It’s time to play: Computer shortcuts I want for real life!
by that damn redhead on June 4, 2009
in Geekery
I had a really bad day the other day and sent out a tweet from my phone that said this:
This is a game I love to play: Computer commands/shortcuts for real life. It came up in a recent conversation on Facebook with Arno, a.k.a. @camera_obscura, one of my South African friends. He said, “My next few weeks will be much easier if I could uninstall the “sleep” function from my body. And also upload information to my brain.”
Amen to that.
I’ve played it before briefly on Twitter, but I’d like to see what we come up with in the comments. So far this is my list of computer commands/shortcuts I want for real life:
- An ESCAPE key for awkward situations.
- *CMD/CTRL+F for things like my car keys.
- CMD/CTRL+Z for “undoing what you just did as you get the sinking feeling that you have officially just been a dumbass” (that one was Arno’s)
- A service like shorten URL that you can plug long meetings into.
- A help file (per Arno’s friend Adrian)
- CMD/CTRL+S to save important things for later
- Copy & Paste to relay important conversations so you don’t get anything wrong.
- CMD+Q to just quickly quit stuff and get on to the next thing.
- CMD++ to make things bigger that are too small . . . like, uh, ice cream sundaes (be creative)
- CMD+- to make things smaller that are too big . . . choose your crisis & shrink it!
- CMD+H to instantly hide
- CMD+O to open doors and stuff
- CMD+R (or F5 for PC users) to refresh . . . could save money on your water bill
- CMD+SHIFT+DELETE to empty the trash . . . nobody likes to do that in real life!
Your turn!
What are some computer commands/shortcuts you’d like to apply in real life?
*Note: I’m a Mac person so I use the CMD key, which is similar to the CTRL key. Your shortcuts may slightly vary if you’re a PC person.
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CMD + D to instantly bookmark your page in your old-fashioned paper book!
FN + END on my Dell laptop mutes all sound. Cause sometimes you just don’t want to hear it anymore.
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@Ben The other day I was thumbing through a book I recently read looking for a specific passage and thought that very thing. Or, I could use my CMD+F to find the phrase I was looking for in the text!
@Nick OMG I need that for my cat!!
There are days when just about all of those apply… then there are others that I wish life had a built-in “photoshop” so I could instantly get rid of any annoying blemishes, smooth my skin, and get rid of the errant hairs that pop up from nowhere.
Like my hard drive, sometimes I need to defragment my brain and clear the cache. I believe the Mac folks used to call that zapping the PRAM.
That would come in handy for those times when I have “Ice, Ice Baby” stuck in my head. Or when I’m stuck in traffic and I see the guy next to me rooting around in his nose searching for gold.
@Cardiogirl I think I’m going to incorporate “I need to defrag my brain” into my usual lexicon. That’s awesome!