Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Who's amung us is an interesting site that gathers live user data (geo IP) about users on a current web page. I've implemented their service on the site to let users know how many people are looking at the same shortcut page, what's most popular, and where are people coming ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
If you're interested in provided feedback about ShortcutGuide, please post comments below, or join the discussion Free-Space.Net. I've already made some changes to the site based on the feedback I recieved.
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Faster tabbed browsing: You should notice a significantly better response time when using tabbed browsing (the results are no longer fetched live from the server each time a new tab is clicked).
Publisher pages: Shortcut results pages now have a link to see all the keyboard shortcuts from the publisher/vendor. For ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
ShortcutGuide now has over 200 applications with keyboard shortcuts and over 7500 shortcuts themselves (roughly 37 shortcuts per application). The next major milestone is to break 10K shortcuts on the site, and we're 75% there. If you want to help us out, add some shortcuts to applications that ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Google is working on some innovative ways to represent information and navigate search results. They have three experimental versions of their interface (Alternate views for search results, Keyword suggestions, and Keyboard shortcuts). Using shortcuts to navigate search results is heavenly. You can go to previous and ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Why reinvent the wheel?
Since ShortcutGuide was started about a year and a half ago, there has always been a desire to put in more filtering mechanisms so that users can easily find the "most useful"/"highest utility" keyboard shortcuts. A quick and dirty approach was using JS-Kit Ratings. After ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
A day or so ago, ShortcutGuide broke the 100 applications mark (watch the stats). This is a relatively large accomplishment since we started in December of 2006 with our first application (gmail). Gmail keyboard shortcuts stayed on the front page and was later replaced by Vista keyboard shortcuts, subsequently the ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
The site was down for an hour or so today as we upgraded the current hosting plan. ShortcutGuide is now on a virtual private server instead of shared hosting. There is a significant performance increase in page load time. Additionally, instead of static HTML pages that were pre-generated, we've gone ...
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