From the Tips Box: Explorer Hotkeys, Drill Shavings, and Carrying Clothes [From The Tips Box]
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Author: Antonio Pierce
Author: Antonio Pierce
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Readers offer their best tips for using advanced hotkeys for currently selected items in Windows Explorer, managing shavings that fly around while drilling, and transporting clothes short distances without dropping anything. More »
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@chris0089: you can quit firefox with ctrl + shift + q its the command to close window i use it as i have permatab and can’t ctrl + q my last tab
blood_vampire
@chris0089: On Windows, I don’t like using alt + f4, so I remapped it using AHK: ^q::Send !{f4}
ETA: I suck at AHK, but there’s a way for it to detect which window is in focus so that it only works with firefox in focus. You can combine it with GetEmSteveDave’s link to remap the keys in firefox. Your question was for windows, not a mac, right?
goodywitch
@chris0089: [support.mozilla.com]
GitEmSteveDave’siTouch
@Whitson Gordon: No need to apologize. Y’all on Lifehacker actually put a link in the story body to do it. If someone can’t click the link….
GitEmSteveDave’siTouch
Speaking of hotkeys, does anyone know how I can customize Firefox hotkeys?
I want to quit Firefox via Ctrl + Q, but it lacks in Windows
It exists in Linux distros when I run a Linux distro via Virtual Box and browse through Firefox
I’m not sure if Mac users get a hotkey to quit Firefox…
chris0089
@Fauxe: haha I knew someone would. Target ftw
Whitson Gordon
@_Ko0LaiD_: I do not believe the gallery layout actually adds clicks to the meter, since it stays on the same page. And unfortunately, it’s out of our control. If you want to avoid the gallery, you can do this, however: [lifehacker.com]
(I’m not sure if that particular script is currently working or not, but there may be another one if you search userscripts.org).
Whitson Gordon
Mo’ clicks mo’ money. Get rid of the Gallery layout.
_Ko0LaiD_
i got that very same shirt
Fauxe
@Sirobin: D’oh! Apologies for the fumbling of the postings!
DaveyNC
I learned a similar tip to the bore one from the Adam Carolla podcast. When drilling into the ceiling, take a basketball or something similar, cut it in half, and drill through that creating a sort of dome to catch all the bits from falling on top of you.
And as far as carrying clothes, I make a bundle by either stuffing it into another shirt or wrapping it in a towel. But that’s more for dirty clothes and taking it to the washer.
Benguin
@BigGreenMonster: Like this:
DaveyNC
A trick for containing messes while drilling into walls… I usually grab a sheet of printer paper, and use masking tape to tape the 11″ side to the wall right below where I’m drilling. Then I take the bottom two corners, roll ‘em a bit so they make a bit of a funnel, then fold up the bottom. You make a pocket that catches all the crap that falls down.
I’ve seen guys use a similar trick to the DVD thing, except with a 5 gal. plastic bucket, when using hole bits to drill drywall in ceilings for lighting and electrical boxes.
AmphetamineCrown
@#c20528405: this should help
actually, it probably didn’t
mfusion
Neat idea for the drilling. Sometimes when I’m drilling into a wall, I wield a shop vac in the other hand to suck up the chunks. Like when a dentist is drilling into a tooth.
tomsomething
@Jordan10la: That’s what he said.
Sirobin
@BigGreenMonster: I was using a paddle bit or spade bit to drill the hole, as shown below. I took the cover off of a stack of DVDs as also shown below and pushed the bit through a hole in the DVD cover and all the shavings were fully contained inside the DVD cover.
DaveyNC
@BigGreenMonster: I was using a paddle bit or spade bit to drill the hole, as shown below. I took the cover off of a stack of DVDs as also shown below and pushed the bit through a hole in the DVD cover and all the shavings were fully contained inside the DVD cover.
DaveyNC
@Jordan10la: Stacks of CD/DVD-Rs often come with a topper which is like a clear plastic CD with a hole in the middle for the spindle to go through.
What I believe the tip means is that if you put that down on a surface and drill through the spindle-hole, it’ll keep the shavings together. If that’s not what the tip means then I’m stumped too.
BigGreenMonster
I don’t really get the hole part.
Jordan10la