Posts Tagged ‘Web’

Why the internet will fail (from 1995)

Thanks go to Three Word Chant!

The Inter­net? Bah!

Hype alert: Why cybers­pace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana

By Clif­ford Stoll | NEWSWEEK

From the maga­zine issue dated Feb 27, 1995

After two deca­des online, I’m per­ple­xed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Inter­net. I’ve met great peo­ple and even caught a hac­ker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and over­sold com­mu­nity. Visio­na­ries see a future of tele­com­mu­ting wor­kers, inte­rac­tive libra­ries and mul­ti­me­dia class­rooms. They speak of elec­tro­nic town mee­tings and vir­tual com­mu­ni­ties. Com­merce and busi­ness will shift from offi­ces and malls to net­works and modems. And the free­dom of digi­tal net­works will make govern­ment more democratic.

Balo­ney. Do our com­pu­ter pun­dits lack all com­mon sense? The truth in no online data­base will replace your daily news­pa­per, no CD-ROM can take the place of a com­pe­tent teacher and no com­pu­ter net­work will change the way govern­ment works.

Read more…

Geek Humor

• >——– The infor­ma­tion went data way ——–<
• 2 + 2 = 5 (for extre­mely large values of 2)
• AAAAA (Ame­ri­can Asso­cia­tion Against Acronym Abuse)
• (A)bort, ®etry, ℗retend this never happened…
• Access denied — nah nah na nah nah!
• An error? Impos­si­ble! My modem is error correcting.
• As a com­pu­ter, I find your faith in tech­no­logy amusing.
• ASCII stu­pid ques­tion, get a stu­pid ANCI.
• Bad com­mand. Bad, bad com­mand! Sit! Stay! Staaay…
• Bad com­mand or file name! Go stand in the corner.
• Best file com­pres­sion around: “DEL *.*” = 100% compression
• Beware of com­pu­ter pro­gram­mers that carry screw­dri­vers. (Leo­nard Brandwein)
• Beware of geeks bea­ring gifs.
• Bles­sed are the pes­si­mists, for they make backups!
• Bles­sed is the end-user who expects nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
• The box said, “Requi­res Win­dows 98 or bet­ter” so I ins­ta­lled Linux.
• BREAKFAST.COM Halted…Cereal Port Not Res­pon­ding Read more…

More Shortcuts for MS Word

   Command Name                  Shortcut Keys
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------

