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I found that I use Safari much more on my Mac since Safari 4 was released.

By default, to jump to the Google Search field in Safari, one must press Option-Command-F. This isn’t the easiest one-handed key combo in my opinion. The key combo to jump to Google Search field in Firefox is Command-K, a much easier key combo.

How does one pull off Command-K in Safari:
1) Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Keyboard & Mouse.
2) Click Keyboard Shortcuts, and then click the Add (+) button.
3) Choose an application from the Application pop-up menu. In this case, you’ll choose Safari.
4) Type the menu command for which you want to set a keyboard shortcut in the Menu Title field.

You must type the command exactly as it appears in the application menu, including ellipses and any other punctuation. An ellipsis is a special character that looks like three periods. To type an ellipsis, press Option-semicolon.

So, you would type Google Search Option-semicolon (leave the space out between “Search” and pressing Option-semicolon) yielding “Google Search…”
5) Click in the Keyboard Shortcut field and press the key combination that you want to assign to the menu command, and then click Add.

Here you will press Command-K and click Add.

This makes using Safari on Mac OS much easier especially since Apple added Control-Tab/Shift-Control-Tab when Safari 4 hit Macs and PCs.

Some info taken from Creating keyboard shortcuts for applications for reference.

I hope my soldering skills are up to snuff. I’ve done some soldering while adding lights to my motorcycle and doing some car radio installations in my personal vehicles, but I’ve never soldered on a printer circuit board before. It should be an interesting little project.

Every guitarist at some point has at least tried Boss’s DS-1 distortion pedal. Most People are immediately disappointed. This over hyped pedal sounds really thin with no punch. Sales people at guitar center will say something like its a “great beginner distortion pedal”. Its been my experience that most of the people that work at guitar center are useless. So, always research and get information from multiple sources.

Continue reading ‘I think I’ll give this distortion pedal mod a whirl′

From the book of the same name here are some Google hacks.

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Here is a short howto on setting up ad blocking in Mozilla Firefox 0.9.
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Some folks use telnet to administer their PIX firewalls. Telnet is bad bad bad.

Here is a short tutorial on setting up SSH on your PIX firewall.
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