Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts in Google Chrome

This is a collection of useful keyboard shortcuts for the Google Chrome Web Browser, that will speed up your browsing, and improve your experience.

-Clicks:

(“Click”, with no other specification, means a Left Mouse Button Click.)

• CTRL + Click: Open link in a new tab.
• SHIFT + Click: Open link in a new window.
• Middle Click: (On a link) Open link in a new tab (in the background.)
• Middle Click: (On a tab) Closes the currently clicked tab.
• Shift + Middle Click: Open in new tab, and shift focus to this newly opened tab.
• ALT + Click: Save link target as...

-Tabs:

• CTRL + T: Open a new tab.
• CTRL + N: Open a new window.
• CTRL + SHIFT + N: Open a new incognito (private browsing) window.
• CTRL + SHIFT + T: Re-opens the last closed tab. (Repeat to keep re-opening previous tabs.)
• ALT + Left or Right Arrow Key: Go forward or backwards in your browsing history.
• CTRL + TAB Key: Change focus moving through the next tabs.
• CTRL + SHIFT + TAB Key: Change focus moving through the previous tabs.
• CTRL + PageUp: Go to the next tab.
• CTRL + PageDown: Go to the previous tab.
• CTRL + (1 through 9): Go to a tab in the chosen position.
• CTRL + W: Close the current tab (if it were the only open tab, it would close your browser.)
• ALT + F4: Close your browser window, no matter how many tabs were open.
• CTRL + R: Reloads the current tab.
• F5: Refreshes the current web address.
• CTRL + P: Print the current webpage.
• CTRL + F5: Refresh the current page, bypassing any cached version.
• ALT + Home Key: Navigate to your homepage.

- Actions

• CTRL + F: Search occurrences of the given text in the curent webpage.
• F3: Go to the next search result with the current search query, in the current webpage.
• CTRL + U: View source code of the current page.
• CTRL + D: Add the current page to your bookmarks.
• CTRL + H: Open your browsing history.
• CTRL + B: Toggles the visibility of your bookmarks bar.
• SHIFT + ESC: Opens up the task manager of Google Chrome.
• ALT + F: Opens the tools menu.
• CTRL + SHIFT + J: Opens the developer tools menu.
• CTRL + O: Opens the selected file using Chrome.

- Address bar / URL

• CTRL + L: Moves the cursor focus to the address bar, allowing you to write a new website address.
• CTRL + K: (Also CTRL + E) Focuses on the address bar, including the ? symbol before your cursor, to perform a Google search.

After writing something in the address bar:

• CTRL + ENTER: Adds “www.” and “.com” to the text we've written, and navigates to that URL.
• ALT + ENTER: Open the chosen URL in a new tab
• CTRL + ALT + ENTER: Adds “www.” and “.com” to the text we've written, and loads that address in a new tab.

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Free Spotify Premium trial - but unsubscribe

Try out Spotify Premium for free, but remember to unsubscribe

Even when Spotify is still available in a limited set of countries, it is believed to be expanding soon. And the paid, Premium version of Spotify still allows online and offline music playback in any country you'd want.

Spotify is giving for free a 7 days trial of their Premium Account with no advertisements, with offline playlists even in your smartphone (iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Phone or Symbian) and even abroad.

Such a deal is very good, since you can try out the premium features at Spotify without having to subcribe and paying a full month in full. But you have to pay attention there if you don't want to keep being a Premium Spotify user (and paying for it:)

Such as Spotify advertises this: "No commitments, you can unsubscribe anytime you want", that's where you need to pay special attention: Once you accept the offer, Spotify will request your credit card data, to make a minimum charge of 0.01 &eur; to authorize your account, just ass a way to check and validate your card. That's quite similar to the way used by PayPal to validate a new credit card.

The "catch" is there: in case that you don't want to keep being a Premium user of Spotify, you need to unsubscribe before the free trial reaches its end. On the contrary, once 7 days have passed, Spotify will automatically renew your monthly Premium subscription with the credit card details previously given, so it would be a paid Premium version fron now on.

From trebleclick.blogspot.com, we recommend the Spotify Premium Accounts, for being a good service with a reasonable price. But we are also warning those who don't want to hire a paid music service by mistake.

From an original blog post by Dremin.

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CSS3 code generator

Automatic CSS3 code generator

Thanks to CSS3 (that is, Cascading Style Sheets in its version 3 of the standard) modern web browsers support lots of advanced effects. Those effects that once required several images or hacks are now available in a few lines of CSS3 code.