   All Caps                      CTRL+SHIFT+A
   Annotation                    ALT+CTRL+M
   App Maximize                  ALT+F10
   App Restore                   ALT+F5
   Apply Heading1                ALT+CTRL+1
   Apply Heading2                ALT+CTRL+2
   Apply Heading3                ALT+CTRL+3
   Apply List Bullet             CTRL+SHIFT+L
   Auto Format                   ALT+CTRL+K
   Auto Text                     F3 or ALT+CTRL+V
   Bold                          CTRL+B or CTRL+SHIFT+B
   Bookmark                      CTRL+SHIFT+F5
   Browse Next                   CTRL+PAGE DOWN
   Browse Previous               CTRL+PAGE UP
   Browse Sel                    ALT+CTRL+HOME
   Cancel                        ESC
   Center Para                   CTRL+E
   Change Case                   SHIFT+F3
   Char Left                     LEFT
   Char Left Extend              SHIFT+LEFT
   Char Right                    RIGHT
   Char Right Extend             SHIFT+RIGHT
   Clear                         DELETE
   Close or Exit                 ALT+F4
   Close Pane                    ALT+SHIFT+C
   Column Break                  CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
   Column Select                 CTRL+SHIFT+F8
   Copy                          CTRL+C or CTRL+INSERT
   Copy Format                   CTRL+SHIFT+C
   Copy Text                     SHIFT+F2
   Create Auto Text              ALT+F3
   Customize Add Menu            ALT+CTRL+=
   Customize Keyboard            ALT+CTRL+NUM +
   Customize Remove Menu         ALT+CTRL+-
   Cut                           CTRL+X or SHIFT+DELETE
   Date Field                    ALT+SHIFT+D
   Delete Back Word              CTRL+BACKSPACE
   Delete Word                   CTRL+DELETE
   Dictionary                    ALT+SHIFT+F7
   Do Field Click                ALT+SHIFT+F9
   Doc Close                     CTRL+W or CTRL+F4
   Doc Maximize                  CTRL+F10
   Doc Move                      CTRL+F7
   Doc Restore                   CTRL+F5
   Doc Size                      CTRL+F8
   Doc Split                     ALT+CTRL+S
   Double Underline              CTRL+SHIFT+D
   End of Column                 ALT+PAGE DOWN
   End of Column                 ALT+SHIFT+PAGE DOWN
   End of Doc Extend             CTRL+SHIFT+END
   End of Document               CTRL+END
   End of Line                   END
   End of Line Extend            SHIFT+END
   End of Row                    ALT+END
   End of Row                    ALT+SHIFT+END
   End of Window                 ALT+CTRL+PAGE DOWN
   End of Window Extend          ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+PAGE DOWN
   Endnote Now                   ALT+CTRL+D
   Extend Selection              F8
   Field Chars                   CTRL+F9
   Field Codes                   ALT+F9
   Find                          CTRL+F
   Font                          CTRL+D or CTRL+SHIFT+F
   Font Size Select              CTRL+SHIFT+P
   Footnote Now                  ALT+CTRL+F
   Go Back                       SHIFT+F5 or ALT+CTRL+Z
   Go To                         CTRL+G or F5
   Grow Font                     CTRL+SHIFT+.
   Grow Font One Point           CTRL+]
   Hanging Indent                CTRL+T
   Header Footer Link            ALT+SHIFT+R
   Help                          F1
   Hidden                        CTRL+SHIFT+H
   Hyperlink                     CTRL+K
   Indent                        CTRL+M
   Italic                        CTRL+I or CTRL+SHIFT+I
   Justify Para                  CTRL+J
   Left Para                     CTRL+L
   Line Down                     DOWN
   Line Down Extend              SHIFT+DOWN
   Line Up                       UP
   Line Up Extend                SHIFT+UP
   List Num Field                ALT+CTRL+L
   Lock Fields                   CTRL+3 or CTRL+F11
   Macro                         ALT+F8
   Mail Merge Check              ALT+SHIFT+K
   Mail Merge Edit Data Source   ALT+SHIFT+E
   Mail Merge to Doc             ALT+SHIFT+N
   Mail Merge to Printer         ALT+SHIFT+M
   Mark Citation                 ALT+SHIFT+I
   Mark Index Entry              ALT+SHIFT+X
   Mark Table of Contents Entry  ALT+SHIFT+O
   Menu Mode                     F10
   Merge Field                   ALT+SHIFT+F
   Microsoft Script Editor       ALT+SHIFT+F11
   Microsoft System Info         ALT+CTRL+F1
   Move Text                     F2
   New                           CTRL+N
   Next Cell                     TAB
   Next Field                    F11 or ALT+F1
   Next Misspelling              ALT+F7
   Next Object                   ALT+DOWN
   Next Window                   CTRL+F6 or ALT+F6
   Normal                        ALT+CTRL+N
   Normal Style                  CTRL+SHIFT+N or ALT+SHIFT+CLEAR (NUM 5)
   Open                          CTRL+O or CTRL+F12 or ALT+CTRL+F2
