How do you compute?
 

Are you a mouse person? or a keyboard short cut person?

Me personally I live for keyboard shortcuts, my mouse hardly gets used. To open a program I like to just hit "windows key" "r" and type for example "itunes.exe" or "calc.exe". ALT+TAB is my best friend and yeah. How about you, what's your perfered way of using your computer.

Re: How do you compute?
 

To simplify running executables you can usually drom the ".exe" and simply run itunes or calc.

Re: How do you compute?
 

Im running a really messed up version of windows and it wont work with out the .exe . On other computers i drop it but this is my primary =] but thanks for the tip. (even though i knew it allready )

Re: How do you compute?
 

I pwnz0rz teh keyboard shortcuts--Spotlight is awesome for getting to stuff without using your mouse. (Did you know that while using command-tab on your Mac you can hit Q to quit the selected application, provided there's no unsaved documents? Found that out the other day.)

Then again, I also use hot corners quite a bit as well. Upper-left corner is desktop, upper-right is all windows, lower-right is application windows, and lower-left is screen saver. (Mine shows all the pictures of robots I've taken, which is more or less nothing but pictures of Ockham and the Capital Clash.)

Re: How do you compute?
 

For my laptop there is a feature I use which is really cool.

The mouse has a setting when if you hit ctrl it shows a radar circle that zones in on the mouse pointer. It is helpful to find where your mouse pointer is on the screen when you are driving down the road.
:ahh:

Re: How do you compute?
 

I have keyboard shortcuts set for the Windows Calulator, MS Paint, and Notepad. I have a hotkey for Internet Explorer. I use shortcuts for Dimensions, Circles, Lines, Constraints, and Extrude in Inventor. I use keyboard shortcuts any time I cut, copy, or paste text (not for files, I don't know why). I use tab to advance to the next form field on a web page. Everthing else is pretty much mouse clicking for me.

Re: How do you compute?
 

When I'm on a desktop I'm a keyboard guy. When I'm on a laptop with a USB mouse, i'm mouse man. Center clicking is the greatest thing since Alt+Tab and the Vertical Scroll Wheel, especially when you have a mouse like this where you use the little red button and you can middle click with your thumb! But keyboard stuff if you have a comfy keyboard is 30 times faster.

If there ever was a useless feature I got on a mouse, it's definetly the side scroll, my mouse has it and I don't use it. Ever.

Re: How do you compute?
 

Im actually easily amuzed by those little circles. I make them Dance =]

...i shoulda made this a poll

Re: How do you compute?
 

i know and use most of the keyboard shortcuts availible...i try to make my own shortcuts all the time so my programs will open as soon as i perform the shortcut

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when animating with 3ds max I'm keyboard man. but anything else I'm mighty mouse.

Re: How do you compute?
 

I'm a fan of both. My main computer is a laptop with a touchpad, so I find it's more convenient to use keyboard shortcuts on some things and the touchpad on others. Copy/cut/paste is always keyboard, so is switching between tabs.