What is one cool internet trick you've learned? - General

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incognito mode

Mediahint

Magic Actions for Youtube. Allows you to put videos on repeat and you can automatically disable ads, disable annotations and also have it automatically turn to a quality of your choice.

[QUOTE=Zakkin;41124359]Magic Actions for Youtube. Allows you to put videos on repeat and you can automatically disable ads, disable annotations and also have it automatically turn to a quality of your choice.[/QUOTE] You can also turn off the lights like you can do on "Earth day" Much more user-friendly than YouTube's white layout.

Searching with a minus/excluding search words Like if you search for "bear" but get lots of hunting sites you can type "bear -hunting" and it will exclude everything that has anything to do with hunting, giving you all other sites related to bears

In google using "site:" So for example site:facepunch.com darth veger and you get all searches including that term but only shows results from facepunch.

Google reverse image search Has made discovering more porn as well as higher resolution images of things much, much easier.

Windows key-d or Windows key-m to go to desktop. Sooo useful for hiding porn windows in a hurry.

[QUOTE=voddler;41124320]Mediahint[/QUOTE] this shit doesnt work for me. Tried it on several browsers, pandora won't fucking work.

porn

links, you can click them.

In windows 7 (windows 8 too?) grabbing a window and giving it a little shake will minimize everything but that window. Nice for playing games in Windowed mode or getting open folders off the screen in Sony Vegas.

Going directly to the desktop by clicking that tiny little space at the bottom right of a Windows toolbar instead of minimizing programs/going Alt-Tab.

Middle click links to quickly open them in a new tab

Ctrl+w to close whatever tab you have open Windows key +D to go straight to desktop Ctrl+shift+esc to load up task manager

Dragging and dropping images into google image search to source images really quickly.

Ctrl+Click to open links in new tabs (when you aren't using a mouse) Alt+Tab to select running programs and apps Shift+Del to permanently delete files [editline]21st June 2013[/editline] Also Op started this thread because ha was embarrassed to ask directly for computer tricks, thereby shoving his complete lack of computerskills

Inspect element to falsify images.

Ctrl + Shift + Escape One-handed way to open Task Manager.

Ctrl + Shift + T on Firefox to re-open the last closed tab Really handy for when you accidentally close something

[QUOTE=AllegiantFS;41127546]Ctrl + Shift + Escape One-handed way to open Task Manager.[/QUOTE] I just pin Task Manager to the task bar, so I can just click an icon to open it. Only works on windows 7 though, I think. Maybe 8.

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Shift + click on restart for Windows 8 computers to access the BIOS. As you know what a dick new computers are because they don't have a actual POST.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;41124711]Google reverse image search Has made discovering more porn as well as higher resolution images of things much, much easier.[/QUOTE] Tineye does this too, but is more precise.

[QUOTE=laurencedgreat;41125181]Windows key-d or Windows key-m to go to desktop. Sooo useful for hiding porn windows in a hurry.[/QUOTE] "Son why are you staring at your desktop" Eventually they'll just figure out that it seems kinda fishy that whenever they come in you're staring at your desktop.

Alt tab and crtl tab for easier navigating.

Windows key + tab. Just try it.

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[QUOTE=BL00DB4TH;41126244]Middle click links to quickly open them in a new tab[/QUOTE] That's how i browse facepunch. Just going through the list and opening all the interesting threads and then browsing them one by one.