Michael Medin

Random thoughts on development, SOA and monitoring…

Efficient Work: Context switching via the Keyboard

One of the most common perceptions of windows is that it is a PUI (PARC User interface) oriented operation system. In other words the mouse is required to do everything. This is in many places true but fortunately Microsoft has recently changed this and incorporated the keyboard more and more into what was previously a mouse only domain. With Vista and Windows 7 a whole range of new keyboard shortcuts emerged and slapping on some third-party tools on top of that and we get a full-fledged keyboard experience.

This is a short introduction to how I use Modern Windows features and various third-party tools to optimize my workflow using the Keyboards in Windows..

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