PC TIP #16 - F11

Did you know that F11 causes your current window to go full screen, very awesome. Full Screen your browser window. I occasionally use this in conjunction with the print screen key, and then save it to paint. Works for a lot of things. Some might have different keys set up to go full screen mode. F11 again to come back from full screen mode.

PC TIP #15 - CTRL + P

Did You know that if you had a printer installed and that if you press "CTRL + P", you call the print key and thus a simple keyboard shortcut. I use it occasionally, I usually use the mouse and print that way. I had an issue once where pressing CTRL + P it brought nothing up, and sent directly to queue, where I unable to fix the way I want the printer to print. So that left me with some annoyance where I haven't encounter when I use the mouse. Very fast if you want to print a lot of stuff at the same time, and you keep pressing it.

PC TIP #14 - CTRL + A

Did you know that "CTRL + A" highlights all stuff on the current screen. Pretty awesome sometimes when screen doesn't allow you to highlight or there is a lot of scroll your mouse over. It just highlights everything with the blue, and selects everything for you so that you can use your "CTRL + C" key to copy everything and paste it in where ever you like. I use to to copy a lot of text and then save it in my word or notepad. Pretty useful.

PC TIP #13 - PC temperature

Did you know that you can monitor your pc temperature. I wish they sort of kept track of it like on a graph, or save it in history of what it was before. Because a bunch of numbers I can't really tell what's a good pc temperature. You should keep track of the temperature and see if any irregularities happen. Just something interesting.

http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

PC TIP #12 - CTRL + +/-

Well you can control the font in your browser window. Changes the objects in your browser to be bigger and smaller depending on taste. This can be quite useful as currently a lot of people use font that are super tiny and are very hard on the eyes. So I just magnify the web page, although that may distort the view of certain things, but it doesn't matter as I just want to read the words.

There are two methods of doing this.

The keyboard is "CTRL + '+'" (the PLUS sign on top of '=' in qwerty keyboard.) This is use to increase the font size. The opposite would be "CTRL + '-'" which is use to decrease font size if it is too large. I haven't really visited a website that had supersize fonts.

Typically when you are using webpages you have at least one hand on the mouse and the other close to the keyboard. So the way to use the mouse and do it is press "CTRL + MouseScroller." Scrolling down increases the size and scrolling up decreases the size. This is very fun to do and easy. I can't believe I came about this as an accident. Somehow my hand was over the CTRL key and I scroll the mouse and found this neat pc trick.

PC TIP #11 - ALT + F4

Did you know that "ALT + F4" combine together will close your window. Pretty much every window so be careful when you use it. It could close something you were working on and didn't save. It's like every program in the world was coded so that it closes when press. Very useful when you can't find the close or x, especially when you might visit those sites you aren't suppose to goto and a million windows pops up with no way to click at the x, just do "ALT + F4." Not that I would know anyway.

PC TIP #10 - F6 key

F6 key seems to change the focus window in a browser to the address bar. So if you wanted to switch to another address without the using the mouse you can quickly go there with the F6 key. Another way is the TAB key which cycles through the current screen of possible places to do action events. This was learn by a mistake when I press the F5 key to reload and then notice that it changed to the address bar.

PC TIP #9 - F3 key

Did you know that F3 key from the browser starts the find window or the search window. In the Windows Operating System you open your search window. Like always you can also use the "CTRL + F" key which will basically call forth a Find bar. Sometimes when you are searching something you can continue to press F3 so that it will find the next thing you are searching for. Say you open the find bar and search for the world 'the' and you press enter, you want to find the next occurrance of the word 'the' then you press F3, and continue to the end of the page.

PC TIP #8 - Patch Tuesday

Did you know that Microsoft Windows releases updates for your system every second Tuesday of each month? They typically don't have updates available till then. So update your operating system then.

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PC TIP #7 - F5 Key

Did you know that the F5 key in your web browser it refreshes the page without you having to click on the refresh button. Much faster if you want to refresh the page. You can also use this in your windows explorer, to refresh the view files, but they usually refresh on their own. This refresh key is helpful on sites for Woot.com. And other sites that sell out stuff really fast if you want to get in on.
For those Firefox users there is a firefox extension that refreshes for you automatically at a predetermine time called ReloadEvery. ReloadEvery works miracles when you want to refresh any site you want or many at the same time. Although it is quite dangerous especially when you have close refresh between times. This can screw you over when you click on something and it refreshes for you, and just in that second the item disappears. I thought it was a very useful extension, but I don't get to really use it that much. ReloadEvery has a timer that you can set like refresh every 5 seconds, although I think that too close together, I don't think the website has finish loading before it refresh. You can set it to reload multiple sites too. Very good for just sitting back and watching it reload without you moving a finger.

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PC TIP #6 - Print Screen key

Have you ever wonder how to screen capture you monitor screen, without special software, well wonder no more. The "Print Screen" key on the upper right part of the keyboard does the trick. Just press it and you have a picture stored in memory waiting for you to store it on file somewhere. Open up your paint application program, and paste it in with your mouse or "CTRL + V", and save the file. Very useful for screen capture without all the special software, this captures everything on the screen, the bottom windows taskbar too, and every screen you see, not the current running application as some screen capture software may do that.

PC TIP #5 - PASTE

Did you know that you can paste with "CTRL + V". Whether you just cut or copy the selected text, once you have something, you can just paste anywhere with the cursor. Pretty quick combination with copy and then paste especially if you need to do something repetitive.

PC TIP #3 - CUT

First you need to select the text with you mouse or with your keyboard with "Shift + 'direction key'". Then press "Ctrl + X", you are able to cut the text out. This can be useful when you want to cut text out or just remove it. And then later paste it in somewhere.

PC TIP #2 - Highlight text

"Shift + 'direction key'" will highlight the text where the cursor is at. The direction keys are the arrows of up, down, left, right. They maneuver around the cursor. This can be very helpful at times. Say you want to delete a text, you can highlight it and then press the delete/backspace key. Another thing you can do with the keyboard without using the mouse.

PC TIP #1 - TAB key

Did you know that "Tab" not only indents for you but moves the focus window for you. So right now you can press "Tab" and it moves around, then you can press enter to activate that object. And "Shift+Tab" moves the focus backward direction. Try it here. Keep pressing "Tab" see what happens. It is especially helpful when you are filling out the forms online, so you don't have to click on each field, tab to the next field until you finish.

For some reason I learn it by mistake of pressing Tab and then somewhere along the way I press shift tab in combination to learn of this technique. I find this tip very useful.

PC TIP - START

I will start offering tips in the way I interact with the computer. Hopefully these tips will help somebody. If extra information is needed to understand please leave a comment.