The best way to get your hands on CSS3 is to use an automatic CSS3 code generator which could write the CSS3 code for us just by specifying a couple of easy options.

I would suggest you this generator for CSS3 code, as it is very complete and easy to use.

Which effects can be created with the CSS3 code generator?

Using CSS3 code you can create effects like:

• Rounded corners.
• Text or box shadows.
• RGB colors.
• Multiple column layouts.
• Outlines.
• Color gradients.
• etc.

And all this just using a few lines of CSS3 code, with no need of additional images or HTML markup. That is really a big advantage in terms of code maintenance: if you want to update advanced effects of your site, you only need to rewrite a couple of lines of CSS3 code.

Which browsers support CSS3?

CSS3 is the future, and it will be the CSS standard used for all web browsers in a few years. But, by now, only a few web browsers support all CSS3 features.

So it depends on the CSS3 feature chose. But in overall, we could state that Chrome 4.0 and Firefox 3.5 (or better) support the most important CSS3 features.

Opera 10.5 and Safari 10.1 are also other web browsers that support nearly all main CSS3 features as well.

Finally, Internet Explorer 9 has a rather limited support for CSS3 features. So Internet Explorer could be considered the main obstacle to start using CSS3, as it only allows you to use rounded corners and advanced font face selection.

Fortunately, the suggested CSS3 generator would also specify which browsers could use the CSS3 code that was created in an automatic way. That is a very useful feature to be sure about browser version compatibility when using CSS3 effects.

If you want to get serious about the upcoming technologies of CSS3 and HTML5 I would suggest you to read a book on CSS3 and HTML5, and be the first when those technologies fully arrive.

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Web design e-books in PDF

Good web design e-books available in PDF

If you have some special interest about increasing your skills in web design, website development and web coding, you definitely need to check out this list of useful (and free) web design e-books.

They really cover every interesting topic that a good web developer should know: from web typography to accessibility and usability, including even some freelance business management tips.

This kind of resource, together with the lots of free e-books available, are possibly the best excuses to finally grab a good e-book reader (and, if you were wondering, the answer is yes: the number 1 e-book reader, Amazon's Kindle, already supports native PDF reading).

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Haloscan comments is closing

Haloscan comments closes at 10th February 2010

The blog comments service haloscan.com, closes the next 10th of February 2010.

According to Haloscan sources, a physical failure of its system forces them to close their commenting service. They provide 2 different alternatives:

• Exporting your existing blog comments, so you can import them in a different commenting service.
• Migrating your account to Echo, a different comments system which is not free, probably owned by Haloscan.

According to this second Haloscan migration option, they seem no to have no physical system failure that forces them to cut off the service. It all seems to be a rude justification to discontinue their current commenting service and then charge for the same service. Of course they have the right to do so, but their commenting service was somehow limited, with even less features than other free blog commenting services.

These kind of practices betray in some way user's confidence. They decided to start at some point with a free blog commenting system (well, not completely free, let's remind that you accepted such service in exchange to including advertisements in your own blog comments window), and in the long term they have to face this closing situation. Let's see whether an important drop in their number of users teaches them a lesson.

If you are a user of haloscan.com and you want to keep your previous blog comments, we suggest you to backup such comments before the closing deadline.

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Best 5 ways to use Google Analytics notes

What are Google Analytics notes?

Google Analytics has a new feature that allows you to create notes for your statistics. With Google Analytics notes you can attach a description or a comment to any date in your graph. It is just a matter of clicking a point in your graph, and then, writing down your annotations.

Why are Google Analytics notes so important?

This feature is very interesting because, till now, you had to keep a changelog for any maintained sites. But by embedding notes straight from Google Analytics, attached to specific dates, you can keep your historic of changes together with your statistics.

In a nutshell: with Google Analytics notes you better understand how is your site behaving. And only by understanding your measures you could optimize your site.

The best 5 ways to use Google Analytics notes

Since you can write your annotations in Google analytics to understand perfectly how it works (and being thus able to improve it), now the key is writing only those notes that are really meaningful.

