Windows second Start menu: Windows + X. Open clipboard history: Windows + V
Launch Voice typing: Windows + H. Use Emojji / Symbol: Windows + . or ;
Open Taskbar items: Windows + [Number key]. Open Desktop: Windows + D
screenshots: Windows + Shift + S
Alt 26 →, Alt 27 ←, Alt 24 ↑, Alt 25 ↓, Alt 29 ↔, Alt 7 •, Alt 254 ■, Alt 9 ○, Alt 1☺, Alt 15 ☼, Alt 184 ©, Alt 0177 ±, Alt 247 ≃
Recent files in Windows 10: “Windows + R” type “recent”
In Word, Save: Ctrl S. Save as: F12. Shift+F12: save (= Ctrl+S), Ctrl+Shift+F12: print
Spell & grammar check: F7 (& Outlook), Thesaurus check: Shift+F7
Chrome tips. Go to 1st, 2nd tab: Ctrl+1, 2... Jump to the rightmost tab: Ctrl + 9
Move to right tab: Ctrl+Tab, move to left tab: Ctrl+Shift+Tab
New Tab: Ctrl+T. Reopen last tab(s) closed: Ctrl+Shift+T
Go to address bar: Ctrl+L, go to search bar: Ctrl+E/K
Close current tab: Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4
Move focus to different item in toolbar: press Tab
Open a link in a new tab: Ctrl- click, in a new window: Shift- click
A website is down or step back in time: Type "cache:" and add the URL
Add bookmark: Ctrl+D
Go full screen: F11
Move cursor to address bar: F6
Disable Google Sign-in Pop-ups: in security settings, go to Signing in to other sites > Signing in with Google: turn off Google Account sign-in prompts
After an initial search is performed, F3 finds the next search value
Open a new Google Doc: type doc.new in address bar
Hyperlink a phone number in G Doc, Gmail: in link type tel:phone number ; e.g.: tel:1-800-800-800
Google search tips. Search for an exact match: Put a word or phrase inside quotes. Exclude words from your search: Put - in front of a word you want to leave out. E.g., jaguar speed -car. Combine searches: Put "OR" between each search query. E.g., marathon OR race. Search for a specific site: Put "site:" in front of a site or domain. E.g., site:youtube.com or site:.gov. Search for related sites: Put "related:" in front of a web address you already know. E.g., related:time.com. Search social media: Put @ in front of a word to search social media. E.g.: @twitter. Search hashtags: Put # in front of a word. E.g.: #throwbackthursday. Search for a price: Put $ in front of a number. E.g.: camera $400. Search within a range of numbers: Put .. between two numbers. E.g., camera $50..$100.
Zoom tips: To separate presentation and participants in 2 screens → go Full screen. Alt: Turn on/off the option Always show meeting controls in General settings. Alt+F1: Switch to active speaker view in video meeting. Alt+F2: Switch to gallery video view in video meeting. Alt+F4: Close current window. Alt+V: Start/stop video. Alt+A: Mute/unmute audio. Alt+M: Mute/unmute audio for everyone except host (for meeting host only). Alt+S: Launch share screen window and stop screen share (only works when meeting control toolbar has focus). Alt+Shift+S: Start/stop new screen share (only works when meeting control toolbar has focus) Alt+T: Pause or resume screen share (only works when meeting control toolbar has focus). Alt+R: Start/stop local recording. Alt+C: Start/stop cloud recording. Alt+P: Pause or resume recording. Alt+N: Switch camera. Alt+F: Enter or exit full screen. Alt+H: Display/hide in-meeting chat panel. Alt+U: Display/hide participants panel. Alt+I: Open invite window. Alt+Y: Raise/lower hand. Alt+Shift+R: Gain remote control. Alt+Shift+G: Stop remote control. Ctrl+2: Read active speaker name. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H: Show/hide floating meeting controls
YouTube tips / shortcuts: Fast-forward by 10 seconds: press “L”. Rewind by 10 seconds: press “J”
Pause / play a video: spacebar or “K”. Mute / unmute a video: press “M”
(De) activate captions: "C". (De) activate full screen: "F". Increase/Decrease volume: Up/Down arrow .
