
You may know that this December we have launched a seasonal desktop widget -
the Karma Calendar.The widget is your portal to top tips, fun items, blog posts, and even some Chameleon pressies all the way up to Christmas, updated daily to your desktop.
You can get it here:
http://www.chameleonnet.co.uk/widget/install.htmlWhat's more -
this is a call for your Top Tips... Got a favourite web technique or an online marketing ace up your sleeve? Don't be selfish, it's nearly christmas, share it in the comment trail on this blog post and the best ones will make it onto the widget feed as a 'Guest Top Tip' to everyone's desktop.
In the spirit of things, here's a top tip from me too...
Top 3 Browser Keyboard Shortcuts (feel free to disagree!)
Working on a laptop, I don't always have a mouse with me and trackpads are fiddly. Keyboard to the rescue though:
1. I reckon tabbed browsing cuts down my web surfing time by at least 5%.
CTRL + T opens you a new tab in all current versions of IE, FireFox and Opera. Nice. (plus CTRL + F4 to close a tab is handy)
2. Wearing your 'W' key down to a nub entering web addresses? Bit of a lazy typist? Type the main bit of the domain you want and then
CTRL + Enter will stick the 'www' subdomain and the '.com' top level domain round it for you. (If, like me, you're UK based, in FireFox you can
change the way this behaves to add .co.uk instead - credit to the 'How-To Geek').
3. Need to get home quick?
ALT + Enter takes you to your browser homepage. For quick searching, I use Google as my homepage because the cursor focuses on the search field on page load - so ALT + Enter allows me to type my search without moving the mouse - even quicker than me using the google search bar embedded in the browser.
...Looking forward to hearing your top tips!
Dan