Did you know that ALT + back arrow is the same as clicking the “Back” button on your browser?
They bought their house 16 years ago and it had a full bath and one with just a potty and a sink off the living room. The years came and went, they and their kids stacked more and more crap on some shelves they had put across the potty door and it gradually faded from memory. They rediscovered the long-lost potty when they re-carpeted and had to dumpster bunches of shit. It was literally a “wow, we forgot we had a potty in here!”
Pigs. Utter, filthy people. I can’t stand to be in their house for more than five minutes and then I have to go home and shower afterward. In the outside world they look perfectly normal; however, their house interior is like one of the bad ones on the BBC series “How Clean is Your House?”
racer72 - Can you tell me where your CD changer was? I recently bought a used Mercury Sable wagon. The control panel looks like there should be a 6-disc changer, and the manual said it would be in the cargo area on the right. But darned if I can find it!
StG
Netscape (and, I believe, other Mozilla-based web browsers with an e-mail reader) store your inbox as a single text-based file in a particular directory, making it great for archiving. For years, I struggled with clearing enough room on a single CD-R to back it and everything else up (the INBOX file was over 400 MB), and wondering why it seemed to stay that big even after I deleted a bunch of the e-mails.
Then I discovered that Netscape (and Mozilla-based browsers) don’t actually delete mails you delete from a folder - only hide it from view. THEN I discovered this command called “compress folders” that clear out all those hidden mails.
That 400MB+ file immediately and quietly shrunk down to a few KB.
Ditto (so do I).
Sorry if this doesn’t really fit, but I am still angry that I figured out how to do cruise control on my Honda Civic AFTER I drove from San Jose to Las Vegas and back. :smack:
I wanted to turn right back around and do it right.
My wife drove her Jetta for eight years with the seat all the way down at its lowest setting. One time, she actually drove while I was a passenger and she complained about the seat height, and I asked her why she didn’t raise it. She looked confused.
She was absolutely stunned when I showed her how to raise it. Two minutes after that I was showing her how to use the tilt wheel, which she also managed to not know about for seven years.
She also though that to cook popcorn in a microwave you had to use the ‘popcorn’ button. She thought this did something special until I showed her it just used a conservative time setting to keep from burning the popcorn.
Timely thread for me: just two days ago I discovered that my car, which I’ve had for 2.5 years, has little joysticks for adjusting the side mirrors from inside the car. :smack:
This is only the 3rd car I’ve ever had, and the last two did not have little joysticks: the side mirrors had to be adjusted manually, outside of the car. I guess I just assumed that this car was the same way, but still I felt very unobservant when I finally noticed them.
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My Taurus has a cd changer button on the radio! I’m gonna have to check my trunk!
I learned this trick last week: you know how Firefox remembers stuff you enter in web fields? Like, you type “st” and a little menu lets you pick “steve johnson” so you don’t have to type it all?
Well, with some services, those autofill menus get overloaded or get stuff in them that you don’t want others to see. I used to think there was no way to get rid of them other than to clear all offline content, losing all my handy history in the bargain.
But, I just learned, you can selectively delete the stuff you don’t want by typing the first letters, scrolling with the arrow keys down to the entry you want to delete, and pressing SHIFT + DELETE. Yay! Now people won’t see “goat porn” on the list when I’m trying to Google “Good Times starring Jimmy Walker”!
I own a Taurus as well and thought that the CD button on the dashboard was just for a feature that wasn’t in my model. Your post gave me hope though. I rooted around in the trunk but couldn’t find the cd player. The spare tire wasn’t secured completely, so it wasn’t a total loss though.
Could I trouble you to give me a more thorough description, or perhaps a picture or two if you’re looking for something to do? Thanks a bunch.
Mom and I are going to look for the CD changer in her Taurus later, as I told her about this thread. If we can’t find it, though, I’m coming back to this thread.
Or you could just press BACKSPACE.
And to return from the page back, you can press SHIFT+BACKSPACE
Sgt Schwartz
One day someone showed me a shortcut for filling out webfroms that contain a drop-down list of states. Highlite the drop-down and type ‘tt’ ( for Texas anyway) and then just hit enter.
I own a Honda Civic 99 and I would always lock the door with my key because I couldn’t push the lock down on the inside if the door was open. A friend of mine who’s a car salesman told me that all you had to do was pull the handle out halfway while you push the lock in. It’s some sort of safety feature that prevents (helps) you from leaving your keys inside.
When I was little I had a few Voltron toys. After years of playing with the yellow lion figure I realized that the “ears” opened up revealing a pair of laser beam guns. That was good day.
I was sitting at work, watching a job this week, and was bored enough to read my owner’s manual.
And lo! There’s a code to turn off the seatbelt dinger! O frabjous day!
So I hopped around to the driver’s seat and started following directions, turning the truck on and off, clicking and unclicking in the specified order.
Nuts. It didn’t work. I’ll just have to continue to ignore it. (I don’t wear my seatbelt on sites, there’s too much getting in and out.)
If that was on the board, was that me? I remember giving that tidbit of advice to someone way back when…if it was, it’s good to know that I can be useful once in a while. I must show this thread to my wife…
Thank you.
In Firefox, if you hit CTRL+Tab, you’ll cycle through all of the tabs on the current window. I was looking for that feature for a long time, but when I found it, it was by accident.
Beware! That little habit has forced me to use my AAA card on several occasions.
I was out shopping with a friendgirl once, and she bought a ton of stuff including a tall lamp. When we got back to her car, I reached into the trunk, pulled the lever and folded her rear seat down. She was amazed; she had no idea her rear seat could do that.
Yeah, mine looks like that too, but there’s no CD changer in the trunk (although presumably I could get one installed if I really wanted one). I asked the dealer when I bought it, just to be sure!