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Become a Keyboard Shortcut Master
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I’ll admit it there are some keyboard shortcuts that I constantly forget and seeing some of my other friend’s agility in the ways of the keyboard make me a tad jealous occasionally. So where can I polish up on my keyboard shortcut skills? Nothing seems to beat the shortcutguide.com where you can roll over different keyboard combinations and see what triggers what. Here you can train to become a true keyboard shortcut jedi master. The force is strong with you young keyboard apprentice.
Map Mashup snitches on Speed Traps
You all know I am fan of going over the speed limit, and you all know I am not a fan of my yearly ticket from the good old boys calling themselves Michigan State Police. You also know that I have been all over other ways to call attention to the infamous speed trap like the software that runs on your Windows Mobile phone that alerts you to the Popo via GPS. This Microsoft Maps mashup integrates user posted speed traps and you location. This way if you are planning on making a long holiday trip you can have the Radar Detector on super sensitive in some areas (you wouldn’t slow down). So save your bacon, no pun intended.
Convert regular audio cassettes to Mp3s
Shut down web page or Myspace annoyances
Myspace is a great place to find people, however one thing rarely found on Myspace is restraint when building a profile page. Gaudy text, blinking animated gifs of toads shaking their rump, comment spam, and often a really annoying song playing on their music player.
The problem is even though your friend may have limited style, you still long to know BIGPIMPIN is doing this week. So how do you keep the fingernails down the chalkboard website from annoying you or worse yet crashing your browser. To the rescue comes SquareFree’s annoyance zapper.
Just install the bookmarks in the browser of your choice and when you see an annoying website click on the appropriate bookmarklet. Suddenly BIGPIMPIN’s website is free of its obnoxious content and you can have friends without style.
Mozilla’s keyboard and mouse shortcuts save you time no matter the browser
Mozilla is so great not only do they post keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Firefox but they go the extra mile by documenting Opera and Internet Explorer. I found a couple of mouse shortcuts that should save me some time everyday and hopefully you too. I recommend printing these out and taping to the side of the screen if you have problems remembering these shortcuts, these may not save you time at first but once these shortcust are ingrained into your memory you will be surfing like pro.
Keyboard Shortcuts
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Mouse Shortcuts
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Take social networks to the next level, integrate Yahoo IM into your social networks
MyBlogLog is great at social networking around your website or blog but how can you really grow those relationships beyond simple notes back and forth? Simply link MyBlogLog users and website users up to your Instant Messenger. These tactics work for Yahoo Instant Messenger. You can add links to your web pages that tell Yahoo Instant Messenger to Send an IM, Send an IM with a message, Add you as a buddy, or join your in a chat room. Insert the codes below to do this, insert them into the HTML view of your document, or add a HTML snippet.
Send an IM
Want a user to be able to send you an IM easily by just clicking link on your webpage? Insert the follow into your webpage, replacing “YOURID” with your id, e.g. wiseassoffice 
<a href="ymsgr:sendIM?YOURID">Send me an IM</a>
Send an IM with a message
Want to start off the message so you know they saw your webpage? Insert the following into your webpage, replacing “YOURID” with your id, e.g. wiseassoffice and “YOUR+MESSAGE” with the message (spaces must be swapped for +)
<a href="ymsgr:sendIM?YOURID&m=YOUR+MESSAGE">Send me an IM</a>
Add a link to your favorite Chat Room
If you want to provide a quick link for people to click to join you in chat, insert the following code into your webpage, replacing “ROOMNAME” with the room name e.g. Yahoo! Chat Help.
<a href="ymsgr:chat?ROOMNAME">Join me in my Favorite Room</a>
Add a link so they can add you as a buddy
Want to allow them to add you as a friend? Copy the following code into your webpage, replacing “YOURID” with your id, e.g. wiseassoffice
<a href="ymsgr:addfriend?YOURID">Add me to your buddy list</a>
