![]() I didn’t run any official tests, but I’m willing to bet that it takes at least three times longer to look at your task bar or dock (how many of you know what that is?), hunt for the application you need to switch to, then click on that program than it does to use the Alt+Tab or Command(Apple key)+Tab technique. Why use the keyboard instead of your mouse? Time. By holding down the Command+Tab key, Mac users can switch between their open programs. Macintosh users have a key called the “Command” key on their keyboards. ![]() Thus, it was a natural for our Video Tips, which are now almost 18 months old!įor Ubuntu and Windows users, you can quickly switch between open programs by pushing Alt+Tab on your keyboard. I have been using this technique for more than ten years, but in order to learn it, you really must see it in action. Thanks to long time listener and web visitor, Daniel, for suggesting this week’s tip. Watch the short video below to see this tip in action and see the web as never before! I think the mouse method is a little more intuitive and elegant. The same result can be achieved by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the “+” or “-” keys as well. Amazing, no? Holding down the Ctrl key and spinning towards your body (away from the monitor) will shrink the text again. However, you can quickly increase the size of the text you are reading by holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and spinning your mouse scroll wheel away from your body (towards the computer monitor). This alone may make enough difference for readability. Often designated as Printer Friendly, Print this article, or simply Print, clicking this link brings up a version of the article you are reading that is much less busy and cleaner than how the article presents on the web page itself. First, when you are reading a web site, particularly news web sites and blog type sites like mine, look for an indication of a printer friendly page. This tip can be performed without the mouse as well, but I’ll touch on that later. This tip will work with any web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc) and any operating system (Windows, Ubuntu, Mac OS X).Īll you need is a mouse with a scroll wheel and your keyboard. Using this week’s tip, you can easily and quickly enlarge the text of any web page using only your keyboard and mouse. We can see a lot more information, but often the text is too small to view for some computer users. Screen resolutions on today’s monitors are up to 3X that of monitors we used just 6-8 years ago. ![]() Why is that? It has to do with screen resolution (how much information can be displayed). Although we now have 19″ and larger monitors on most new desktop computers, the text seems to shrink.
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