Stories on shortcuts

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio SR Series (VGN-SR19VN)

Crave These can be assigned as simple shortcuts to any application within Windows and appear as a small dock of icons at the very bottom of the Windows desktop. There are over the three customisable desktops, as mentioned earlier, giving you a total of...

16 July 2008, 15:52

ViewSonic VP2130b shows us the money

Crave Obviously, being the super-geeks that we are, we can get away with basic tasks like video editing or creating Javascript apps simply by using keyboard shortcuts and listening to hard drive clicking patterns, but this isn't an option for mere mortals.

Tags: viewsonic, resolution, inch, contrast ratio

2 May 2006, 12:19

Nokia 5330 XpressMusic: Lights 'n' sound

Crave The phone offers easy access to the forthcoming Ovi app store, as well as social-networking sites via home-screen shortcuts and widgets. Nokia has launched the Nokia 5330 XpressMusic phone, an 'edgy' music phone with customisable lighting controls...

11 March 2009, 9:32

Seven days of Vista -- day 3: Go go Gadgets crazy

Crave As standard, Vista ships with World Clock (an analogue clock), Feed Viewer (for RSS feeds), Slide Show (a small picture frame for digital images, which shouldn't be confused with SideShow), Recycle bin (duh), and Launcher (which lets you add...

Tags: microsoft, gadgets, widgets, gadget

25 January 2007, 11:03

Windows 7 appears on Torrent sites

Crave One failure is that it's hard to tell the difference between apps that are running and shortcuts that have been pinned to the taskbar" The first beta of Microsoft's next operating system has been spotted in the wild.

Tags: beta, operating system, consumer, taskbar

29 December 2008, 9:23

Optimus Pultius: Mini-OLED keyboard for big spenders

Crave you can attach the Pultius to your keyboard -- Maximus or otherwise -- and you'll be able to launch certain applications quickly or use some Photoshop shortcuts without memorising the key combinations.

Tags: keyboard, oled, optimus, maximus

23 July 2008, 10:29

Photos: Hands-on with the LG KP500

Crave Brush the screen to the side and you can access shortcuts to contacts and other apps, similar to HTC's TouchFLo interface on the Touch, and something the Renoir doesn't have. Two days ago we brought you news of a new LG phone, the KP500, but...

8 October 2008, 14:24

Live human experiment: five hours with Final Cut Pro

Crave There was a disc that contained some useful material I could use in the exercises -- it also taught me plenty of quick, easy keyboards shortcuts as virtually all the buttons on screen can be accessed through the keypad -- but I learnt quicker with...

Tags: human, material, clips, book

8 February 2006, 16:22

Internet Explorer 7 vs Firefox 2: battle of the browsers

Crave The File menu bar is in the right place, and the only navigation buttons are the back, forward, refresh and home icons, plus a couple of shortcuts that'll help you customise the browser and peep the latest headlines from your RSS feed.

Tags: microsoft, mozilla, favorites, tab

25 October 2006, 13:34

Save £100 by greening your PC's power bill

Crave Which is where keyboard and mouse button shortcuts come in. One way to ease the impact on your bank balance and the climate is to buy new super efficient kit, like LG's recent eco monitor. But an even smarter choice is to use free tweaks to bring...

18 August 2008, 11:25

The best Android apps

Crave An added advantage is that it also offers shortcuts to both the alarm clock and calendar functions of Android, which means you can easily set alarms or add appointments to your Google calendar -- all from the home screen.

24 June 2009, 16:48

Optimus Pultius: Mini-OLED keyboard for big spenders

Crave you can attach the Pultius to your keyboard -- Maximus or otherwise -- and you'll be able to launch certain applications quickly or use some Photoshop shortcuts without memorising the key combinations.

Tags: keyboard, oled, optimus, maximus

23 July 2008, 10:29

Google Chrome: Hands-on with the polished new browser

Crave Application Shortcuts is a feature that allows you to create desktop icons for Web-only applications, such as Gmail or Calendar. In its comic-book preannouncement of its new browser, Chrome, Google stated correctly that watching videos, chatting...

Tags: tabs, javascript, beta, tab

3 September 2008, 11:04