For me, these are the 5 best ways to write notes in Google Analytics:

• Write notes with brief descriptions of your major site changes. That is, adding lots of new content, changing the website design, modifying the site navigation, and so on. After all, website analytics were designed to measure scientifically how human users and search engines navigate your site, so you have to pay special attention to strong changes in your statistics from that "major site changes" mark.
• Write a comment when any part of your homepage changes. Most returning users don't bookmark inner pages in your site: they just type the address of its homepage. And, of course, most new users are guided straight to your homepage. On top of that, your homepage is usually the main page rank distributor to the rest of your site. So any subtle change on your homepage could deeply impact both your users and search engines. And that's why you should pay attention after the "homepage changed" note in Google Analytics.
• Add a new note when any promotional campaign starts. When you put any special effort in a promotional campaign (either AdSense PPC, e-mailing, link building, and so on), you have to measure its impact. Is your campaign worth your time and effort? Does it attract new traffic? Now, you just have to look at your Analytics after the "promotional campaign started" annotation.
• Add annotations to your Analytics whenever you publish a new article, blog post or site page. If you really have the good habit of posting high quality content each day, this amount of notes could become overwhelming. Nevertheless, if you just update your contents once a week or less, it is important to measure how your content writing efforts affect your analytics. Check the "new content title" tag inside your Google Analytics graph and discover what is your best kind of content for traffic building purposes.
• Write a note whenever you detect a traffic spike in your statistics. That is, when a lot of users suddenly access your site, you register a peak in the graphs of Google Analytics. Finding the cause of such spikes is usually very easy: just look at your traffic sources. It will mostly be caused by a link pointing to your site from a very popular site. This way, these eye-catching traffic spikes won't distract you too much when understanding the subtle meaning of your Google Analytics statistics, now being marked with the "traffic spike cause" note below. And keep an eye trying to repeat such useful spikes.

Starred notes in Google Analytics

Specially meaningful annotations can be marked with a star icon, so you can filter out such less-important notes by selecting the starred option.

My suggestion is that you should try to mark everything in your statistics using these Google Analytics notes, because that will give you lots of fine-grain information. Couple this with the new Google Analytics Intelligence feature and you will be discovering tiny details that can really influence your results.

Nevertheless, Analytics notes are a time-saver feature. If you want to perform a broader analysis than the default last month statistics glance (let's say, a one year analytics report), you won't need lots of annotations - trust the most important, starred notes to get the big picture.

Google Analytics notes are a great way to understand and at glance the results of your Internet marketing efforts. Quick statistical understanding is the key to measure and optimize. So take advantage of this new time saving feature of Google Analytics when tracking your statistics. Use it wisely, following these best 5 ways to use Google Analytics notes

From the original online marketing consulting report by E. Serrano

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Tatachan - share funny images and surprising comments

tatachan.com - Share your images and comments

TrebleClick's development team, in cooperation with Blogtellas has created another website for your pleasure, tatachan.com

Tatachan is an image based forum in Spanish where you can post and comment images which are funny, entertaining and original, related to jokes, technology, videogames, wallpapers, high definition, animated GIFs... and mucho more, everything without ever needing to register: just enter and have fun!

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Find free images

Where to find free images

Let's face it: a good and eye catching image can improve your articles, websites and presentations.

But you already knew that you couldn't reuse any image that you found in Internet, didn't you? Most images out there are copyrighted, even if there aren't any explicit copyright statements or watermarks on the image. That means that you cannot pick and use whatever you find using Google Image search, for example.

So if you want to find a really free image, you have to look for an explicit license statement in its website, that entitles you to reuse such photo or graphic. One of the most popular licenses is Creative Commons, which lets you share your work with specific permissions.

But how do you find images under Creative Commons licenses? Don't worry: the 2 most popular search engines have been upgraded to cover this issue:

• Yahoo Image Search now allows you to filter search results according to the Creative Commons License type. On top of that, Yahoo now owns that huge database of photographs called Flickr, and the image search results will also include free images from Flickr.
• It seems that Google Image Search has been planning a similar update, and now, this kind of free image search can be done at Google Images using URL search parameters. Google will be adding these free image search options to the main interface of Google Image Search soon, but in the meantime, you can use this free image search form.
• There's another trick to discover domains that contain free images under Creative Commons licenses. Most of these sites link back to the Creative Commons webpages or icons. So you can perform an advanced search at your favorite search engine of webpages that link to the Creative Commons icon and that contain your target image keywords.

As you see, Internet is full of free images that you can use, if you know how to find them.

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Free ebook sites

Free ebook sites - download free PDFs the legal way

Did you know that there are plenty of quality books out there, that you can download for free in a legal way?

