Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
LAPTOP USERS: BE AWARE! :-
A couple lost their 25 year old son in a fire at home on June 4th. The son who had graduated with MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison two weeks earlier had come home for a while. He had lunch with his dad at home and decided to go back to clean up his hostel room. His father told him to wait, to meet his mother, before he went back for a few days. He decided to take a nap while waiting for his mom to come back home from work. Some time later their neighbors called 911 when they saw black smoke coming out of the house.
Unfortunately, the 25 years old died in the three year old house. It took several days of investigation to find out the cause of the fire. It was determined that the fire was caused by the laptop resting on the bed. When the laptop was on the bed cooling fan did not get the air to cool the computer and that is what caused the fire. He did not even wake up to get out of the bed because he died of breathing in carbon monoxide.
The reason I am writing this to all of you is that I have seen many of us and also our brothers& sisters sons&daughters friends&family using the laptop while in bed. Let us all decide and make it a practice not to do that. The risk is real. Let us make it a rule not to use the laptop on bed with blankets and pillows around. Please educate as many people as you can.
"Please pass to everyone you know, you might save one's life"
Friday, July 6, 2012
25 Keyboard Shortcuts
Useful Shortcuts to Ctrl + C/Ctrl +V
Win + C: Display the Windows Charms Bar, where you can perform search and change settings.
Win + D: Takes you to your desktop.
Win + M: Minimize all open apps.
Win + Page up/ page down: Move between your two monitors when in dual display mode.
Win + Space bar: Switch language.
F11: Enter full-screen mode on your browser.
Ctrl + Shift + N: Create a new folder in current directory/ folder.
Ctrl + W: Close current tab.
Ctrl + Shift + T: Reopens last closed tab (works on most browsers).
Ctrl + B: Manage browser bookmarks.
Ctrl + Q: Close current application.
Ctrl + Z & Ctrl + Y: Undo & Redo.
Ctrl + O: Open file.
Ctrl + R: Reload page.
Ctrl + 1-9: Switch between browser tabs, according to order of appearance (works on most browsers).
Alt + Tab: Switch between open programs.
Ctrl + Shift + Esc: Display Task Manager.
Ctrl + Mouse wheel: Make font size bigger or smaller.
Ctrl + -/+: Zoom in and out on page.
Ctrl + Enter: In the internet browser URL field, use this combo to add “www.” and “.com” to the text you type.
Home (in a text field): Move to beginning of line.
End (in a text field): Move to end of the line.
Home (on any open window): Go to the top of the current window.
End (on any open window): Go to bottom of current window.
Shift + Delete: Erase file permanently.
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