Posted by Ed Maurer
Always on the lookout for a way to use a key stroke instead of moving my mouse, I discovered the wonders of the F6 key when I was web browsing today. Sometimes you just want to type in an address in the address bar but you need to use all of those muscles to grab your mouse, move the little arrow up to the address bar, and click that pesky left mouse button. Then you hope and pray that you don’t press an arrow key because the whole field won’t be highlighted again. Doing all of those actions would burn about 1/2 a calarie. Way too much for me. While listening to the Buzz Out Loud Podcast, they mentioned the F6 key’s goodness and it has saved my life, or at least half a calarie. Pressing the F6 key while in your web browser will highlight your address field and allow you to start typing the web address of your choice. I know his works in both IE7 and Firefox 2.0, but have no clue about the other browsers out there. Thank you F6 key, you’re my hero!
December 30, 2006 at 1:34 am
Wow! How come we never knew this?? I just recently found out about the CTRL + enter combination. Type in the website without the “www” or the “.com ” and hit control enter and voila! Both are automatically entered. My 16 yr. old daughter says I’m the only person on the planet who didn’t know this already. Combine the F6 shortcut with CTRL enter, and we might be able to save 1 whole calorie
January 11, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I like the Windows key+L to lock youe system when you walk away.
The only problem is that the calaries saved are used by walking, but if your going to lunch…
August 16, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Thanks for sharing this information. Really is pack with new knowledge. Keep them coming.
July 26, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Well what will they think of next! I tried all of these wonderful shortcuts, and I am impressed! I love it! Thanks for sharing!