Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Today I received an e-mail request to have the visual keyboard put back online (all the while I thought people were enjoying the textual list of shortcuts). Due to the request, there's a link on every shortcut page to see the shortcuts on the "original" flash interface.
Please ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
I was searching on YouTube and saw a surprising amount of keyboard shortcut tutorials. Several individuals and some websites (LifeHacker) are starting to create tutorials for keyboard shortcuts (e.g., Google Reader). One possible consideration is to integrate these with the ShortcutGuide website.
This is a rather humourous spoof of an infomercial ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
It's been roughly 1.5 years since ShortcutGuide.com opened up shop on the web. During the last few months I've been gearing up and putting out more features, trying to spread the good word (or key, for those that enjoy a mediocre pun). I think some of this work has been ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Sometimes when searching for keyboard shortcuts you'll find the wrong version of the keyboard shortcuts for the application you're looking for (e.g., you have Microsoft Access 2007, and you search for Microsoft Access keyboard shortcuts and the result page has shortcuts for Microsoft Access 2002). If you land on a ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
You can now read keyboard shortcuts on ShortcutGuide in 23 other languages besides English:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish
The functionality comes from the Google Translate widget (thanks Google). Try the World ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Yesterday I wrote a post boasting about how many votes were cast on the new rating system. While the post was technically accurate, a large amount of those votes were actually made by the googlebot. During the excitement of setting up the rating system, I forgot to block the voting ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Pages that link from the autocomplete UI should load much faster now. Pages that are loaded are static, however, updates (additional shortcuts) are updated every hour; votes made by users count, however, new tallies are only refreshed every hour as well.
Application URLs now appear in this format: company/application/version#.#/keyboard-shortcuts/
There's a link ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
I've made a small style change to how shortcut keys are represented, they should be much easier to read now.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
I announced about a week ago the new rating system for shortcuts. During the past week over 5900+ votes have been cast. Shortly (no pun intended), the site will feature a page that has the top 20 most voted applications.
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