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Brandon Martinez

Mac Tip: Navigate Text by Word

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If you use a Mac, there are tons of text navigation tools at your disposal. One of the little known is navigating text by word:

  • Move your cursor between words: alt + Left or Right Arrow Key. This lets you jump between words in a sentence. This is helpful when you find that you mistyped a word earlier in a sentence, and you don’t want to use your mouse to move your cursor to the right spot.
  • Move your cursor between paragraphs: alt + Up or Down Arrow Key. This lets you jump to the beginnings and ends of paragraphs, and is very useful when navigating large amounts of text.
  • Delete the previous word: alt+delete. If you want to delete the last word you typed, this combination is handy.
  • Delete the next word: alt+forward delete (fn+delete on laptops). Similar to the previous tip, this deletes the word in front of your cursor.

Do you have any other text navigation tips?

Update: Added the paragraph navigation tip.

 

The New (New, New) Facebook: My Favorite Update

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Facebook has been through several iterations. Through those, I think they have made a lot of great improvements. They’ve added more features for people to communicate and share with, added the ability for third parties to extend Facebook with custom apps, and allow for other web sites to share information within a user’s feed. However, with one of their updates, giving the ability of custom apps, a new form of spam has come. Continue Reading…

 

Facebook Feature Request: Daily Updates

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As far as social networking goes, Facebook is one the best out there. It has a huge feature set, can be extended by apps, and almost everyone I know has one. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t areas for improvement.

I honestly hate getting emails every time something occurs. Someone tagged me in a post or a photo, someone wants me to join Farmville or Mafia Wars, they think I’m a family member, etc, etc, and etc! I have over 5000 Facebook notifications in my Gmail (yeah, I don’t delete anything). It gets a little overwhelming.

Facebook, how about an option to subscribe to daily, weekly, or even monthly updates, instead of alerting me 500 times a day? Please?

Does anyone out there agree?