User Experience
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
I love keyboard shortcuts! Who wants to tediously reach all the way over to the mouse, just to do something that could be done by pressing a key combination? Here are a few of my favorites, reply with some of yours.
Internet Browsing:
- Alt + d (or) F6 = Place your cursor in the address bar of the browser.
- Alt + <- (left arrow) = Go back one page.
- Alt + -> (right arrow) = Go forward one page.
- Ctrl + w = Close the current tab, or if no tabs are open, close the browser.
- Ctrl + t = Open a new tab.
General Use:
- Ctrl + z = Undo the last action. (I use this constantly)
- Ctrl + y = Redo the action that you undid.
- Ctrl + Shift + Esc = Open the Windows Task Manager directly, bypassing the annoyance of having to Ctrl + Alt + Delete first.
- Alt + F4 = Close the current window/program.
- Ctrl + c = Copy the selected item.
- Ctrl + x = Cut the selected text.
- Ctrl + v = Paste the copied item.
Most of the listed commands are universal (in that they work for Windows, Linux, and Mac) but some are OS specific.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Never, ever, use an iframe in IE 6 with the src set to an empty string: iframe src=”"
This works fine on non-secure pages but, once its https, you will get security popups. Of course the reason I was even using an iframe was to get around the bug in IE 6 where dropdown/selects bleed through any content floating above it (a.k.a. div over shim hack). So my fix for IE 6 caused even more IE 6 issues….. Good grief!
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
I ran across this amazing artist that I thought I would share. I was going to put a picture up to entice you to go check out her site but you will just have to go check it out for yourself. Believe me it is worth it. I would have never imagined you could do such amazing things with pencils.
This link will take you straight to the portfolio page:
www.jennifermaestre.com/portfolio.php
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
More pictures of my daughter. Enjoy.
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