From The Tips Box: iPad Keyboards, Tabs, CyanogenMod Nightlies

Readers offer their best tips for using keyboards with the iPad, cycling through tabs in Firefox on Windows, and keeping up with changes in the CyanogenMod nightly builds.

About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons — maybe they’re a bit too niche, maybe we couldn’t find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn’t fit it in — the tip didn’t make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favourites for your buffet-style consumption. Email it to tips at lifehacker.com.au.

Connect USB Peripherals to the iPad with the Camera Connection Kit

Photo by Håkan Dahlström.

Brett lets us know of other things that work with the iPad Camera Connection Kit:

I saw your post on adding storage with the Camera Connection Kit, so I set out to see what else I could do with one. It turns out the USB connector that comes with the kit works with my Apple USB keyboard! This is great if you don’t feel like going out and buying a bluetooth one. I also got a pair of USB headphones working with it nicely (sadly, my external drive didn’t work—looks like SD cards only for external storage). I wonder what other uses this could have.

Cycle Through Firefox Tabs with One Keypress

PrairieMoon shares an AutoHotkey script to quickly switch Firefox tabs:

Once, someone posted a “lazy alt” or “lazy tab” ahk script for Firefox. I changed it a bit, so that it now works in both FF3.6 and 4, even if they’re both running at the same time. Don’t use this if your alt key is already spoken for (e.g. toggling the menu bar).

Tap alt once to advance to the next tab. Double tap to move the other way.

It also remaps ctrl+k to reopen a closed tab. So there goes the default search key combo. Anything of course can be changed if you’re up for editing.

#IfWinActive ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass ; Lazy Tab (Firefox 3.6.x)
^k::^+t ; turns search into undo close tab
Alt::
if winc_presses 0
{
winc_presses += 1
return
}
winc_presses = 1
SetTimer, KeyWinC, 300
return
KeyWinC:
SetTimer, KeyWinC, off
if winc_presses = 1
{
Send ^{TAB}
}
else if winc_presses = 2
{
Send ^+{TAB}
}
else if winc_presses 2
{
}
winc_presses = 0
return

#IfWinActive ahk_class MozillaWindowClass ; Lazy Tab (Firefox 4.0*)
^k::^+t ; turns search into undo close tab
Alt::
if wind_presses 0
{
wind_presses += 1
return
}
wind_presses = 1
SetTimer, KeyWinD, 300
return
KeyWinD:
SetTimer, KeyWinD, off
if wind_presses = 1
{
Send ^{TAB}
}
else if wind_presses = 2
{
Send ^+{TAB}
}
else if wind_presses 2
{
}
wind_presses = 0
return

Keep Track of CyanogenMod Nightly Builds

Jahmon shares a neat website for CyanogenMod fans:

For those who are Cyanogen mod fans and who like to upgrade to the latest Nightly version, here is a great web site that searches the GITHUB commits and creates a webpage for each device with a summary of all changes applied to a certain nightly version.

Use the New Chrome Icon Before it Reaches the Stable Channel

Cinnamonster shares the new Chrome icon for everyone to use:

If you like the new chrome icon and can’t wait for it to trickle down from the dev version, here is a link. It’s a PNG so you can use it to convert to any format you may need.