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Lightning Dial: Custom Grid Of Shortcuts For Contacts, Settings & Other Actions [WP7]

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Even though the Start screen offered by Windows Phone 7 is pretty good, with its big live tiles and metro interface, at times one does tend to wish that there was some way to pin the exact same thing you want to that area. For instance, won’t it be really useful if you could text a particular friend by just tapping a tile? While Lightning Dial is not really an alternative for the Start screen in WP7, it does allow Mango users the luxury of creating customized shortcuts, and then accumulating them in one place for easy access. The app can roughly be compared to a launcher in Android, as it lets users gather shortcuts and app icons in one place without actually disturbing the Start screen. You can use Lightning Dial to easily access Settings toggles and create customized shortcuts. Read More

Reddit Glide: Browse Links Easily With Keyboard Shortcuts [Chrome]

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Reddit is quite an entertaining website that lets you find lots of new and funny content, but unfortunately, browsing Reddit can be a hassle, as you either have to open each link in a new tab or in the same tab and then click back or switch tabs each time to go to the main page. Not only is this tiring but if you open all links in the same tab, you might forget what an image caption was or why you found a link interesting. Reddit Glide, a Chrome extension, lets you browse Reddit in a two-pane view with multiple keyboard shortcuts. You can use J/K keys to open links in a new tab, pressing the J/K key instantly opens and rearranges the two windows side by side. As you open new links, the older tabs are automatically closed and replaced by new ones, a maximum of six tabs can be kept open at the same time. Read More

iShortcuts: Create & Pin Settings/Contacts Shortcuts To iOS Home Screen Without Jailbreak

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A few days back, we covered the method to get settings shortcuts on your iOS Springboard without jailbreak, but that procedure was not perfect, far from it. Using the unnamed web service involved, you can only pin a limited number of settings shortcuts to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch’s homescreen. iShortcuts is a new web service that provides similar functionality, but with one added bonus; you can create your own shortcuts with it, and for any part of the OS. Moreover, the list of built-in settings shortcuts is much more extensive. Read More

Pin A Website Logo To WP7 Start Screen With Web2Tile [How To]

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One good thing about Windows Phone 7 is the metro interface, and among the things that distinguish this interface from its competitors are Live Tiles. Where all other mobile platforms just have the same old stagnant icons, the tiles on WP7 can give the user quite a lot of information at a glance. The home to these Live Tiles is the Start screen in Windows Phone. On the Start screen, you can pin just about anything, ranging from apps to shortcuts, and even webpages. If you have ever pinned a webpage to your phone’s Start screen, you must have noticed that doing so puts a miniature screenshot of the opened page on the said screen. This seems out of convention with the metro interface that focuses on not wasting even an inch of space on your phone's main screen. Fortunately, you can take matter into your own hands and with a simple bookmarklet, it is possible to pin any webpage’s favicon or logo to the Start screen instead of a small image of the page. Read More

How To Get Settings Shortcuts On iPhone Home Screen Without Jailbreak

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People having a jailbroken iOS device are always showing off the cool stuff that their iPhone or iPad can do, but most others value their iDevices too much. The fear of voiding their devices' warranties keeps them from jailbreaking them. So it is always nice to see something that only jailbroken users can avail make its way to every iOS user. SBSettings is a Cydia tweak which allows jailbroken users to place shortcuts for different sections of the Settings menu on the Springboard, but now, courtesy of the (currently nameless) web-based settings shortcuts offered by developer Jeff Broderick, users without jailbroken devices can do that too. All you will need to do is to install these shortcuts as certificates to your iDevice, and everything will work out fine from there. Read More

