This ted
talk by David Pogue which is about technology, it's about 10 basic things which
most of us think we know but in actual we don't know.
So
starting from the first one whenever we have to scroll down on the website we
use scroll bars for it so instead of doing that use space bars which scrolls down one page so
we don't have to use the shift key to scroll back up again mouse and waste your
time.
Also on
the web, when we're filling in one of these forms like our addresses, most
of us know that we can hit the Tab key to jump from box to box to box. But
what about the pop-up menu where we put in your state/city? Don't open
the pop-up menu. That's a terrible waste of calories. Type
the first letter of your state over and over and over. So if you want
Karachi, go, K, K, K. If you want Islamabad, go I, I, and you jump right to
that thing without even opening the pop-up menu.
Another
one when the text is too small what we do is hold down the Control
key and hit
plus, plus, plus. We make the text larger with each tap. It works on
every computer, every web browser, or minus, minus, minus to get smaller
again. If you're on the Mac, it might be Command instead.
This one
is for most of the Smartphone users when we're typing on our Blackberry,
Android, iPhone, don't bother switching layouts to the punctuation layout to
hit the period and then a space and then try to capitalize the next letter. Just
hit the space bar twice. The phone puts the period, the space,
and the capital for you. Go space, space. It is totally amazing.
Also
when it comes to cell phones, if we want to redial somebody that we've
dialed before, all we have to do is hit the call button, and it puts
the last phone number into the box for us ,and at that point we can hit call
again to actually dial it. So we don't need to go into the recent
calls list, so
if we're trying to get through to somebody, just hit the call button
again.
Another
one Google is not just a webpage it's a dictionary as well we just have type the word "define" and then the word
you want to know. You don't even have to click anything. There's the
definition as you type. It's also a complete FAA database. Type the name of
the airline and the flight. It shows you where the flight is, the gate, and the terminal, how long till it
lands. We don't need an app for that. It's also a unit
and currency conversion. Again, we don't have to click one of the results. Just type it into
the box, and there's your answer.
While
we're talking about text, when you want to highlight .When we want to highlight a word, we
don't have to waste our life dragging across it with the mouse like a newbie
what it takes is just a double click the word. We don't delete what we've
highlighted. We can just type over it. This is in every program.
Another
one Google is not just a webpage it's a dictionary as well we just have type the
word "define" and then the word you want to know. You don't even
have to click anything. There's the definition as you type. It's also
a complete FAA database. Type the name of the airline and the flight. It
shows you where the flight is, the gate, and the terminal, how long till
it lands. We don't need an app for that. It's also a unit and currency
conversion. Again, we don't have to click one of the results. Just
type it into the box, and there's your answer
Shutter lag is the
time between pressing the shutter button and the moment the camera
actually snaps. It's extremely frustrating on any camera under 1,000
dollars. As whenever we want to cover a moment we can't which is because the camera needs time to
calculate the focus and the exposure, but if we are smart enough to
pre-focus with a half-press, leave our finger down, no shutter lag! You
get it every time. So now with this trick we have just turned our $50 camera into a $1,000 camera.
The
reason behind choosing this ted talk was that for a decade I have been a
technology user but still I didn't know majority of these things so didn't want
to spent another decade by remaining unaware of such smart tricks so thought of
sharing this with everyone as 'knowledge increases by sharing not by saving'-Lyrika.
Another one Google is not just a webpage it's a dictionary
as well we just have type the word
"define" and then the word you want to know. You don't even have
to click anything. There's the definition as you type. It's also a
complete FAA database. Type the name of the airline and the flight. It shows you where
the flight is, the gate, and the terminal, how long till it
lands. We don't need an app for that. It's also a unit
and currency conversion. Again, we don't have to click one of the results. Just type it into
the box, and there's your answer.While we're talking about text, when you want to highlight .When we want to
highlight a word, we don't have to waste our life
dragging across it with the mouse like a newbie what it
takes is just a double click the word. We don't delete what we've highlighted. We can just type over it. This is in
every program.
Also when it comes
to cell phones, if we want to redial somebody that
we've dialed before, all we have to do is hit the call
button, and it puts the last phone number
into the box for us ,and at that point we can hit call again to actually dial it. So we don't need to go into the recent calls list, so if we're trying to get through to
somebody, just hit the call button again.
Another one Google is not just a webpage it's a dictionary
as well we just have type the word
"define" and then the word you want to know. You don't even have
to click anything. There's the definition as you type. It's also a
complete FAA database. Type the name of the airline and the flight. It shows you where
the flight is, the gate, and the terminal, how long till it
lands. We don't need an app for that. It's also a unit
and currency conversion. Again, we don't have to click one of the results. Just type it into
the box, and there's your answe
The reason behind choosing this ted talk was that for
a decade I have been a technology user but still I didn't know majority of
these things so didn't want to spent another decade by remaining unaware of
such smart tricks so thought of sharing this with everyone as 'knowledge increases by sharing not by saving'-Lyrika.
Shutter lag is the time between pressing the shutter button and the moment the camera actually
snaps. It's extremely frustrating on any
camera under 1,000 dollars. As whenever we want
to cover a moment we can't which is because the
camera needs time to calculate the focus and the
exposure, but if we are smart enough to
pre-focus with a half-press, leave our finger down, no shutter
lag! You get it every time. So now with
this trick we have just turned our $50 camera into a $1,000 camera.
The reason behind choosing this ted talk was that for
a decade I have been a technology user but still I didn't know majority of
these things so didn't want to spent another decade by remaining unaware of
such smart tricks so thought of sharing this with everyone as 'knowledge increases by sharing not by saving'-Lyrika.
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