Since we started with quick site access in Safari yesterday, I thought today is a good day to continue following the same line. How? Obviously, by providing you with a list of keyboard shortcuts that may prove useful in many situations, helping you to spare even more time!


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Okie-dokie, so let's see where should we start. Looking up, we see the address bar...so we'll start from there.

1. To highlight the text in the address bar, simply press Ctrl+L. That should help you avoid clicking there first. Once you have done that, you can copy and paste the current link in an instant, or type a new address(Alt+D has the same effect).

2. When it comes to tabbed browsing, Ctrl+T allows you to open a new tab.

3. If you want to close a tab, use Ctrl+W to accomplish this task.

4. To bring up the Downloads window, press Ctrl+Alt+L.

5. If you want to adjust text size, use Ctrl++ or Ctrl+-, as we all do in most browsers...

6. To move between open tabs, use Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab.

7. To check the items loaded by each site you are navigating, you can use the Activity window, accessible via the Ctrl+Alt+A shortcut.

8. To find text in a page, you should use the good old Ctrl+F shortcut.

9. If you want to use the Search Bar, simply press Ctrl+K. Easier than clicking and then moving to the keyboard to type again, don't you think?

10. To save the current page, use the notorious Ctrl+S shortcut, but beware that Safari can only save as HTML, so no MHT archives here!

This is it, I hope you will find the above useful, but feel free to let me know what I missed, because I am sure there are plenty of Safari keyboard shortcuts left...

Paving the way for the upcoming Safari review here, on SoftDistrict, I thought some tips and tricks would go just fine until then, and I will start by showing you how to quickly access your bookmarks in Safari. I will use the Windows version, since Safari's last version works simply great, and if you're using a Mac, my humble opinion is that Camino is a better browser. Anyway, let's get going, shall we?

First, let's add a new bookmark to the Bookmarks Bar, because those are the bookmarks ready to be accessed with the speed of light.

- Once the site you want to bookmark has loaded, press Ctrl+D, or open the Bookmarks menu and use the option there, as you can see in the screenshot below.



- Change the name of the new bookmark, if you want, and then press Add. Just be sure to add it to the Bookmarks Bar.



Now, we have the bookmark where it should be. For quick access, we're going to use a keyboard shortcut, and to know what shortcut you should use, simply look at the image below.



As you can see, this is the same as in Opera - Ctrl+1..9, and even the limit is the same, 9 sites available for quick access. If you send more sites to the Bookmarks Bar, only the first 9, from left to right, will be available via the keyboard.

That's all for today, I hope you enjoyed this small Safari lesson, but stay tuned for more in the near future, and prepare for the review(subscribing to our news by email would be a good idea, if you missed that so far;)).

Windows XP is still far from being outdated for a lot of people, but I am sure that the error reporting feature is something only a few users on this planet use, so why not disable it? Since there are only a few steps required to accomplish this task, get ready to leave those error messages behind!

- First, press the Start button, and then open the Control Panel.



- Click on System, and then open the Advanced tab.



- Press on Error Reporting, then select Disable error reporting in the window that opens.



As a final advice, if you are really sure about this, you can also choose not to be notified when critical errors occur, but I don't advise you to do that. This is it, I hope it was useful!

Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft, these are the ingredients of the story. No need to say anything about the first and the last, and Salesforce is a much younger company, founded back in 1999, in California. They are well established in the on-demand software market, specializing in on-demand Customer Relashionship management solutions. The most interesting part is that Google just forged an alliance with them, with the purpose of delivering online software to compete with Microsoft's packaged software...


Basically, we're talking about Google's software suite known as "Google Apps" to having applications included in software services offered by their new ally, Salesforce.

Yankee Group's analyst Sheryl Kingstone said "Salesforce.com and Google have changed the game again. This is revolutionizing the way people work," and this may prove to be true in the coming months, because it gets easier to keep your data online, rather than having to store everything on your computer, back it up on a regular basis, and so on.

"Google and Salesforce.com have always had similar models and philosophies about delivering innovations made possible by the Internet. Together, we are making more applications and services available online so customers can focus on building their core business rather than the applications that support it," said Eric Schmidt, Google chief executive.

Oh, my, things are getting really interesting, especially since Microsoft seems to have multiple problems at this time, with Yahoo's rejection and Vista customer (in)satisfaction being the biggest ones. Now, one of their toughest competitors just got a better position...

If you have a gun and you're using it for the wrong purposes, you end up in prison, and if you are using your computer or the computers at work for the wrong purpose, that could get you fired, or even worse. In today's story, playing dirty with his company's computers lead Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla straight to a federal prison, and not only for a few months...


The 40 years old Colombian man pleaded guilty in court to conspiracy, aggravated identity theft, and access device fraud. Between 2004 and 2007, he and his coconspirator had over 600 worldwide victims, and the funny part is that some of those that have lost their privacy because what Mario Bonilla did were employees of the US Department of Defense! Anyway, what did that guy do, after all?

During the period mentioned above, Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla installed keyloggers on hotel business center computers and Internet lounges, and by using them, he stole passwords and other personal data entered by those that used those public computers afterwards. After stealing the personal data, Bonilla and his partner used complex methods to steal money from the hijacked accounts, and bought various things, such as electronics or luxury travels to Hong Kong, France, Jamaica, and other places.

While the court pegged the actual and attempted losses at $1.4 million, Bonilla was sentenced to 9 years in prison, paying a restitution of $347,000, as well as 3 years of being supervised after the release. That should teach him, don't you think? Anyway, they surely need to keep an eye on him in prison, because if he gets near a computer...