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Keyboard Shortcut #5 – Surf through your opened windows

Hi Fellow Keyboard shortcuts lovers!

A new week has started with new keyboard shortcuts to learn or to review. As it’s Monday, you’re probably not ready for complicated stuff! J

So let’s start nice and easy with a couple of keyboard shortcuts you probably know about…and if you don’t, those are definitely shortcuts that you SHOULD be using every day!

Last week, we focused on How to use keyboard shortcuts in your Internet browser, specifically the tabs creations, navigating through the tabs and closing a tab. (BTW, I forgot one way to close a tab: it’s “ Alt ”, then “ F ”, then “ C ”…but you’re probably not going to use this one J)

This week, I’d like to focus on general use, common to pretty much any software, browser, games and other applications.

Did you know that you could navigate through your opened windows from your keyboard? YES, it’s possible…and easy!

Take a look the picture: You can see that I have 5 opened windows.

- Hold the “ Alt ” button and press the “ Tab ” button several times. You will see the blue square moving from the left to the right. Release the “ Alt ” button when you reach the selected window.

- Hold the “ Shift ” button and press “ Tab ” if you went to far. You will move the square backward.

If you are running Windows Vista AIRO (sorry?) or Windows 7 (lucky you!): try to hold the “ Windows ” key (and “ Shift ” to go backward) and press tab. The result is the same then Alt+Tab but in 3D!!

On Windows XP, Windows+Tab will have you navigate through your opened windows, but in the navigation bar, without preview. Then press enter to display the page.

So, what do you like the most:

  1. Alt + Tab
  2. Windows + Tab
  3. I’m still mouse clicking…

Try it and leave a comment to let us know! And if you like it, share it with your friends!

Do you have any shortcuts to share? I’ll be happy to write about it!

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Keyboard Shortcut #4 – Internet Tab Shortcuts

In my series “how to save the battery of your wireless mouse” we reviewed how to create a new tab in a unique browser window (Ctrl+T), and how to navigate through your opened tabs (Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+#Number…).

Today, I’m going to tell you how to close a tab without closing the whole window.

Yes, I know you could easily take your mouse and click on the little cross that you can see on the right of each tab. But what if you want to do it from your keyboard? Now that you are aware or trying to get used to more keyboard shortcuts, you want to learn more, don’t you?

Well, closing the current opened tab is very easy:

- Hold the “ Ctrl ” button and then press “ W ”.

The current tab is supposed to be closing and the tab on its right is supposed to show up. (Unless it is the last tab on the right and assuming that you have several tabs opened)

That’s it for today, but I’ll be back soon with more keyboard shortcuts for you.

Do you have any shortcuts to share? Try this one and leave a comment to let us know! And if you like it, share it with your friends!

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Google Adwords Custom Thank You Video

Over 1 million of Google Adwords users advertised in the last 10 years on the most popular search engine, generating billions of dollars for Google.

As Adwords campaigns are the main source of revenue for Google, the giant decided to send high tech Thank You video to every Google Adwords advertiser.

The Thank You card is customized with the name of the company appearing several times in the video. Companies will see their names written using a few different exaggerated technologies, such as the Moon Laser Varian 9.000.000!

Here is our Google Adwords Thank You Video…if you haven’t seen it yet!

On top of the great thank you video, you will be able to see some interesting stats about Google Adwords and Consumers’ online habits. As everything is built in flash, (which is by the way not good for Search Engine Optimization J), we can’t provide you a direct link to these Google Adwords stats but you will have access to them clicking on the video link above.

Did you receive a Google Adwords Thank You video as well? What do you think about this expensive way to thank your customers?

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BNI Power Vancouver at Steamworks – Referral Marketing Power

Join the world of referral marketing with BNI Power in Vancouver.
BNI is a professional marketing organization specializing in word-of-mouth referrals, and BNI Power is one of the several chapters in Vancouver BC.
As BNI allows only one person per business specialty, you will be the only one in your industry growing your business through referrals within your chapter.BNI Power meets every Thursday at 12pm at Steamworks, Vancouver. Currently, BNI Power is looking to fill some key positions to increase their referral based business:
- Banker
- General Contractor
- General Insurance
- Bookkeeper
- Sollicitor

Becoming a member of BNI Power will allow you to introduce yourself and your business in 60 seconds to more than 20 professionals every week. Another privilege of becoming a member of BNI Power is that you will be able to showcase your business for 10 minutes to your BNI Chapter and the guests several times per year.

Today at BNI Power, Eric Ayache, President of Virtually Canadian Inc, is presenting us his company.
Founded in 1996 in Vancouver, Virtually Canadian is a website marketing company whose core service is Search Engine Optimization. Recently, SEOmoz interviewed Bing and Google, who have confirmed that links shared through Twitter and Facebook have a direct impact on rankings. This means that Social Media and Search Engine Optimization now go hand in hand to improve your rankings and attract more visitors to your website. With the proper set up, as demonstrated here for BNI Power, Social Media Marketing is easy, fast and efficient…

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New LinkedIn Share Button For Websites

A new LinkedIn Share button has been released, giving the opportunity for your website's visitors to share your content on LinkedIn with your business network.
People will be able to see how many times each specific content has been shared on LinkedIn with 2 of the 3 displays available.

How can you can the new LinkedIn Share button to your website? Just copy paste a few lines of code and you are good to go! Here is the script to be inserted to display the new LinkedIn Share button:

<script type="text/javascript"
src=”http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js” ></script>
<script type="in/share" data-counter="top"></script>

Just change the data-counter="top" for data-counter="right" for an horizontal display or for data-counter="none" to hide the counter.

Enjoy!

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