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Firefox Caret Browsing

Being a big fan of Firefox, I use it around 80%* of my web time. And being a photoshop fan, I belong to the type of people that loves to use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse. In Firefox, I recently found a way to:

• Browse, a webpage full of text,
• Select a text link with ease,
• Select text,
• and copy the selected text from a webpage into the clipboard

And all that without using the mouse.

It can be done by turning on the Caret Browsing that enables the Caret navigation which is a kind of keyboard navigation where a caret (also known as “text cursor”, “text insertion cursor”, or “text selection cursor”) is used to navigate within a text document (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_navigation).

F7 for Firefox Claret Browsing**

As stated in the screenshot above, F7 needs to be typed to turn on and off this browsing. And after it is turned on, I just type and hold the SHIFT key with the arrow keys to select a portion of text.

(* estimated figure)

(** Click on image to see bigger size)

Another discovery -.-

Below are some good videos from Youtube on how to use Google Reader. They are short and I found them very helpful:

Google Reader in Plain English - Google Channel

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How to Use Google Reader : Finding New Content with Google Reader - expertvillage

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Breaking the New Media Code 1 - Google Reader Tutorial - tattv

Another discovery -.-

Google Reader

Have you ever wondered how all these blog writers get the source for their blog posts so fast and with striking accuracy? Or how online journalists stay up-to-date with the trends within certain topics before anyone else? Look no further than Google.

I have recently found and started to use a new tool in Google called Google Reader. I have to say I found it by accident while using Google Alerts to get news feeds.

Google Reader

Google Reader is a tool for gathering, reading, and sharing all the interesting blogs and websites you read on the web (description from Google Reader help).

RSS feeds have been around for many years now and are been used by just about every content publisher on the web; news providers, blog writers, online auctions online retailers and more. For me to keep updated with the latest jobs and latest tutorial trends, these feeds are crucial. but storing all these feeds had become a problem lately because I am registered on hundred of RSS feeds and the readers I used at the time were either incompatible with the feed or I could not access those feeds from another computer. For example I used browsers such as Flock, Firefox and IE (Internet Explorer) to store my feeds but I could not access them from another computer easily.

Flock, Firefox & Internet Explorer

1 month ago just by accident, while creating some Google Alerts, I selected feed instead of my email address.

Create a new Google Alert

I was then sent to the window below, where I had the option to view my alerts as feeds format or in Google Reader.

View alerts options

It was a bit difficult to understand what the reader was good for but bit by bit I was finding new ways to use it:

• To keep updated with the latest news and trends
• I also use it for bookmarking
• Job search
• Web archive
• it is also very easy to share with friends; see my shares for a sample.
• it also has a trends checker tool that tells me useful information like: “From your 64 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 428 items, starred 10 items, shared 10 items, and emailed 0 items.”
• and I can add a dynamic links feed onto my website (see below)

Links feed on ddanielle.com

I think Google Reader is the perfect tool to organise and keep track of all RSS feeds and with its new layout it is 20 times easier to use.

Thanks Google!

-.- Another mistery solved.

Type F9 (function 9) to refresh outlook emails instead of clicking on the Send/Receive button.

Function 9

Another discovery -.-

Unknown TAB Key Shortcut

My web adventure continue. While typing a document today and typing a numbered list, I used the TAB key to jump into a new sub-list, I then looked closely on the key and noticed there are actually 2 arrows; one pointing to the right and one pointing to the left. And wanting to experiment a bit, I tried using a combination of SHIFT + TAB.

Surprise surprise, it goes both ways!

1. TAB = new sub-menu list or new paragraph indentation
2. SHIFT + TAB = return from sub-menu or return from new paragraph indentation

Keyboard TAB and SHIFT keys

-.- Another mistery solved.

Introducing myself…

Nothing much to say really, just this: my name is Danielle and I am what you call a newbie in this world of new media. For the past year, the influence of new media have changed my life completely, found a career in the field, and changed my life goals to fit this new activities and this month I have decided to start documenting all the fascinating things I discover online.