Useful tips for all! I'll start.

If your Chrome crashes and you Find you've lost all your tabs, don't panic! Press Ctrl+Shift+T.

This restores your previously closed session (press multiple times if you had multiple windows).
Also good for when you accidentally close a window or some tabs.

Now, it's your turn to share something :o.

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Not sure if life hack , or just pure Genious @ work.

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Frank Semyon disagrees.

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If you want to tie your hair into a pony tail, get a vacuum cleaner, wrap a hair band around the nozzle close to the end, suck the hair-tie-ee's hair into the nozzle, turn off the vacuum and push the hairband off the edge of the nozzle so it wraps around the hair!

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instructions unclear, got **** stuck in the vacuum

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ihVOeK2TZY&start=30
was laughing from this one some time ago :D

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xD

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We've all done it. It's what made me make the move to the mohawk style (don't use hair straighteners, can be a lot worse than the vacuum)

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picture!

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No!
Wrong hair!

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Since keyboard shortcuts are so popular, here are a few favorites (some were already mentioned):

Space to page down, Shift+Space to page up (works in browsers only, in other applications you need to use the dedicated PageUp and PageDown buttons)
Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- to zoom in and zoom out the text, Ctrl+0 to reset it to 100%
Ctrl+T for new tab, Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen closed tab
Tab to move the cursor to the next field in a form, Shift+Tab to move to a previous field
Ctrl+Tab to move to the next tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab to move to the previous tab
Alt+D to go straight to the address bar
Ctrl+J to open the Downloads screen
Ctrl+Left Arrow or Ctrl+Right Arrow to move the cursor a whole word left or right
Ctrl+Shift+Left Arrow or Ctrl+Shift+Right Arrow to select the next or previous word
Ctrl+Shift+Home to select everything from the current cursor location to the beginning of the sentence
Ctrl+Shift+End, as above, but to the end of the sentence
Ctrl+NumPadPlus to automatically expand columns in a table view to match widest content (e.g. Explorer Detail view for folders)
Ctrl+C in message boxes to copy the text of the dialog, including the buttons text
Windows+D to show the desktop, similar to Windows+M which minimizes all windows but keep message boxes and other windows that can't be minimized visible.

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Pretty sure Alt+D is browser dependent. Curretnly using chrome but think its L and K for address/search bar in firefox

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Alt+D works in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Ctrl+L works too (in all three).

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Press F6 for address bar. AFAIK it works in every browser.

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Lol, "afk" is easier to type than "busy".

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Patience comes with age. XD

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This comes out as being a thought of someone of really young age.

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If a window (e.g. browser, file explorer window, etc.) gets stuck off screen, you can use Start+Left / Start+Right to move it back to somewhere you can see it.

Also quickly maximize and minimize windows using Start+Up / Start+Down. Good for when parents walk in unexpectedly :3.

As well, Start+Space allows you to take a look your desktop without putting your mouse over that little button next to the clock in the taskbar. It also doesn't minimize all of your windows, like what happens when you press the button -_-;.

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Huh, start+space doesn't work for me like that, I just have to hover over the little button. Of course, I have multiple language keyboards installed, so it switches languages for me, so it might be working for other people.

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If the rest work, then I dunno - probably your keyboard layouts... But, if none of them work, then you may need to enable Aero theme effects or something like that.

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The rest work.

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OH, you must be on Windows 8... Why didn't I think of that sooner, I use one of these awful things for work.

Yeah, I dunno how to do it, there...

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No, I'm on 10.

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Well, i know even less about that...

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I must be completely stupid here but what do you mean by Start? This sounds like a good tip that I will use a lot but I can not work out what you mean by 'start'. I know I'm going to kick myself.

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It's the Windows key.

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Ah okay didn't know that was also known as the start key, thank you for clearing that up!

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Sorry, brain.

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Okay maybe I did know it was the start key, so so sorry brain.

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THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN MANUALLY DRAGGING IT. As you may be able to guess I put windows on half the screen quite a lot. Thank you so much for this.

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Lol, no longer have to spend a good 30 seconds trying to see if you have your window at exactly half size...

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random ones - might only serve as a reminder:

don't take "things" for granted

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. - William Blake
^ Enjoy your derping time, but be sure to have some kind of knowledge below your belt, to tide you beyond it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. " - H. H. Munro

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If you don't want to get a bear angry give whatever the hell he is asking for.

Like your wallet and/or your first born.

Don't deny anything to special snowflakes.

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I spent my money buying a wallet, but now I don't any money to put in it D:

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Don't deny anything to special snowflakes.

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Cover your clothes in duct tape to make them waterproof.

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You maybe want to try with bees wax ;D

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Except duct tape isn't water proof, it's water resistant.

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Not really a hack, but I kill bugs with office rubber bands(not slingshot rubber).

  • It's accurate and effective up to 1.5-2 meters(depending on your nasty bug/rubber band)(some bugs can be really scary, or you are just lazy to walk 1 meter).
  • It's faster than your hand, so your bug won't be able to get away fast.
  • And most important, it takes much less effort than doing by hand.
  • Also it's very safe for children because is not poison(unless you hit them in the face, which hurts, a lot. But they don't die with that so it's good).
  • It makes you feel like you were an archer :D
  • There is no better feeling than killing that annoying mosquito that won't let you sleep without even getting out of bed.

Not tested on cockroaches(I haven't seen any since I started using this method of killing(maybe that explains it)).

BUY IT NOW!!!

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I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee...

A cockroach will probably just writhe for bit and run away.

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I just imagined smashing my hand into a bug and breaking all my fingers ^^

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Alt+F4 always help
Shift + Del

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Until you accidentally Shift+Del the wrong thing.
Spends an hour looking for programs to recover deleted things to no avail ..........

Btw, I still Shift+Del everything, though. Screw using the Recycle Bin.

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I think most people know this, also this is a random video of the life hack :P

This is amazing!

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This is the best way to deal with this little bastards...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbUF-VlOySg

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After you've cleaned your glass shower doors (soap scum is evil)...

Spray them weekly with RainX (or the equivalent in your country).

Soap Scum will take much longer to accumulate if at all.

---- How to remove Soap Scum?

You can use lemons if you have them handy, cut in half and squish them on the glass while wiping with them.
Or the same method listed above for silverware. (Go search it out)
Only difference is to make it stay on glass, cover the glass with the solution and then place a towel on it to keep it in place.

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  • If you are lonely, dim all lights and put on a horror movie. After a while it won’t feel like you are alone anymore.

  • If you ever trip and fall in public, get up, laugh to yourself, and say to anyone looking: “Sorry, it’s just been so long since I’ve inhabited a body.”

These may or may not be some good tips, you decide.

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I'd say best tips of this thread, as I knew most of the computer related ones

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Except half of those aren't even hacks... just requests for hacks -_-

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Maybe you have read it wrong... It's imgur, not reddit

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  • When you're stalking admiring your victim future girlfriend, claim to look for insects for your insect collection when discovered.
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Useful-Thread Necro-Bump™

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  • If you to‎ok the key, please (1) activate it on your ac‎count, and (2) reply to let me know so that I can remove the link (otherwise your email ad‎dres‎s will remain visible).
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thanks a lot, took it

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Enjoy! :-)

7 years ago
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Firefox has this really cool thing called firegestures which makes browsing so much easier

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