November 3, 2008

Keyboard Shortcuts for Web Services

We previously published several tips that give shorthand ways to move around Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, copy or delete multiple files, print screens, etc.

This tip provides additional useful keyboard shortcuts, but this time for popular Web services. You’ll find shortcuts to please any Google fan: Gmail, Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Calendar, and Google Docs. You’ll also find shortcuts for Yahoo! Mail, Netvibes, Pandora, Wikipedia, and these two blogs: Blogger and WordPress.

You can find these Web services keyboard shortcuts in an addictive blog called http://mashable.com/. You might go to the blog with the idea of saving some time, but chances are you’ll find lots of reasons to stay a long while!


Example: Some Gmail Keyboard shortcuts


a | reply to all recipients

c | compose a new mail

/ | puts your cursor in the search box

f | forward message

k | move to newer conversation

j | move to older conversation

m | mute (archive, and make all future messages from this conversation skip the inbox

n | next message

o or Enter | open a conversation

p | previous message

r | reply to a mail

s | star a message or conversation

u | return to conversation list

x | select conversation

y | archive a conversation

! | report spam

ctrl+s | save a draft

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