How To Use Siri To Update Your Twitter And Facebook Accounts

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Who doesn’t know about iPhone’s latest game-changer, Siri, by now? The voice-based personal assistant lets you perform a variety of tasks on your iPhone 4S without even having to look at your phone’s screen. But still, the tasks that Siri can perform are limited. You can not, for example, ask Siri to go to your Facebook account and update a status for you. Also, there is no direct way of getting Siri to send your tweets to Twitter, either. But we say directly because there is a workaround for that scenario, using which you can simply dictate your tweets or status messages to iOS’s latest addition. You will not need to have a jailbroken iPhone 4S in order to use this method, as this is just a rather clever use of some of Siri's existing functionalities. Read More

Message Icons: Compose SMS & Emails Via Springboard Shortcuts [Cydia]

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If you are a smartphone user, you must have realized the importance of performing a task in the least possible steps. To most of the people, it might not appear to be a critical thing if an app takes a few extra seconds to launch, but once this lost time begins accumulating, you are sure to get a bit annoyed at your phone's slowness. That is where shortcuts have the potential to come into play. iOS takes special care to provide its users with shortcuts wherever possible. The popularity of Cydia tweaks like SBSettings is a testament to the usefulness of shortcuts on an iPhone. Back in the days of dumb-phones, shortcuts on mobile devices were pretty common. A tap of the down key would take you to the ringtones menu, or a long-press of hash key launched the messaging options. Message Icons aims to achieve a similar functionality by allowing jailbroken users to compose a new text or e-mail right from their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch’s Springboard. Read More

AeroJump Is Jump List Style Tabbed Application Launcher

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AeroJump is a Jump List style application launcher to manage and launch application, file and folder shortcuts. You can add an item to AeroJump with simple drag & drop and create multiple tabs with upto 20 shortcuts each (within AeroJump). You create and name tabs which may help you easily locate and launch items. As an example, you can create a tab named Application Shortcuts and add up to twenty frequently used shortcuts to help speed up your workflow. AeroJump requires no installation as it is a portable application. A tabbed application launcher is quite an interesting concept as it enables housing several shortcuts in easy to sort categories and also provides the luxury of not having to allocate additional desktop space for viewing the extra shortcuts within the app launchers interface. Read More

Access Facebook Features Through Home Screen Shortcuts On Your Android

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There’s certainly no stopping the consistently growing popularity of the social network giant Facebook; neither on desktops nor on mobile devices. And with quite a few other third party app developers devising Facebook-integrated apps of their own (such as INQ Social Sync and its whole suite of widgets), Android users are certainly never short of options when it comes to accessing their favorite social network client on their device conveniently. While INQ Social Sync allows users to access the Facebook client on their device through different widgets, Facebook Shortcuts, as its name implies, lets them access the Facebook client through multiple (customizable) home screen shortcuts. What better than pre-assembled home screen shortcuts to access your Facebook Wall, Inbox, Friends, Events at al! Read More

Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts [With Screenshots]

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The new Windows 8 operating system was recently launched with a number of new enhancements. Other than the Metro based interface and other changes, it also came with a slew of new keyboard shortcuts. In this post we will show a number of Windows 8 hotkeys which can help you use Windows 8 more conveniently. These include keyboard shortcuts which are applicable on both the Metro interface and Windows desktop.
Important Update: We compiled this list of shortcuts when Windows 8 Developer Build was released, and since then Microsoft has made some major User Interface changes, therefore some hotkeys may not respond in Windows 8 Consumer Preview and next iterations. We've covered 30 most useful hotkeys for Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which you can check out here.
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Add Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts With QuickShift For Chrome

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Chrome comes equipped with a multitude of keyboard shortcuts that allow you to perform some basic functions like opening and closing tabs and windows, accessing Chrome options, history, downloads page and repositioning and switch between tabs. However, all these functions are limited to the window you’re working in. QuickShift For Chrome is a Chrome extension that extends keyboard navigation functionality in Chrome across different windows allowing you to move tabs to different windows, merge multiple tabs open in different windows to one window and reposition an active tab using keyboard shortcuts. Read More

Launch Each App In A Different Language With Localized Apps [Android]

