What is a life-hack? Life-hacking is a popular term used for "hacking" one's life. It is like a simple how to guide to doing everyday things simpler. For example: Keyboard shortcuts like Cmd (Control on the MAC) + C key is copy, Cmd + V key is paste. There are entire websites dedicated to the subject: http://lifehacker.com/
Many useful tools or methods that are designed to nudge us out of our habits and into more efficient ways of accomplishing tasks no matter how simple.
We will watch many in class and get a chance to try some of them in the real world to see if they work. For our blog discussion, do you know a life-hack? Describe it for us? Have you taught others?
Hayyyy Guiseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ... The dis-assembly went well ... great work ladies :)
ReplyDeleteHi Mylynn. The purpose of the blog is not to report on the status of class but to engage in discussion about the content of the post. Unless of course the class content was relevant to the discussion.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I am glad the dis-assembly went well.
The useful hacks from David Pogues Ted Talk:
ReplyDelete1) Use the space bar to scroll down a page. Hold the shift key and the space bar at the same time to scroll back up again.
2) Tab between boxes on online forms. When there’s a pop-up menu to input details of your state, type the first letter of the state to scroll through options.
3) To make web text larger, press control +. Mac users, make that “Command +.”
4) Don’t bother with punctuation on your smartphone. Hit the space bar twice for a period and the next letter will be automatically capitalized.
5) Hit the call button of your phone to redial the last person you spoke to. No need to go into your contacts.
6) To highlight a word, don’t drag across it with the mouse. Double click it. And don’t bother deleting text; just type.
7) Avoid shutter lag by half pressing down the button of your camera before you take a picture. For folks who still use cameras.
8) Press “b” to black out a slide (or “w” to white it out). And make sure people are paying attention to your wonderful presentation.
Hey everyone! My life hack knowledge pretty much spans over Microsoft
ReplyDeleteWord shortcuts. However, I was aware of life hacks 2,6, and 7 on David Pogues' list. Also, on InDesign, which I mainly use for yearbook layouts, I know a few shortcuts to make it a lot faster and easier to place pictures (Ctrl + D), which can take a REALLY LONG TIME otherwise. Moreover, in Photoshop (also for yearbook) there is a way to record actions (such as cropping and gray-scaling) for one picture, and then have the program automatically repeat the same actions to a whole set of pictures (batching). This feature is mostly used when we have to crop portraits of all the girls.
Nice Annie. Keyboard shortcuts can make all the difference sometimes when working in a program. They allow you to work faster, more efficiently and make you look more professional in the real world. Some really advanced software applications like Avid (high end video editing) come with their own keyboards which forces you to learn the shortcuts. But you can really tell someone knows what their doing in a program when they're utilizing some simple hacks like shortcuts.
ReplyDeleteHere's a look at the Avid keyboard:
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To me, that keyboard looks kind of like a little kid's toy with all of the colors, but at the same time seems extremely confusing. This keyboard takes life hacks a bit too far. I found a link to a shortcut list for the keyboard, and it's 13 pages long! I'm sure using several core shortcuts on this keyboard would make editing a lot easier, but I don't think memorizing 13 pages of shortcuts would be worth someone's time.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to the shortcut list:
http://resources.avid.com/SupportFiles/attach/Keyboard%20Shortcuts.pdf
Nice Annie. Avid is what professionals use for movie production. Takes a long time to learn how to use one of those but if you want to be a pro, there are no shortcuts.
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