   Open or Close Up Para         CTRL+0
   Other Pane                    F6 or SHIFT+F6
   Outline                       ALT+CTRL+O
   Outline Collapse              ALT+SHIFT+- or ALT+SHIFT+NUM -
   Outline Demote                ALT+SHIFT+RIGHT
   Outline Expand                ALT+SHIFT+=
   Outline Expand                ALT+SHIFT+NUM +
   Outline Move Down             ALT+SHIFT+DOWN
   Outline Move Up               ALT+SHIFT+UP
   Outline Promote               ALT+SHIFT+LEFT
   Outline Show First Line       ALT+SHIFT+L
   Overtype                      INSERT
   Page                          ALT+CTRL+P
   Page Break                    CTRL+ENTER
   Page Down                     PAGE DOWN
   Page Down Extend              SHIFT+PAGE DOWN
   Page Field                    ALT+SHIFT+P
   Page Up                       PAGE UP
   Page Up Extend                SHIFT+PAGE UP
   Para Down                     CTRL+DOWN
   Para Down Extend              CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN
   Para Up                       CTRL+UP
   Para Up Extend                CTRL+SHIFT+UP
   Paste                         CTRL+V or SHIFT+INSERT
   Paste Format                  CTRL+SHIFT+V
   Prev Cell                     SHIFT+TAB
   Prev Field                    SHIFT+F11 or ALT+SHIFT+F1
   Prev Object                   ALT+UP
   Prev Window                   CTRL+SHIFT+F6 or ALT+SHIFT+F6
   Print                         CTRL+P or CTRL+SHIFT+F12
   Print Preview                 CTRL+F2 or ALT+CTRL+I
   Proofing                      F7
   Redo                          ALT+SHIFT+BACKSPACE
   Redo or Repeat                CTRL+Y or F4 or ALT+ENTER
   Repeat Find                   SHIFT+F4 or ALT+CTRL+Y
   Replace                       CTRL+H
   Reset Char                    CTRL+SPACE or CTRL+SHIFT+Z
   Reset Para                    CTRL+Q
   Revision Marks Toggle         CTRL+SHIFT+E
   Right Para                    CTRL+R
   Save                          CTRL+S or SHIFT+F12 or ALT+SHIFT+F2
   Save As                       F12
   Select All                    CTRL+A or CTRL+CLEAR (NUM 5) or CTRL+NUM 5
   Select Table                  ALT+CLEAR (NUM 5)
   Show All                      CTRL+SHIFT+8
   Show All Headings             ALT+SHIFT+A
   Show Heading1                 ALT+SHIFT+1
   Show Heading2                 ALT+SHIFT+2
   Show Heading3                 ALT+SHIFT+3
   Show Heading4                 ALT+SHIFT+4
   Show Heading5                 ALT+SHIFT+5
   Show Heading6                 ALT+SHIFT+6
   Show Heading7                 ALT+SHIFT+7
   Show Heading8                 ALT+SHIFT+8
   Show Heading9                 ALT+SHIFT+9
   Shrink Font                   CTRL+SHIFT+,
   Shrink Font One Point         CTRL+[
   Small Caps                    CTRL+SHIFT+K
   Space Para1                   CTRL+1
   Space Para15                  CTRL+5
   Space Para2                   CTRL+2
   Spike                         CTRL+SHIFT+F3 or CTRL+F3
   Start of Column               ALT+PAGE UP
   Start of Column               ALT+SHIFT+PAGE UP
   Start of Doc Extend           CTRL+SHIFT+HOME
   Start of Document             CTRL+HOME
   Start of Line                 HOME
   Start of Line Extend          SHIFT+HOME
   Start of Row                  ALT+HOME
   Start of Row                  ALT+SHIFT+HOME
   Start of Window               ALT+CTRL+PAGE UP
   Start of Window Extend        ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+PAGE UP
   Style                         CTRL+SHIFT+S
   Subscript                     CTRL+=
   Superscript                   CTRL+SHIFT+=
   Symbol Font                   CTRL+SHIFT+Q
   Thesaurus                     SHIFT+F7
   Time Field                    ALT+SHIFT+T
   Toggle Field Display          SHIFT+F9
   Toggle Master Subdocs         CTRL+\
   Tool                          SHIFT+F1
   Un Hang                       CTRL+SHIFT+T
   Un Indent                     CTRL+SHIFT+M
   Underline                     CTRL+U or CTRL+SHIFT+U
   Undo                          CTRL+Z or ALT+BACKSPACE
   Unlink Fields                 CTRL+6 or CTRL+SHIFT+F9
   Unlock Fields                 CTRL+4 or CTRL+SHIFT+F11
   Update Auto Format            ALT+CTRL+U
   Update Fields                 F9 or ALT+SHIFT+U
   Update Source                 CTRL+SHIFT+F7
   VBCode                        ALT+F11
   Web Go Back                   ALT+LEFT
   Web Go Forward                ALT+RIGHT
   Word Left                     CTRL+LEFT
   Word Left Extend              CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT
   Word Right                    CTRL+RIGHT
   Word Right Extend             CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT
   Word Underline                CTRL+SHIFT+W