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Imagine using Google Maps in Italian while the default language of your Android device is set to English. How about going through your news feeds in Finnish whereas the rest of your device guiding you through menus and helps screens in your local language. Such customization is now possible with Localized App for Android and credit has to be given to XDA-Developer’s member thiagolr. Localized Apps is a quick solution for users who prefer apps of their liking to be displayed in a specific language without changing the default language of their device. By placing ‘localized’ shortcuts of your favorite apps on your home screen through Localized Apps, you can always launch them with the preferred language. Exit the app and you are back with the default device language. Read More

Create Web Shortcuts And Open Them Directly From Chrome Omni Bar

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The Omni bar quickly picks up on possible sites you might want to visit from your browsing history or bookmarks when you start typing in its name. It gives preference to the sites you frequently visit and you still have to pick out the right site from the dropdown list. Web Shortcuts is a Chrome extension that lets you define commands to open a website. Websites can be assigned any letter or word; which will open the assigned site when typed in the Omni bar. Read More

Assign Keyboard Shortcuts To Open Your Favorite Websites In Firefox

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Speed dialing and bookmarking may have made it easier to open your favorite sites but can they beat out keyboard shortcuts? To answer that you need to ask yourself if you use icons and toolbars to get around or do you turn to your keyboard whenever you have a choice. If you’re the avid keyboard user, you might like the idea of using keyboard shortcuts for opening your favorite sites. Sailor Shortcuts is a Firefox extension that lets you create keyboard shortcuts for your ten favorite sites and use the arrow keys to move between tabs. Read More

JumpPad Is A Mac Style Launchpad For Windows

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JumpPad is a Mac OS X style Launchpad clone for Windows. It uses features like hot corners, adds start menu shortcuts to the launcher by default, has configuration options for icon size, folder paths to add shortcuts from and a reasonable memory footprint of 25 MB. It scans for specified folders and lists the available shortcuts to the launcher. Read More

Bad Shortcut Killer Removes Broken Shortcuts From Start Menu & Desktop

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If you have been using Windows for a long time with hundreds of software installed and uninstalled in the past few years, you are bound to have some unwanted shortcuts in your start menu and the desktop. While some these shortcuts can be easily identified and removed, others are not that easy to locate. For instance, the shortcuts made in the Start Menu and within a directory of the desktop can be easily overlooked. Bad Shortcut Killer is a utility developed to resolve this problem. It quickly finds and lists down bad shortcuts from the start menu and your desktop, which can then be removed. Read More

WinThunder Adds Stylish Jump List In Windows 7 System Tray With Weather Updates

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If you want to view the latest weather in Windows 7, the only solution would be to load the Weather gadget. Most users do not prefer using gadgets anymore since it is considered more of a Vista thing. The other solution is to use WinThunder, the newly released app which shows the Weather on top of the jump list that it adds in the system tray. The purpose of the jump list is to add your most-used or favorite shortcuts, files, websites, applications, and folders for quick access. Read More

Fix Broken Shortcuts In Your Windows System With Broken Shortcut Fixer

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We do a lot of things every day with our computer, we compose documents, make presentations, download data, watch movies, and much more. In doing all these tasks we often make shortcuts for our convenience, especially on the desktop.  As we move our files around from one location to another, we can end up having broken shortcuts and no memory of the destination of the original file. Broken Shortcut Fixer helps you delete and repair all broken shortcuts in your system. Read More

gMote: Use Mouse Gestures To Access Useful Commands And Actions

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Over time, keyboard shortcuts have found so many versatile uses that you just can’t help overlapping two or more different shortcuts meant for different purposes. With the shortcut keys for keyboard so tightly jammed and hard-to-remember, it’s high time you start looking for a better alternative to execute PC commands and actions. gMote offers a brilliant solution, enabling you to perform a wide variety of tasks, such as launching applications, opening menus, and much more all with the simple gestures of your mouse. Read More