How do you compute?

[Michelle Celio]

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.

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles

To open a program I like to just hit "windows key" "r" and type for example "itunes.exe" or "calc.exe".

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

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil

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

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 )

[Billfred]

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.)

[Elgin Clock]

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.

[sanddrag]

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.

[Conor Ryan]

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.

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

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.

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

...i shoulda made this a poll

[Leo 1529]

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

[BuddyB309]

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

[Mike]

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.