Windows shortcut keys for common applications

June 21, 2008 · Filed Under Software · Comment 

This is a very common windows shortcut key to restart a PC or to open Windows Task Manager window. Don’t try this unless you require. I am a great fan of shortcuts with my desktop applications. Shortcut keys help provide an easier and usually quicker method of navigating and using computer software programs. These are commonly accessed by using the combination of Alt, Ctrl, and/or Shift in conjunction with a single letter. The de facto standard for listing a shortcut is listing the modifier key, a plus symbol, and the single character. Or in other words, “ALT+S” is telling you to press the Alt key and while continuing to hold the Alt key, press the S key to perform the shortcut. There are many websites giving shortcut keys for your regular desktop applications.

Try shortcuts given in shortcutworld.com. Shortcuts and description of Firefox, Winamp, Windows XP, Word, Excel etc. are explained nicely on the site. Also, Photoshop keys.

Photoshop Shortcut Keys

Keyboard shortcuts for Windows

WordPress Installation on Windows PC

April 3, 2008 · Filed Under WordPress · Comments Off 

Are you facing problems in setting up a WordPress blog site in your remote hosting space? If so, here is the step-by-step guidance to set up a demo site in your home PC prior to host it in a remote server. If you own a private domain for publishing your blogs is a true professional approach and a blogger can always get advantages from experimenting and customizing new templates, plugins etc. I always prefer such a working model of a server at my premises in order to test new theme templates and widgets in my own way. Hosting environment may differ for different blogging sites as well as other websites, can be with Linux or with Windows server, but the process for setting up a site is more or less the same.

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