Here are some of the best free ebook download sites available:

• Free computer books is probably the best site to download software or computer programming related ebooks. It's probably the first site I would check when trying to learn a new programming language, or improving my computer skills in a very specific subject.
• PDF geni is a search engine specialized in finding free ebooks in PDF for download. It even offers search term suggestions and a glimpse at the hottest search terms.
• Project Gutenberg it's the good old initiative of turning every classic with expired copyright into a free downloadable ebook. So if you are looking for a classic book to download, check that page. And if you want a bunch of interesting suggestions, try the top 100 most downloaded ebooks.
• Google book search started somehow like Project Gutenberg, storing PDF versions of classic books. But now it has grown much bigger thanks to interesting agreements with book publishers. And now you can download plenty of quality ebooks, modern of classic, with no cost at all.

With Internet, knowledge has no barriers (and nope, I'm not talking about piracy). So go download some free quality ebooks and PDFs at those sites and increase your knowledge!

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YouTube hacks: URL tricks

YouTube Hacks: URL tricks

Did you know you could hack YouTube options using different URL parameters? It's a simple trick of writing query values in the video URL.

You can view and embed high quality videos, download YouTube videos, auto start playback from a part of the video, disable other YouTube related videos, and even bypass regional video restrictions!

Take a look at the whole YouTube hacks and URL tricks in the original post at makeuseof.com!

By the way, I wonder if this hack to bypass the regional restrictions would work for users in the United Kingdom as a trick to access high quality music videos, avoiding the UK YouTube music block.

Source: makeuseof.com YouTube URL tricks.

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Number of IE 8 users

What's the number of IE 8 users?

Did you wonder how is Internet Explorer 8 doing? You can take a look at the real time market share of IE 8 since the new version of the web browser was released.

It's interesting that there was an usage drop of IE 8 with users going back to Explorer 7. But with the so called compatibility view button (which renders a webpage in IE 8 like the previous IE 7 would do) there shouldn't be any problem at all. More info about this here.

And now, the number of Internet Explorer 8 users continues growing steadily.

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Open source software lists

Free and open source software listing

Fortunately, nowadays there are plenty of quality free software to perform many PC tasks. I recently talked about some of the best free open source applications. And here are some of the best free apps listings.

Open Source Living is a website with an excellent design and a complete and accurate classified listing of free open source software.

FOSSwiki (Free and Open Source Software wiki) is a wiki based website that you can update with any new free and open source application.

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Sevenup: say no to old Explorer

Sevenup: say no to the old Internet Explorer versions

If you ask me about what web browser to choose, I would suggest you to install Firefox because its customization capabilities and ease of use, or Chrome because it's really fast loading webpages.

But I'll have to admit that Microsoft Internet Explorer has been improved a lot in its latest releases (mainly because its interface was a copy of inspired by the graphic interface of Firefox). And now we are very close to the improved Internet Explorer 8 release.

There's an interesting open source javascript project that encourages users to upgrade user versions to Explorer version 7 an higher: Sevenup. Add this simple line of javascript and then you can even require the upgrade to access your webpages, or leave it just as a suggestion for outdated users.

Another similar project is the IE6 Upgrade Warning which also features translated warning messages and a carefully designed layout to encourage users about updating their web browsers.

It seems like a good initiative for a safer web browsing (and to reduce the headaches of website designers).

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Error free emails

Gmail undo send

Have you ever sent an e-mail and immediately thought that you should have aborted that sending? Google has thought the same and has included this feature in Gmail as a part of the Google Labs options: the undo send feature.

If you enable the undo send labs option, you will have 5 seconds to click the undo send button. Most sending mistakes are discovered immediately after sending an e-mail, so 5 seconds would be enough. No more wrong recipients, and mispelled words!

Don't forget your e-mail attachments

My most common mistake is to send an e-mail with a missing attachment, which is followed by an embarrasing "Subject: the attachment" email.

Combine the previous feature with the useful Gmail Labs forgotten attachment detector and forget about this common mistake.

Send only emails when your mind is enough focused

There's also another feature to avoid sending something you later regret: Mail Goggles tests your mind with some simple math problems - if you are too tired working overnight to solve such problems, you better have some rest and retry sending that later.

With all these Gmail features, I hope all our e-mails become error free from now on!

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Chrome javascript experiments

Chrome Javascript experiments

When you mix a web browser that quickly handles Javascript (Chrome) with the features of the latest HTML and CSS versions plus advanced Javascript libraries, you can obtain Javascript based webpages that seem programmed in Flash ActionScript.

Still skeptical? Then check out these Chrome Javascript experiments site. I really like this Javascript balls experiment.

