Today I learned that Alt + Ctrl + arrow key rotates your screen display ninety degrees (left tilts it to the right, right to the left, down gets the whole thing upside down, up brings it back to normal).
What did you learn?
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Last week I learnt the phonetic alphabet
What is this phonetic alphabet ?
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta etc etc.
The army uses it.
I learned it when I was a kid, but I find it helpful nowadays on spelling out things to people on the telephone at work (email addresses and shipping container numbers and such).
Today I learned that a group of hedgehogs is called a prickle.
LOL I love it
Today I learned that kissing in high winds doesn't actually warm you up.
LOL! You're quite the romancer these days huh Starzy
Hell yeah
I learned that it helps to speak the language of the people you're trying to communicate with.
I learnt black clothing really does attract heat. :P
I learnt that doing a seven hour shift hurts....LOTS!
Useful shortcuts -
(in the following, 'Windows Key' refers to the key between the CTRL and ALT keys on the left side of most computer keyboards that has the 'Windows Flag' logo on it).
Windows Key + M minimizes all windows to the desktop
Windows Key + E opens Windows Explorer
Windows Key + F opens a find dialog for Windows.
CTRL + F opens a find dialog in your browser
ALT + D selects the address bar in your browser, ready for typing something in (I find this very useful)
Windows Key + Pause/Break brings up your System Properties
If you type a word into your browser's address bar, such as 'idolblog', then holding the CTRL key and pressing Enter will make it 'www.idolblog.com' - saves having to type 'www' and '.com' at the end.
Holding the ALT key and using the arrow keys lets you navigate forward and back a page in your browser.
Pressing ALT + Home keys takes you to your browser's home page.
Next, a very old one...Holding down the ALT key and pressing TAB switches between windows/programs on the taskbar. You hold down ALT and keep pressing TAB to switch between them until you've chosen the one you want, then u let go.
Ohh the minimize one is helpful
Yeh, and it's Windows Key + SHIFT + M to get them back the way they were
I think that Windows Key + D means "show desktop" or similar. It might even be faster than M
But it does basically the same thing..
Thanks so much for them! *just tested them all out* hehe
I learned that I can stick pictures on the back of my phone battery and they will stay there, and therefore I won't have to look for them if I want to look at them frequently.
Like photos of moi?
Only if I want to look at you frequently..
Today I learnt when pies come out of the oven the are hot.
I learnt that the girl in The Culture Clue is a guy :|
LMAO!
I believe that is Boy George.
LOL i was singing Kharma Chameleon on Singstar today but i cudln't stop laughing at the video of Boy George and my guy mates going 'OMG is that GUY'
lol
Hehe i'm so good at that song
I watched it (without singing) and I thought *A girl with a guys voice? hmm :S *
Then, we had a bbq, and I was singing this song, my uncle came in and said "Ive had enough of this queer song, Jeremy (my little bro) sung it all the way from Auckland to New Plymouth"
I said "Queer?"
Mum said "Well, yes, look the guy singing is wearing lipstick. He's gay you know."
Oh dear, My brother (my other one) said she (When it was really a HE) looked 'pretty'. :s
OH I sung that the other day, and I go
"ohh my god that guy is so gay"
and My mother goes
"Yeah but back in those days they didn't know he was, it was how everyone dressed"
Then later on in the song..
Me: "Haha that guy looks like George Michael!"
Mum: " It is George Michael"
Me: "Ohh no wonder he looks gay."
Today I learned that my room actually looks better without 50 or so posters adorning the walls.
Today I learnt that although I can climb through the whole at the bottom of my duvet cover (where you put the inner in) it's really hard to get back out again ... going backwards anyway :-$
I was so thinking of making this thread!! haha
No It doesn't. I just tried!
It's not the same for every computer - it depends on what kind of graphics card you have as to what it can do. Like, I have an NVIDIA grpahics card, and it has a lil icon on the taskbar near the clock. One of the settings there lets me rotate the screen.
Not every graphics card lets you rotate the screen.
Doesn't work for me either..
Odd, it worked for me and my friend? :S
Maybe coz I'm on Firefox?
Nah it's your whole screen not your browser. :S It was freaky.
Hmm well it doesn't work with everything minimized either. Anyway, I'ma going to bed and waiting for free txting like the cheepo that I am. Night.
lol roll on free txting! OMG
it's Saturday - it's free!
Oh I just can't wait for my 021!
*027*
ditto
But at least we have $10 text. That makes up for it
Today I learned never to kick a toilet seat. :$