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The Stupid Things You Do On Facebook (And How To Fix Them) You’ve been with us for parts one, two, and three of this year’s Coolest Cubicle Contest, and now the time has arrived—time for the final vote-off to determine which creative cubicle jockey will hit their commute tomorrow $500 richer (in Amazon bucks). We’ve got a tonne of entries to vote on, so hit the jump, peruse your options, and decide whose cubicle deserves the title of Lifehacker’s Coolest Cubicle of 2008.
On Monday we covered how to ping any server from the Firefox address bar with a quick search bookmark. If your fingers Ctrl+L faster than they launch a terminal window, there are four more quick searches that can turn your address bar into a network command line. After the jump, download a bookmarks file of quick searches for whois, traceroute, email (via Gmail), and domain lookups as well as ping.
Firefox and Opera both offer keyword bookmark searches by default, and Internet Explorer users can have them too—with a little tweaking. The Productivity Portfolio weblog runs down how to set up custom keyword searches in IE using the previously mentioned TweakUI utility for Windows XP. Here are our favourite 15 keyword bookmark searches.
The Mac Tipper blog sings the praises of Finder’s column view, and schools the rest of us on how to navigate files and folders in a flash using the keyboard. Hit the play button to see it in action. How to Quickly Navigate Column View [MacTipper Blog]
Techie Jeff Atwood says that while having lots of screen real estate to display more information is great, the downside to multiple or widescreen monitors is that they make you work a little harder to manage windows:
Tech tips site MakeUseOf.com runs down some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts available in Google Calendar, like:C to compose a new event Q to quick add a new event J and K to move backwards and forwards through time (like Gmail and Google Reader) D for Day view, W for weekly view, and M for monthly view.
You a hardcore GCal keyboard user? What are your favourite keystrokes? Tell us in the comments. The Essential Keyboard Shortcuts to Tame your Google Calendar [MakeUseOf.com]