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500 Mbps DSL

A DSL of 500 Mbps over copper wire

Ericsson has just unveiled a new DSL based technology that is capable of reaching transmission speeds of around 500 Mbps over copper wiring.

Nevertheless, this technology only works by bonding 6 pairs of copper wiring (which would only be possible in homes with 6 different telephone lines). And the length of the copper wiring should be rather short, so the target homes should be near the local exchange.

The expensive optic fiber is the future, but new DSL approaches as this one are always welcome. Practical implementations will never reach this 500 Mbps bandwidth, but we should expect a DSL speed increment in the near future.

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Defending copyright with a click

Discover copyright infringements with a right click

I recently showed you a way to find image copies with TinEye. But, did you know that there is a TinEye Plugin that allows you to quickly search for image duplicates?

The image search plugin is available for Internet Explorer and Firefox, and it makes searching for images as simple as right clicking on them (without the need to submit an image file or URL).

But be careful! If you install the image search plugin you will find that checking the popularity of your photographs through Internet or defending the copyright of your images and pictures may be an addictive task!

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Advanced Image Search

Advanced Image Search thanks to TinEye

Have you ever wondered whether the images on your website are being used somewhere else? Do you want to know whether your images under creative commons licences are famous all around the web? Or do you want to discover copyright infringements and plagiarism? Now you can, thanks to TinEye.

TinEye.com is the first reverse image search engine on Internet. That means that you provide an image or image URL, and TinEye performs a lookup of usages of such image throughout Internet.

Nevertheless, TinEye still has some limitations. The database of images where the searches are performed is still somehow small (only a few billions of images, which is far from the huge amount of images available in Internet). On the other hand, every time you perform new searches in TinEye the image database is increased with such new information.

But the most surprising fact about TinEye is that it will find image copies even when they aren't exact matches. TinEye can find duplicates even if they have been resized, cropped, renamed and somehow edited. TinEye uses the small snapshot or fingerprint of the submitted images to create the image database where the data used for comparison are stored.

I carried out some experiments and I found even image duplicates that were trimmed, downscaled, filled with noise and turned into grayscale images.

What are you waiting for? Give TinEye a try and tell me what you found!

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lphant 4 fake

LPhant 4 is a Fake

From the original post, Lphant 4.0 is a fake, at Triple Clic.

One of the best P2P hybrid clients (ed2k + torrent) till now, lphant, is no longer available at its original webpage. Its latest real version is lphant 3.51.

A company has taken over the webpage, and the new version lphant 4 is not the well known P2P client: it is a fake.

Be careful about installing lphant 4, because we can lose all of our downloads currently in progress. And what is even more important: if we don't keep the lphant 3.51 version installer, we will also lose the option to reinstall lphant again, since lphant version 4 overwrites the former version. In which once was the official webpage of lphant they have erased the previous versions, and they are deleting links to download the older version throughout the main download webpages.

Quote from Wikipedia:

On March 2009 Discordia Ltd. got by force the lphant domain, by using legal methods. In the past, it has appllied the same tactic with success on the open source project Shareaza in 2008.

Discordia Ltd. is a group which attacks P2P clients and file distribution. In the Lphant case, it got the domain but didn't got the software, because they want to eliminate the orignal Lphant with this procedure:

Lphant advertising software suggests the user to upgrade to the new version 4. You visit the official website of lphant in the hands of Discord, download and install a program. This program deletes the previous version. This program is a fake, a costume, is not compatible with Torrent or eDonkey. At this point the user discovers he's lost lphant P2P client, and the page to download the previous version (v 3.51) no longer exists.

Lphant developers are deciding to continue its strategy, but is presumed to be limited because some had to sign a legal agreement with Discordia, which handed the page.

Source: Wikipedia-EN

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Find users frequent questions

Find you users' frequent questions

We recently saw that only webpages with quality content will be successful in the new Search Engine Optimization scenarios. But you cannot write quality content if you don't know what your users need.

A very good way to give your users what they need is finding out their most frequent questions. What do they want to know that is related to your business? Answer such questions, provide useful content and earn your potential customer's trust.

This question search tool is a quick way to find questions related to a specific topic. You should try searching questions concerning the following subjects:

• The main keywords of your site.
• Your offered services: what do you sell / build / provide / talk about.
• Your brand name, and other similar brands.
• The name, brand or model of your products.
• Related tools or accesories.

Remember these quality content writing tips. Discover new and unsuspected user needs through frequent user questions, and satisfy these needs, building this way high quality content.

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