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I recently revisited Red Interactive and found some new characters in the sourcecode of the flash file. I thought I would share them with you here.

“nay nay give me some hay” = “ed”

“dead men tell no tales” = “nub”

“jiminy cricket!” = “hopper”

“the last straw” = “cameljoe”

“surley you jest” = “jester”

“rumpelstiltskin is my name” = “unclesam”

“may i please have some blueberry pie?” = “gordon”

“i shot a man in reno” = “jailbird”

“i dreamt i was a butterfly” = “sun”

NEW CODES!

“happy halloween” = “skely”

“the funk of forty thousand years” = “skeletor”

“trick or treat” = “shakspeare”

“smell my feet” = “minuteman”

“baby got back” = “fatback”

“nay nay i never got any hay” = “dropdeaded”

I love the Windows Vista Aero Flip3D feature, but unfortunately I have to stick with Windows XP for software reasons. TopDesk is a great little tool that will give you the features of Aero Flip3D on Windows XP and more. TopDesk features several different rotate modes, flip styles, color customization, window labels, and more. There is also a feature to quickly show the desktop by placing all your windows at the bottom edge of the screen (F11). You can ALT+Tab to view a vertical view of all open windows.

Keyboard Shorcut tips

• ALT+TAB = Flip, Grid, Spatial (Depending on settings)
• F11 = Minimize your Windows (toggle) works great.
• Tip : Use the mouse wheel to scroll through windows when in tile mode.

Got a favorite piece of software you think would go great with TopDesk? Send me a Tip to tips@timmatheson.com

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If you use Firefox you are probably familiar with the tab feature. Tabs allow you to organize open windows in a tabbed based environment from within Firefox. There is a hidden shortcut not known by most users using the scrollable wheel of the mouse and the SHIFT key. If you hold down SHIFT and Scroll your mouse wheel up or down you will navigate back and forth through the history of the current active browser tab. For example if you want to quickly go back a page or two simply press and hold the SHIFT key and scroll your mouse wheel down. This method of navigation also works in Internet Explorer. The shortcut is the same and I tested it in IE6 and IE7

If you’re used to navigating application menus by hitting the Alt key, this won’t be a hard system to adopt. Traditionally, when you hit Alt on a normal Windows app, the focus goes to the application’s File menu. From there, you can navigate the menus by hitting the underlined letter. Office 2007 has taken this a step further.
Via [LifeHacker.com]