Clampi Virus targets online banking

In the modern world, most peo­ple never see their bank (with the excep­tion of ATM with­dra­wals).  We use bill pay, direct depo­sit and bank debit cards.  This is the exact beha­vior that the Clampi virus is living on.

Clampi is a very stealthy virus, just biding it’s time on a com­pro­mi­sed machine and watching for con­nec­tions to online finan­cial web­si­tes.  So many so that the Lon­don Times Online reports:

The tro­jan has a list of more than 4,500 finance-related web­si­tes that it moni­tors, inc­lu­ding Bri­tish high street banks. Secu­rity experts war­ned that it was one of the stealthiest and most per­va­sive threats to com­pu­ters using the Mic­ro­soft Win­dows ope­ra­ting systems.

The virus appears to be gea­red with more of the busi­ness users ins­tead of the nor­mal home user (though it does infect home users).  If the virus does end on a work com­pu­ter, it will attempt to cap­ture login cre­den­tials admi­nis­tra­tors and spread itself through the net­work.  As it spreads, it con­ti­nually moni­tors for login infor­ma­tion to the watch list of finan­cial web­si­tes.  If this virus does infect the finance group of a com­pany, it will attempt to send wire trans­fers from that account.  You can ask Slack Auto Parts.  It has been repor­ted that they lost $75,000 July 3–7, says owner Henry Slack. Clampi-infected com­pu­ters sent nine pay­ments to six dif­fe­rent mules � and fai­led to trans­fer an addi­tio­nal $69,000 in eight other attempts.

A word of war­ning, if your com­pu­ter is desig­na­ted for finan­cial usage, please do not surf the inter­net or use social media sites to mini­mize the risk of infections.

Since this virus has been out for a while, all the major anti­vi­rus ven­dors have upda­ted defi­ni­tion files that inc­lude the scan for this par­ti­cu­lar virus.  Make sure your sys­tem is always upda­ted and scan­ned on a regu­lar basis.  If you would like to run a quick check, using a dif­fe­rent ven­dor, I recom­mend these online scanners:

Trend­Micro: http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/
Syman­tec: http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/WelcomePage.asp
McA­fee: http://home.mcafee.com/downloads/freescan.aspx?cid=60447
Panda: http://www.pandasecurity.com/activescan/index/

Must Have Application for Thumb Drives

It’s a sign of the time, you can buy a thumb drive almost anywhere.  I have even seen them in Gas Sta­tions in the Omaha area.

There are many rea­sons to use these dri­ves: size, por­ta­bi­lity con­ve­nience, and sto­rage space, all come to mind quickly.  A lot of my exter­nal users do not even take their lap­tops to mee­tings any­more because they can keep all their pre­sen­ta­tions and such on a thumb drive and just plug into any machines.

On the other side of the coin, there are some inhe­rent risks to the trans­por­ta­tion of these devi­ces.  You may for­get them on site, lose them while get­ting something from your poc­ket, so on and so forth.  No mat­ter the rea­son, if you lose your drive, all of that data is now avai­la­ble to the per­son that finds it.