Hop around in a video: press a number for travel in the timeline , “5” for 50% into the video , “8" for 80%, “0” for the start
When paused, to move forward by a single frame: "," and to move back: ";"
PowerPoint Pressing F5 starts a slideshow from the 1st slide. Pressing Shift+F5 starts the slideshow from the current slide
In most Windows programs, F10 activates Menu bar or Ribbon, Shift+F10 = right-click a file, icon, link
Some more tips for: Google search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Docs templates (more)
When searching for a movie, type the title & "Google Drive"...
archive.today is an on-demand web archiving service: save current web pages.
world population clock tracks the world's population in real time
✺ Dec. 2020: For the first time, a German court used Alexa recordings to convict a man of killing his girlfriend by confirming he was on the scene at the time of the facts.
✺ France is the largest EU country in the EU, and Europe's third-largest country, behind Ukraine and the European portion of Russia. Around a third (31%) of France is forest and it is the fourth most forested EU country, after Sweden, Finland, Spain. France is sometimes referred to as ‘hexagon’ due to its six-sided shape.
The croissant was actually invented in Austria in the 13th century; an Austrian founded a Viennese bakery in Paris in 1839 and its kipferl became popular. The French made the their own version called the croissant due to its crescent shape.
The tradition of wearing a white dress originated in France in 1499 for the wedding of Anne of Brittany and Louis XII.
The Louvre is the most visited museum in the world.
Europe’s highest mountain is Mont Blanc in the French Alps, standing at a height of 4,807m.
French was the official language of England for 300 years (1066-1362) as William the Conqueror led the Norman conquest of England but the Pleading in English Act,made English the official language of government as French was largely unknown to the common people who had no knowledge of what was being said in court.
The oldest person who ever lived was a French woman Jeanne Calment (122 years, 1875 - 1997). She lived through the opening of the Eiffel Tower in 1889, two World Wars, the invention of television, the modern motor car, airplanes. She ate almost 1 kg of chocolate each week, smoked from the age of 21 until she was 117, cycled until the age of 100, She walked on her own until she was 115 when she broke her femur. Her tranquil state of mind and humour probably contributed to her long life (“That’s why they call me Calment”) she remained clear thinking up to the day she passed away. At her 120th birthday, when asked what kind of future she expected. “A very short one,” she replied. As she was without heirs, in 1965 a lawyer set up a “reverse mortgage” with her: he would pay 2,500 francs every month until she died, whereupon he would inherit her apartment. He was 47, she was 90 but she outlived him. He died 30 years later and his family continued the payments. By the time of her death, they had paid more than double the value of her apartment.
✺ The Spanish national anthem has no words
✺ North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can't buy Coca-Cola
✺ Tokyo is the world's largest city with 37 million inhabitants
✺ Japan is the world's most earthquake-prone country
✺ Gustave Eiffel originally pitched his tower to the city of Barcelona. As Paris was liberated in August 1944, Hitler ordered General von Choltitz to raze the Eiffel Tower & the rest of the city, he disobeyed. 30 replicas exist in the world incl. the half-scale model in the Paris Las Vegas hotel meant to be a full-size but was too close to the airport for comfort
✺ A New Zealander who doesn’t speak French memorized the French Scrabble dictionary (386,000 words) in 9 weeks to become French-language Scrabble World Champion
✺ Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza
✺ Martin Luther King Jr. got a C in public speaking
✺ Sweden has more islands than any other country (221,800, 1,000 of them are inhabited)
✺ Around one in every 200 men are direct descendants of Genghis Khan (16 million people)
✺ About 700 grapes go into one bottle of wine
✺ Jeans were patented in 1873, their tiny pocket was designed to store pocket watches
✺ 250,000 deaths in the US are caused by medical error each year. This makes it the 3rd-leading cause of deaths
✺ A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup for Uruguay in 1930
✺ Cats, like most four-legged mammals, have 5 toes on the front paws but just 4 on the back paws (maybe to run faster)
✺ All the ants on Earth weigh about as much as all the humans
✺ It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood
Clean an Electric Kettle with a Vinegar Solution
Bloquer les appels venant d'un pays (selon le préfixe) : Paramètres de l'application Orange Téléphone, puis Paramètres de blocage puis Ma liste noire, choisir Bloquer un pays puis dans la liste un pays puis appuyez sur Bloquer.