Internet Tips and Tricks

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Take advantage of tabbed browsing
Take full
advantage of tabbed browsing on all Internet browsers. While
reading an article or browsing a website, you may come across a link that
interests you. Any link to another page can be opened in a new tab so it does not interrupt your reading.
To perform this action, hold down the Ctrl
key and left-click the link. If you have a mouse with a wheel,
click the link by depressing the wheel instead of rolling it. Either of the
methods opens a link in a new window.
Tip: To open an new blank tab, press Ctrl+T at the same time.
You don't need the http:// portion of a web page
When
entering an Internet address you do not need to type http:// or even www. in the address. For example, if you
wanted to visit Computer Hope you could just type computerhope.com and press
enter. To make things even quicker, if you are visiting a .com address you can
type computerhope and then press Ctrl+Enter to type out the full
https://www.computerhope.com address.
Quickly move between the fields of a web page
If you are
filling out an online form, e-mail, or other text field you can quickly move
between each of the fields by pressing the Tab key or Shift+Tab to move back a field. For example, in
the example form below you can click in the "First Name" field type
anything and press tab to switch to the next field.
Tip: This tip also applies to buttons, if you press tab the buttons
can also be highlighted. Once a button is highlighted press the spacebar or enter to push the button.
Tip: With a drop-down box that lists dozens of options you can press
the first letter to scroll down to that letter. For example, click the drop
down box below and then press "u" to quickly scroll to Utah.
Bonus Tip: You can also use the autofill feature
to fill in common form fields.
Know
your Internet browser shortcuts
There
are dozens of different shortcut keys that can be used with Internet browsers.
Below are a few of our top suggested Internet browser shortcuts.
- Press Alt+D or Ctrl+L to
move the cursor into the address bar.
- Hold down the Ctrl key and
press the + or - to increase and decrease the size of text. Ctrl+0 will
reset the text.
- Press the backspace key or
press Alt key + left arrow to go back a page.
- Press F5 or Ctrl+R to
refresh or reload a web page.
- Press F11 to make
the Internet browser screen full screen. Press F11 again to return to the
normal view.
- Press Ctrl+B to
open your Internet bookmarks.
- Press Ctrl+F to
open the find box to search for text within the web page you are reading.
How Automatically Repeat
YouTube videos
YouTube
does not allow you to automatically repeat your favorite videos, but there are
plenty of third-party services that can assist you. The following steps will
teach you how to put any YouTube on repeat.
How
to put a YouTube video on repeat
First,
you'll need to browse to the video you'd like to repeat. Then, you will edit
the URLin
the address bar,
in the manner shown above below.
Note: The video you choose doesn't matter, the URL below is one
we've chosen as an example to illustrate the process.
Editing Steps
1.
Erase everything in front
of youtube. In the example above,
"https://www" is the section that is deleted.
2.
After youtube, type
repeat to make the URL look like the one shown below, and then press
Enter.
3.
After pressing Enter,
your browser will open a page with a URL similar to the one shown here: http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=dD40VXFkusw
4.
This page will repeat
your video until it is closed.
Tip: This page also has a counter to let you know how many
times the video has been repeated.