Here are some exam­ples of the type of data that can be lost by anyone:

Firm ‘broke rules’ over data loss

Home Sec­re­tary Jac­qui Smith has bla­med a pri­vate con­trac­tor for losing the details of thou­sands of cri­mi­nals, held on a com­pu­ter memory stick.

Tax web­site shut down as memory stick with sec­ret per­so­nal data of 12million is found in a pub car park

Minis­ters have been for­ced to order an emer­gency shut­down of a key Govern­ment com­pu­ter sys­tem to pro­tect millions of people’s pri­vate details.

The action was taken after a memory stick was found in a pub car park con­tai­ning con­fi­den­tial pass­co­des to the online Govern­ment Gate­way sys­tem, which covers everything from tax returns to par­king tickets.

Two exam­ples may not seem like a large amount, but if you look at the amount of data that was lost in these two exam­ples you will rea­lize how much data is at stake.

With that being said, I have found a free appli­ca­tion that will help with this.  Rohos Mini Drive Encryp­tion.  This app has a very small foot­print and once your drive is setup, you don’t have to ins­tall soft­ware on any other com­pu­ter to access that encryp­ted file.

Accor­ding to the deve­lo­pers web­site they list the fea­tu­res as:

• Crea­tes a vir­tual encryp­ted par­ti­tion volume (disk) within a USB flash drive free space
• Auto­ma­ti­cally detects your USB stick con­fig and crea­tes encryp­ted partition
• Pro­gram does not require ins­ta­lla­tion to work with encryp­ted par­ti­ton on a guest com­pu­ter. You can start it right from USB drive
• Encryp­ted par­ti­tion is pro­tec­ted by password
• Encryp­tion is auto­ma­tic and on-the-fly
• Encryp­tion algo­rithm: AES 256 bit key length. NIST approved.
• Rohos Disk Brow­ser to open encryp­ted par­ti­tion without having Admin rights
• Vir­tual Key­board — to pro­tect your encryp­ted disk pass­word from a key logger
• Auto­run Fol­der. Saved program’s/file’s short­cut will auto­ma­ti­cally start/open up upon disk connection
• The limit of encryp­ted par­ti­tion size is 2 GB

I find the soft­ware very easy to use and intui­tive.  In no time, I had car­ved 500 megs on one of my dri­ves and was moving files over to the encryp­ted por­tion.  To try out the func­tio­na­lity I han­ded the disk to my co-worker and watched as they put it in and sure enough none of the data sho­wed.  Just an exe­cu­ta­ble.  When run, the pass­word cha­llenge screen comes up.  I really do like the idea of a vir­tual key­board, par­ti­cu­larly if you are on a com­pu­ter that you do not know.  Bet­ter safe then sorry in this world.  Once the correct pass­word is ente­red and accep­ted an explo­rer win­dow is ope­ned and all your files are acces­si­ble.  It did take a few moments for me to see how to add new files to the encryp­ted volume.  Just so you know, in the explo­rer win­dow you can right click and import file.

As I said before, in this world, encrypt everything.  I highly recom­mend this pro­gram to anyone with a thumb drive.

Things Learned from the Internet

• You want it, you can find it online.
• If you don’t want it, you can also find it online.
• It might take a while.
• Some­ti­mes the hunt is half the fun.
• Ever­yone has a web­site. Grand­fathers, mothers and babies. Everyone.
• At some point, Goo­gle became a verb.
• The dif­fe­rence bet­ween web sur­fing with Fire­fox and IE is the dif­fe­rence bet­ween body armor and a trendy cot­ton vest.
• If it sounds too good to be true, it pro­bably is.
• The Inter­net is the geeks play­ground. Here, we rule.
• Not that you would ever need to know the die­tary habits of the South Ame­ri­can antea­ter, but it’s com­for­ting to know you could find it online if you did.
• When in doubt, Wikipedia.
• Anyone who uses the term ‘Inter­web’ has never been online.
• Explai­ning the Inter­net to someone who’s never been online, is like explai­ning the Magna Carta to your cat.
• Almost everything of subs­tance can be sum­med up with a “DUDE! Check this out!’ and a hyperlink.
• Be safe. Be cynical.
• Some else already said it first. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be said again, and again…
• The Inter­net IS redundancy.
• There is no such thing as ‘suf­fi­cient bandwidth’.
• There’s always something new.
• You can never go back once you’ve tried it.

