October 8, 2008
As a student in a foreign country, I deal with a minimum of two languages. Mostly, it’s English and Russian. When I first started using Mac, I was surprised to find that it had built-in support for an abundance of keyboard layouts as well as some phonetic ones. Phonetic keyboards have the same layout as [...]
September 25, 2008
If you’ve been reading my articles for quite some time, you’ll know that I am quite keen on keyboard shortcuts. But the one thing that has eluded me until now was being able to abandon the mouse altogether and use the keyboard to “click” on webpage links. Well now you can, thanks to a Firefox [...]
July 30, 2008
In my capacity as “the guy who knows something about computers”, I occasionally get a phone call from a frantic friend or acquaintance to come round and help them fix their computer. Their problems normally come about because they’d thought they’d see what would happen if they deleted the “Windows” folder or because they thought [...]
June 14, 2008
Whenever any major motion picture has a “hacker” character, they always show the actor violently typing on their custom interface and causing all kinds of programs to pop up just from their keystrokes. Now, I’m no hacker to be sure, but I do like the ability to access any program or file at the touch [...]
February 20, 2008
I was stunned at the positive reception my last Firefox tips post received so when I discovered a new tip today, I decided to share it on Make Use Of. It’s obvious you guys like Firefox tips so here’s another one for your arsenal – navigating between pages with your keyboard. When you want to [...]
