Comments on: Which Productivity Tricks Have You Adopted Lately?

By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:55:31 +0000

@Jason – Good tips! I just set up the firefox search keyword shortcuts…handy.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:33:30 +0000

If you use Firefox, use address-bar quicksearches for pages you conduct searches on (Google, Amazon, eBay, Dictionary/Thesaurus.com).

First navigate to the site in question and run a search, then bookmark the results page. Then open Bookmark Manager, and in the bookmark properties modify the URL and change the term you searched for to ‘%s’ (no quotes). Then enter a ‘keyword’; click ‘OK’. I always use single-letter keywords: ‘a’ for Amazon, ‘d’ for Dictionary.com, ‘g’ for Google.

Now in Firefox you just hit Alt d, then enter ‘g [whatever]‘ and press enter.

Also, I love SlickRun and use it for everything. With @MULTI@ and parameters it’s almost like a scripting engine.

By: Robz

Robz — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:51:31 +0000

Unlocker will be awesome! Thanks man.

Oh, got a Firefox tip for you: http://geekswithblogs.net/robz.....d-tab.aspx

By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:46:26 +0000

@Seth – Great idea about setting up hotkeys that you can do with one hand while web browsing. Thanks! Ctl-K is a good one too.

By: Ben Griswold

Ben Griswold — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:17:16 +0000

I like to wrap RunAs commands neatly in their own .cmd files. This allows me to quickly run specific tools with different permissions than the user which I am current logged in as. And one could hook a shortcut up to these .cmd files as well. I wrote more about it here – http://johnnycoder.com/blog/20.....dows-auth/

By: Seth Petry-Johnson

Seth Petry-Johnson — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:42:57 +0000

Great list. I use the UltraMon hotkeys as well, but I use “Alt-1″ instead. It’s a combination that only requires my left hand which comes in handy when my right is on the mouse.

Another good keyboard shortcut for Firefox is “Ctrl-K”: puts the focus in the search box.

By: Ezone IntraBlog

Ezone IntraBlog — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:58:37 +0000

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By: Russell Ball

Russell Ball — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:51:55 +0000

@Michal – Thanks! I use it a thousand times a day, but obviously don’t type it that many times. It just goes to show you how the fingers can be smarter than the brain..:-)

By: Catto

Catto — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:29:42 +0000

Hey Now Coder,
e4, some nice tips thx,
Catto

By: Michal

Michal — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:38:52 +0000

Just a fix:

Address Bar Hotkey (Ctl-D)

Its actually Alt-D