Free Online Games

Ori­si­nal - Gor­geous Flash ani­ma­tion, per­fect for kids

Web Sudoku- Are you addic­ted to sudoku? Then you’ll love Web Sudoku, the place for a new sudoku puzzle every day.

Games.com – Lots of free Online games Like Puzz­les, Cards, Spots, Arcade and More.

1980 Games- My favo­rite – I love Pac­Man! Take a walk down the 1980’s memory lane with 1980 Games, a site dedi­ca­ted to the great 1980’s clas­sic video games.

Minic­lip Games- This is where you’ll find Runes­cape, Heli Attack, and more free Web game goodies

MSN Games- The nume­rous multi-player games that are avai­la­ble encou­rage a sense of com­mu­nity as pla­yers inte­ract in online game rooms or lob­bies, while pla­ying games using Win­dows Live Mes­sen­ger, and while on their cell pho­nes when pla­ying Win­dows Mobile ver­sions of the games.

Hallo­ween Games Online- Any­time is the right time for a spooky Hallo­ween game.

Fan­tasy Sports- Get your fan­tasy sports game on.

Teagames.com is a great place to find good, free multi-player games, as well as lots of extreme sports free web games.

Pop­Cap Games should carry a war­ning label, because these free web games are highly addictive.

AddictingGames.com should not be visi­ted if you have any work to do. You’ll find games here ran­ging from Mayhem in the Skies to Ulti­mate Field Goal Kicking.

c64s.com -  You can play all sorts of free Com­mo­dore 64 games at c64s.com, inc­lu­ding Com­mando, Bub­ble Bob­ble, and Bruce Lee.

Crazy­Mon­key Games – Flash based games, a lot to choose from

Armor Games – More Flash games.

Thanks to Tech­no­buzz for star­ting the list.  if you know of any, please add to the comments.

Go Figure, Dirty sites are dirty…

Syman­tec, the makers of a very widely used array of inter­net secu­rity pro­grams, has com­pi­led a list of the 100 “dir­tiest” sites.

These sta­tis­tics are deter­mi­ned by a com­bi­na­tion of Symantec’s own craw­ler and input from their “Nor­ton Com­mu­nity Watch” mem­bers.  Below are some direct quo­tes from Symantec:

• Ave­rage num­ber of threats per site on the Dir­tiest Web­si­tes list is roughly 18,000, com­pa­red to 23 threats per site for all sites rated by Nor­ton Safe Web
• 40 of the Top 100 Dir­tiest Sites have more than 20,000 threats per site
• 48% of the Top 100 Dir­tiest Web sites fea­ture adult content
• 3/4 of the Top 100 Dir­tiest Web sites have dis­tri­bu­ted mal­ware for more than 6 months
• Viru­ses are the most com­mon threat repre­sen­ted on the Dir­tiest list, follo­wed by Secu­rity Risks and Brow­ser Exploits

For many years, inter­net users have always know that “adult” sites tend to be the big­gest con­tri­bu­tors to popup ads.  Now they appear to be a clea­ring house for other irri­tants.  With the amount of traf­fic that does tend to go to those sites, no judg­ment here by the way,  they have the per­fect vehicle.

