Android Keyboard Shortcuts

Here's a list of shortcut keys I've found and/or compiled that works with my Bluetooth keyboard, if you've found one that is not on the list, let me know, i'll add them to the list! Thanks.

Note: The "Menu" key is the key that looks like 4 horizontal lines, next to the "Alt" key, or the HOME Key.

At the home screen:
Menu + W = change wallpaper
Menu + M = manage applications
Menu + N = show notifications
Menu + A = add item to homescreen
Menu + S = new search (or you can just start typing)
Menu + P = open settings
Home + B (or Search + B) = open browser
Home + C (or Search + C) = open contacts
Home + L = open calendar
Home + Esc = exit back to homescreen

In the browser:
Menu + N (or Ctrl + T) = new tab
Menu + I (or Ctrl + I) = zoom-in on page
Menu + O (or Ctrl + O) = zoom-out on page
Menu + J = open download manager
Menu + L = open search bar
Menu + R (or Ctrl + R) = refresh current page
Menu + F = find on page
Menu + B = open bookmarks
Menu + H = view browsing history
Menu + D = add bookmarks
Menu + S (or Ctrl + S) = open social network sharing menu
Menu + G = page info
Menu + E = select text
Menu + P = open browser settings
Menu + W (or Ctrl + W) = closes the current open tab
FN + Tab = toggle browser toolbar on/off when it's hidden
Ctrl + Shift = select input method (universal outside of browser also)

In Gmail:
C = compose new message
L = go to Label menu
X = check message in Inbox
V = add Label to current message
M = delete highlighted or checked messages
Alt + Up = go to top of Inbox
Alt + Down = go to bottom of Inbox.

General:
Shift + Backspace = Forward delete (like a full keyboard "Delete" key)
Ctrl + X = Cut
Ctrl + C = Copy
Ctrl + V = Paste
Hold ALT + TAB = Show recent apps window and cycle in forward order(may not work in certain apps due to tab focus on certain elements in app) - (Only for HoneyComb 3.2 And Above)
Hold ALT + Shift + TAB = Show recent apps window and cycle in reverse order(may not work in certain apps due to tab focus on certain elements in app) - (Only for HoneyComb 3.2 And Above)

Update: Added new ALT+TAB combination which was added due to recent Android 3.2 update.

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another attempt at trying to maintain a blog outside of the Social Networks Part 5692

