Tips: Windows

(newer tips are at the top)

Launchy

If you're on a Mac, you're lucky enough to have Spotlight built in, but for us suckers on Winderrs there's Launchy.

Operation couldn't be simpler: install it, and it indexes all your programs and stuff on your Desktop. Then, just hit Alt+Space to bring it up and start typing the name of whatever program or file you're gonna open and Launchy finds it.

launchy in action

It seems to get smarter about what you're looking for too, to where you can just type 2 or 3 letter combos to find a program. For instance, I just type fir for Firefox, ps for Photoshop, and so forth.

It's one of those programs that you can't live without once you start using it.

Alt+Tab

alt+tab = money

Hitting Alt+Tab cycles through all the open windows you have on your computer. It's tons faster than grabbing the mouse and clicking on the taskbar to go to that program.

If you want the Cadillac of Alt+Tab, try the free TaskSwitchXP.

Firefox: Bookmark All Tabs

If you're like me, you eat turtle soup with Aborigines every Friday. You also probably have 400 tabs open in Firefox sometimes and no time to read 'em all, but don't wanna lose 'em either. The fine folks at Firefox (say that 3 times fast) bestowed upon us Bookmarks > Bookmark All Tabs (Ctrl+Shift+D).

It's badass. Give it a shot.

Born: Nov. 4, 2008, Filed under: tech , Viewed: 15 times