Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Orkut keyboard shortcuts

We can make use of browser capabilities to use key combinations as shortcut keys.Orkut keyboard shortcuts is a great way to improve your social networking experience and it eases many other tasks.

These shortcuts work on Firefox(didn't take the pain of testing on IE
rolleyes) .Use the following keyboard shortcuts to access frequent features:

Scrapbook shortcut button : Alt + Shift + s
Home shortcut button : Alt + Shift + h
Communities shortcut button : Alt + Shift + c
Friends shortcut button : Alt + Shift + b
Profile shortcut button : Alt + Shift + p
Logout shortcut button : Alt + Shift + l

To scroll down, you can use the shortcut – Space bar, which typically scrolls down a page half of what page-down buttons scroll.

To go back one page, you can use Alt + Left arrow key and similarly to forward one page, you can use Alt + right arrow key. This key combination for moving forward and backwards, works on all browsers and on all sites.