Here is a par­tial list of the sites that made the top 100.  Please avoid them if pos­si­ble, or use extreme care if you have to go to them:

• 17ebook.com (view report)
• aladel.net (view report)
• bpwhamburgorchardpark.org (view report)
• clicnews.com (view report)
• dfwdiesel.net (view report)
• divineenterprises.net (view report)
• fantasticfilms.ru (view report)
• gardensrestaurantandcatering.com (view report)
• ginedis.com (view report)
• gncr.org (view report)
• hdvideoforums.org (view report)
• hihanin.com (view report)
• kingfamilyphotoalbum.com (view report)
• likaraoke.com (view report)
• mactep.org (view report)

• magic4you.nu (view report)
• marbling.pe.kr (view report)
• nacjalneg.info (view report)
• pronline.ru (view report)
• purplehoodie.com (view report)
• qsng.cn (view report)
• seksburada.net (view report)
• sportsmansclub.net (view report)
• stock888.cn (view report)
• tathli.com (view report)
• teamclouds.com (view report)
• texaswhitetailfever.com (view report)
• wadefamilytree.org (view report)
• xnescat.info (view report)
• yt118.com (view report)

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

1. Drag and drop
   • Drag the favi­con of any site to your home icon to set it as the home page.
   • Drag a hyper­link (or image) to the new tab icon to open the link in a new tab.
   • Drag a high­ligh­ted word to the search bar (beside the address bar) will bring you to the Goo­gle search result page for that word. If you drag the high­ligh­ted word to the address bar (and press enter), Fire­fox will per­form a Goo­gle “I’m Fee­ling Lucky” search

There are many things that you can drag and drop in Firefox.

2. Tab navi­ga­tionYou can move bet­ween your tabs without the aid of your mouse:
   • Ctrl+Tab (rotate for­ward among tabs)
   • Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the pre­vious tab)
   • Ctrl+1–9 (choose a num­ber to jump to a spe­ci­fic tab)
3. Key­board short­cuts
   • Ctrl + F: Brings up the Find in Page search
   • Ctrl + D: Quickly adds a web­page to your book­marks (the new book­mark goes straight into the main book­mark list)
   • Ctrl + K: Moves the cur­sor straight to the search box
   • Ctrl + L: Moves the cur­sor to the address bar
   • Ctrl + W: Clo­ses current tab
   • Ctrl + Enter: Insert www and .com to the address bar. If you enter “about” in the address bar and press Ctrl + Enter, the brow­ser will load the “www.about.com” page
   • Ctrl + +/- : Increase/decrease the font size
   • Spa­ce­bar: Page down
   • Shift + Spa­ce­bar: Page up
   • Alt + Home: Takes current tab to your home page
   • Alt + Enter: Dupli­cate the current tab
   • Alt + N: Find next in page
   • F5: Reloads current page

In addi­tion to the well known Ctrl + T pen new tab, Ctrl + N: open new win­dow etc, the follo­wing short­cuts are very helpful:

4. Mouse short­cuts
   • Ctrl + scroll up/down: Increase/decrease the font size (same as the Ctrl ++/-)
   • Click a hyper­link with the middle but­ton (or scrollwheel) opens the link in a new tab
   • Shift + scroll up/down: Navi­gate bet­ween the next and pre­vious page
5. Book­mark key­word searchIf you set a key­word for your book­mark, you can easily open the book­mark simply by typing the key­word in the address bar.To set key­words for your book­mark, right click the book­mark and select pro­per­ties. You should see a ‘key­word‘ field where you can enter your keyword.

Easily Remove Ads from Gmail

I enjoy the mas­sacre of ads. This sen­tence will slaugh­ter ads without a messy bloodbath.

What a quote to start off with I know.  But the power of those lines is ama­zing in gmail.  If you have a gmail account that you check through the web inter­face, those sen­ten­ces in your sig­na­ture or email body will stop ads in their track.  Not only for you, but who­me­ver you send the email to, if they use gmail also.

To setup your sig­na­ture, you will want to go to the set­tings link in the upper right hand corner

Gmail Set­tings

About half­way down your set­tings page you will find a block for your signature:

Sig­na­ture Block

Most peo­ple will pro­bably think you are nuts or in a bad mood if you leave that in your sig­na­ture, so you may want to inc­lude a disclaimer.

Thanks to Lifehac­ker for this trick.