THE ULTIMATE TECH HACKATHON: 30+ TOOLS & SHORTCUTS TO USE TECHNOLOGY MORE EFFECTIVELY JIM SPELLOS TUG CONNECTS MARCH, 2020 tug
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THE ULTIMATE TECH HACKATHON: 30+ TOOLS & SHORTCUTS TO USE TECHNOLOGY MORE EFFECTIVELY
JIM SPELLOS
TUG CONNECTS
MARCH, 2020
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TODAY’S HACK-A-LICIOUS OFFERINGS•Shortcuts galore
•Office tips & tricks
•Your digital security
•Way cool websites & apps
•And maybe a surprise or two?
NOUN: HACK; PLURAL NOUN: HACKS1. - A ROUGH CUT, BLOW, OR STROKE. "HE WAS SURE ONE OF US WAS GOING TO TAKE A HACK AT HIM"(IN SPORTS) A KICK OR HIT INFLICTED ON ANOTHER PLAYER.- A TOOL FOR ROUGH STRIKING OR CUTTING, E.G. A MATTOCK OR A MINER'S PICK.ARCHAIC- A CUT OR GASH.
2. INFORMALAN ACT OF COMPUTER HACKING.A PIECE OF COMPUTER CODE PROVIDING A QUICK OR INELEGANT SOLUTION TO A PARTICULAR PROBLEM."THIS HACK DOESN'T WORK ON MACHINES THAT HAVE A FIREWALL“
”A STRATEGY OR TECHNIQUE FOR MANAGING ONE'S TIME OR ACTIVITIES MORE EFFICIENTLY”.
These Really Are Hacks!
THE THREE BEST HACKS YOU MAY HAVE NEVER KNOWN ABOUT
Ctrl Shift T
Command – Shift – T on a Mac
THE 26 BEST KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Courtesy of www.blog.Kensington.com
WAIT…THIS ONE SHOULD BE ON THE LIST
Ctrl Shift V
If you need to paste without formatting…
COMPRESSION SAVES SPACE!
Great for PowerPoint &
Word documents!
SPIKE IT IN WORD!
Ctrl
Ctrl F3
F3
Shift
WINDOWS POWER HACKS•Alt + Tab
•Ctrl + Esc
•Ctrl + Shift + Esc
•Virtual Desktop: Win + Ctrl + D (Win + Tab to show all)
CAN YOU EVER FIND A FILE USING WINDOWS SEARCH?
Agent Ransack
CLIPCLIP THIS!
Do you use a clipboard manager?
MY DAILY DOUBLE…
Flipboard Pocket
YOUTUBE HACKS Keyboard What It Does
Add gen at start of URL Downloads video
Add gif at start of URL Allows you to create a Gif from YouTube video
Spacebar or K Pause/play video
Left/right arrow keys (J & L keys, too)
Jumps increments of 5 seconds (holding down Ctrl key creates 10 second jumps)
1-9 Advances by that percentage (eg. pressing 2 advances 20% into the video)
F Shows in full screen (hit F again to go back)
Up/down arrow keys Increase/decrease volume by 5%
VIDEO FORMAT CHANGING
EVEN BETTER THAN HANDBRAKE?
www.online-convert.com
COMPRESSION RULES (AGAIN)!
www.TinyPNG.com
IMAGE CONTROL
www.picmonkey.com SnapSeed
REMEMBER KIDS, ONLY USE PICTURES YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO USE!
SO WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT OPEN SOURCE
Way Cool Listing – From MakeTechEasier.com
PROTECT YOURSELF - VPN
Tunnel Bear
MORE PROTECTION –PASSWORD MANAGER
Dashlane
GOING STEALTH
NOT-SO STUPID BROWSER TRICKSShortcut What it Does
Ctrl + P Save a webpage as a PDF file
Alt + Home Immediately returns tab to your defined home page
F3 Perform a text search on the current page
Ctrl +, Ctrl –Ctrl 0
Ctrl + increases text sizeCtrl - decreases text size Ctrl 0 returns text size to 100%
SEARCHING GOOGLE MAGICALLY
Hint: It’s your friend, the right mouse click
HOW MANY EXTENSIONS DO YOU HAVE?
But not just for Chrome...Firefox has great Add-Ons as well!
NUMBERS ARE GOOGLE’S FRIEND
•Do math
•Conversions
•Tip calculator.
LIVE CAPTIONING
Live Transcribe (free)
WE NEED A VOLUNTEER(IT’S NOT A TECH HACK, IT’S A LIFE HACK!)
WANT TO CREATE SOME COOL ANIMATION?
Doodly
THE GREAT SPACE BAR TRICK
PHONE (OR COMPUTER) BATTERY DYING?
Charge it in Airplane mode for (slightly) quicker results!
MEET THE LENS’S
Office Lens Google Lens
TRAVEL TIME
Hopper
YOUR MOST IMPORTANT HACK!
ICE Standard (or any similar app)
THE WAY COOL EXCEL TRICK
Excel’s killer shortcut – F11
NO, THIS COULD BE THE WAY COOLEST EXCEL TRICK
Currently, only available for Android phones
DON’T YOU WISH YOU HAD THIS WHILE STILL IN SCHOOL?
Photo Math
HAS THIS SESSION BEEN TOO LONG?
THANK YOU!
James Spellos, CMPPresident, Meeting U.
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