Text manipulation

• In some text editors (like Notepad++), holding the Alt key while selecting text will select a rectangle of text instead of lines.
• Double-clicking text then dragging your mouse around will select words instead of characters. Not cool enough for you? Triple-click text to select paragraphs.
• Delete entire words instead of letters by holding the Ctrl key while you press the backspace and delete buttons.
• You can also move the cursor from word to word by holding the Ctrl key while you press the arrow keys.
• Holding the shift key while moving the cursor with the arrow keys will select the text the cursor passes over. This can be used in combination with the previous tip.
• Drag and drop selected text to move it from a field to another.

Web browsers

Most web browser shortcuts can be found on in the browsers’ documentation. Here are the links to the most popular ones:

Firefox | Chrome | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari

Some interesting highlights:

• Ctrl+Click on a link will open it in a new tab. You can also click links with the scroll button to achieve the same effect.
• In most browsers, Ctrl+K will give the focus to the URL bar and Ctrl+L to the search box.
• Ctrl+Shift+T will restore the last closed tab in most browsers.
• Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab will navigate back and forth between open tabs. Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown do the same thing.

Windows

• Ctrl+Shift+Esc shows the task manager. This is especially useful in Windows Vista and Windows 7 since it skips the full-screen menu page you see when you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

iPhone

• To close a buggy application, hold the power button until you see the “Slide to power off” screen, then release it and hold the home button until it disappears.
• To reset the device, hold the home and power buttons for a few seconds.
• Double-tap the top bar in Safari to go back to the top of the page.

When you add keywords to your bookmark in Firefox, you can quickly access them with only a few letters. For example, if you assign “rtm” as a keyword to RememberTheMilk.com, you will automatically be redirected to this website when you type “rtm” in the URL bar.

In Chrome, this can be done quite easily too once you figure out how it’s done:

1. Right click on the URL bar and select Edit search engines
2. Click “Add”
3. Fill in the information as for a normal bookmark.
4. Type your URL in the URL field. The keyword field becomes your keyword.

We simply add a new search engine with no search parameters. From now on, the keyword you entered will direct you straight to the website. Wasn’t that simple?