computing, from web developer and technologist, Charlie Arehart.
I'll mostly share my own tips that I've found others enjoyed hearing about. I'll welcome tips from others, too.
(Wondering where I came up with the name?)
I'll mostly share my own tips that I've found others enjoyed hearing about. I'll welcome tips from others, too.
(Wondering where I came up with the name?)
Charlie Arehart's entries
Open folders with a single keystroke: a free shortcut feature built into Windows
Monday, 14 July 2008 10:00 P GMT-04
Here's a nifty shortcut that's built into Windows: do you find yourself opening a given folder frequently? How would you like to use ctrl-alt-someletter to be able to open it? It's free and easy. check out http://www.jeetblog.com/create-k
Yet another keyboard tip repository, and a useful one to share
Sunday, 15 June 2008 1:30 P GMT-04
Here's yet another useful keyboard tip repository: Windows tip of the dayAnd today they happened to share something I didn't know about getting Windows (XP in the tip, and Vista in a comment I just left) to help you see underlined letters for
keyxl.com: another keyboard shortcut repository
Monday, 3 December 2007 2:16 P GMT-04
Here's another repository of keyboard shortcuts for various programs, by program, category, and platform: http://www.keyxl.com
Firefox tip to perform quick searches of any site with a single address bar keyword
Wednesday, 28 November 2007 12:38 P GMT-04
If you ever find yourself frequently searching a site (like Amazon, or some knowledge base of a product you use or support, or a mailing list archive), this is a great way to do it in a single keyword.
Looking for internal links/anchors on a page? Look for "A ID" or "DIV ID" in addition to "A NAME"
Friday, 16 November 2007 11:52 A GMT-04
If you're ever looking to create a link to some internal content within a page (perhaps someone else's), you may know to use (or look for) the A NAME tag, but you may be surprised to learn that A ID or DIV ID work, too. I was and will explain here.
When the google toolbar spell checker is unavailable in Firefox, note that FF has its own
Wednesday, 29 August 2007 12:50 P GMT-04
Did you know that Firefox has its own spellchecker? I didn't, until I found I couldn't access the Google Toolbar spellchecker in a pop up window while in Firefox. Here's a solution and a tip.
Ever need to zoom in on your display, as a presenter or just while reading?
Friday, 17 August 2007 11:28 A GMT-04
Whether you're a presenter or just someone who struggles reading small type on a web page or within some tool on on your entire desktop, there are at least two useful (andeasy) solutions you should know about. I offer them here.
Got a Treo? Want to stop hitting the touchscreen by mistake during a call?
Thursday, 2 August 2007 12:33 P GMT-04
If you have a Treo 700 (Palm or Windows), there's a quick and easy solution to the challenge some face of hitting the touchscreen by mistake during a call and dropping it doing something else unexpected. You can disable the screen during a call.
Never run out of Ipod juice (battery power) again
Wednesday, 11 July 2007 10:38 A GMT-04
Boost your Ipod battery life (bt double, triple, or more) quickly, easily, and relatively inexpensively with the Nyko iBoost.
Cleaning out individual auto-suggest URL entries in IE (6)
Tuesday, 10 July 2007 4:25 P GMT-04
Many know the major browsers offer a means to clear out all the history of pages you've visited, etc. But what if you just want to remove just a couple URLs? I have several URLs popup for a given site where I want to just see a couple I use often.
Determining the time, easily, anywhere in the world with TimeAndDate.com
Monday, 9 July 2007 3:28 P GMT-04
Ever have to coordinate time with someone half a world away? It can be confusing, even if you know the "GMT relative offset"--and especially if you don't. Wish you could just say it's 3pm here, what time is it in x? You can, with timeanddate.com.
Keyboard shortcut for moving to the address (URL) bar in IE (7 and earlier)
Monday, 16 April 2007 6:50 P GMT-04
Some may have come to use the Ctrl-F4 key in IE 6 and before to move the cursor to the browser address bar, but as of IE 7, that closes the window (which makes sense in the multi-window tabbed interface). But what to do? There's an alternative.
