Monday, February 16, 2009

Shortcut for browsing the web

Here's a good one to start with. Have you ever noticed that about 90% of the web sites you navigate to start with www. and end with .com? Well there is an easy way to include both of them with a simple keyboard shortcut.

Say you want to navigate your web browser over to www.cnn.com because you heard about a breaking story. You would simply need to type cnn in the navigation bar in Firefox or Internet Explorer followed by the Control (Ctrl) and the Enter key. This keystroke will add the www. and .com to cnn or any other address automatically. Try it out!

Here is a listing of the keystrokes for easy web browsing

Ctrl + Enter to add www. & .com (for example www.cnn.com)
Shift + Enter for .net addresses
Ctrl + Shift + Enter for .org addresses

Unfortunately, I have not found a shortcut for .edu addresses, which is a real shame since I work at a .edu. Please let me know if you're familiar with a .edu or any other keyboard shortcut to make web browsing faster and more efficient.

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