I’ve been using Google Reader for quite some time now – really like it. I used to use a desktop aggregator because it was a lot more flexible and customizable, but being tied to a single machine eventually did that one it for me. I’ve found Google Reader to be very reliable, and it gets nice new features from time to time. A couple of weeks ago they added a nifty way to view their keyboard shortcuts, something I haven’t been taking advantage of. While using Google Reader, simply hit the "?" key, and you’ll get a nice overlay showing all the keyboard shortcuts (perhaps ironically, users of aggregators may have to click through to see the following brief screencast): (oh, you may want to bump down your volume a bit before hitting play, I seem to have inadvertently pumped up the volume)
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2 Responses to “Random Tuesday Tech Tip #4 – Google Reader Keyboard Shortcuts”
Great tip — thanks!
how could we use this kind of technology for libraries? In the catalog? databases?
Oooh, I like that idea Stephanie! It’d have to be a three-stroke combination if we were going to use the “?” since there are of course lots of times folks would want to actually type a question mark in. Guess the first thing we need to do is figure out how Google’s doing this in Reader – anyone know? Oh, well I do now that I look at the source code: http://screencast.com/t/Wj3GUu0YVg
I suspect it’d be easier to get that inside a catalogue than it would a database – who’s first?