Solve the problem of long URLs breaking up in emails
Friday, 23 February 2007 1:08 A GMT-04
I'm sure you've experienced sending an email to someone (or a group/list) where you offer a URL, and someone receiving it complains "you're link is broken". But the problem is just that their mail program split the line. Here's an easy solution.
A couple of Google Groups tips: getting email notifications, and finding your messages/threads
Wednesday, 21 February 2007 8:36 P GMT-04
If you use Google Groups, you may encounter a couple of challenges that I did today regarding getting notifications of posts to threads you're participating in, as well as finding messages you've written. Here are some tips.
Might your fax machine be sending things upside down? Think about those receiving your faxes digitally
Tuesday, 20 February 2007 6:41 P GMT-04
You may not think about this if you only receive faxes on paper, but if you send them to someone receiving them digitally, you could make their life easier if you take care to send them right-side-up. Let me explain.
Problems with Google Desktop with IE? Try Firefox and note other points I share.
Monday, 19 February 2007 1:52 P GMT-04
After enjoying Google Desktop's ability to search my local machine so quickly and effectively, it started failing recently with "page cannot be displayed" errors. Happened to you? Various remedies have been suggested. I wanted to share some thoughts.
Ever find an email gets sent before you really meant it to? You can probably control that.
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 1:26 P GMT-04
Ever been annoyed while writing email when you hit send by mistake (before finishing the note) and the email is sent immediately? It may be something you can control in your mail client. Here's how to do so in Outlook.
Printing out a tool's online help: without doing it one page at a time
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 2:57 P GMT-04
If you ever want to print out the online help for some tool, you may notice that you can print any page in the help, but what if you want to print many or even all of the pages? While you could print them one page at a time, there's a shortcut...
Recording your screen, to give or get help
Saturday, 7 October 2006 7:45 P GMT-04
Are you aware of the various alternatives for creating a visual recording of your screen, with voice-over or other callouts on the screen? There are many. Some are free, some commercial. Here are some pointers to them.
Need to remotely access a computer but don't want to pay for PCAnywhere? Check out LogMeIn, free
Saturday, 7 October 2006 4:51 P GMT-04
Ever have need to remotely access a computer? such as to access home from work, or vice versa, or to access a remote server for work? There are several alternatives, but if you prefer or need something like PCAnywhere, here is a free alternative.
Do people find your emails or blog entries long-winded? Here's help...
Saturday, 9 September 2006 1:28 P GMT-04
I'll be the first to admit that I've had problems with writing emails or blog entries that are too long and/or have more detail than some readers wanted to bother with. Perhaps you, like me, understand the problem from my perspective: I just
Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Office Apps
Sunday, 13 August 2006 4:55 P GMT-04
I'm a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts. If you use MS Office products (Outlook, Word, Powerpoint, and so on), you too may be frustrated by so many icons and toolbars with no seeming keyboard shortcut. They're probably there. This will show you how.
Don't miss out on the many powers of the Google Toolbar (some hidden buttons, some new context menu options, and more)
Friday, 11 August 2006 8:06 A GMT-04
If you're a user of the Google toolbar, are you getting the most out of it? There are hidden gems. IF you don't know what it is, let me also tell you why you should definitely add it, to either IE or Firefox.
Looking for some tool or service? You may find it free, at these sites (I needed an email reminder tool)
Monday, 17 July 2006 2:11 P GMT-04
I decided I needed to get an email reminder service, as I was missing the appointments set in Outlook and my phone, so I did a search to find one. I was pointed to a couple sites that offer links to dozens (even hundreds) of free products and service
Wish you could "snooze" a reminder on your Blackberry: you can, it's just not enabled by default!
Saturday, 15 July 2006 3:46 A GMT-04
Some folks who use a Blackberry complain that they miss the feature other PDAs have, where when an appointment reminder displays, they'd just like to be able to hit a snooze button for some number of minutes. But it's not there on a BB...or is it?