"Write Something" is what displays on the screen of the blogger app running on my tablet.. I am not so insane to try blogging without a Bluetooth keyboard... as much as I like toushscreens I can not type on them long form.. .. where to begin? .. that's always the difficult part.. and also not to bore, or repeat... I have made multiple attempts to keep a physical journal.. still have it.. and sometimes the gaps between entries can be a month to a year ... it's not procrastination.. or lack of disipline.. it's just get's forgotten in the massive amount of information I ingest throughout my days... the human mind can only handle so much short term information before it has to lose something less important to make room for that infomation that is much more valuable .. it's in us all.. some can hold more information short term than others... I sit at a desk that isn't mine (my girlfriends, and I don't own a desk, I have my work desk, a laptop stand @ home, and coffee shop tables.. I need nothing more) .. tunes from my phone are routed through a small radio while I use it as a hotspot to connect my tablet ... and reading my sister's blog about how she was writting more without internet during her move.. I thought to myself "Why the fuck haven't you been writting anything James?.. you have no good excuses" .. so here I am... rambling in search of something tangable to hold onto in this messy free flowing thought spillage... maybe that's the point?.. it is to some, and pointless to many I am sure.. but this isn't for them.. it's always been for me to look back at and think about where I was at that point in my like, and also who I was.. because believe me I have looked back and have seen more change in the last few years within myself then I imagined was possible in .. well.. anyone... it's a lot to take in sometimes.. ..... not having the pieces I wrote on hand.. and missing large chunks of my Writting (black mold in the carper of an old appartment I was living in soaked the pages of 2 of my notebooks full of rants, ramblings, prose, and art.. I was crushed.. and in some ways still am.. that was part of me in those pages) but I have more recent notebooks.. however none of them ever seam to be completely filled.. I have more notebooks than I need.. you can never have to many mediums right?.. yeah... you can when you don't use them effectively... so writing... why do I want to do it?.. from an engineering standpoint (even though I never completed my "Formal" engineeering schooling I am one on a broad scale.. ask anyone I work with) .. I look at it as a way to debug my inner coding... and apply hacks to get better preformance out of myself... .. I am an engineer of hacks... not just technical.. but life hacks, mechanical hacks.. whatever I can do to push something, myself inculded, to get the results I need... one of my favotites (especially working in support engineering as I do) is Social Engineering... the art of hacking people... it sounds sinister.. and it can be... an has .. the weakest link in the chain of any secure system is the user... but Social Enginnering can be done for survival, self protection, or to assist others.. without being Malicious in the process... you have to know the boundries of each.. because you can easily find yourself in dark territory if you are not paying attention to details ... anyway... debugging my own code... what did I do, why did I do it.. how can I do better next time.. sounds simple I know.. but most people don't analyze their expeiances in order to make similar ones better in the future... granted I have had some of my "hacks" to make it better blow up in my face before.. but that was a valuable lesson on not using that hack for that identical situation (or person) again ... social engineering is as much about hacking people as it is about hacking yourself.. to adapt to anything and everything that comes your way.. mentally... and it requires profound resilience.. something i still work very hard to achieve... Emotions and expectations are resiliencies biggest enemies... (looking at what I have written I realize this has no real form to it but fuck it.. if you have made it this far maybe you'll come back for more?) .. anyway I think I have spilled all I have for the time being... lets see how long it takes me to make another entry... anyone wanna place bets?...

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I got in the mood to make a 12/21/12 playlist

This is such a great theme to create a playlist for. 


The Doors - The End
The Turtles - Eve Of Destruction
Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming
Nine Inch Nails - The Day The World Went Away
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World
Nena - 99 Luftballons
Europe - The Final Countdown
Elvis Costello - Waiting For The End Of The World
Sisters of Mercy - Black Planet
Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
The Cure - The End Of The World
Pink Floyd - GoodBye Blue Sky
The Police - When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What Is Still Around
Chris Cornell - Preaching The End Of The World
Koolaid Electric Company - Invasion of the Skies
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Testament - 3 Days Of Darkness
Oingo Boingo - It's a Dead Man's Party
Agents of Oblivion - Endsmouth
Tool - Ænema
Power Man 5000 - When Worlds Collide
Agalloch - ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth
Public Enemy – Countdown to Armageddon
Joy Division - Dead Souls
Meat Puppets - Lake Of Fire
Drowning Pool - Bodies
Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line
Talking Heads - (Nothing but) Flowers
The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Steely Dan - Black Friday
Black Sabbath - Falling Off The Edge Of The World
Faith No More - Surprise! You're Dead!
Danzig - End Of Time
Ayreon - Earth Extinction
Rush - In the End
Ministry - Grace

Some back story and maybe a hint of what the future holds for future postings

I am a slacker, in point of fact, everything I do or have done since I was a teen in the early 90's has been in order to achieve the ultimate in Slack. I focused on slack before even knowing there is a satirical religion dedicated to the achievement of Slack, I quickly read everything on them. I determined I am just to lazy to bother with their kind, to much dedication to something that is not as important to me as kicking back and finding more localized reasons to smile. My work ethic revolves around the idea that it is better to work smart then hard, and I look for the cheapest ways to live a comfortable life so that even in the most dire of financial situations I will always be able to slack without any repercussions.

Now I am sure this paints a picture that I am just lazy and do nothing as much as possible, and in some cases you would be correct. However I have found it is a very productive mindset to have as well, in being motivated to both be cheap, and find the Ultimate Slack, I have spent extensive amounts of time reading and learning DIY skills and random bits of knowledge that will give me a better understanding of our world. I fix everything I can myself in order to keep costs as low as possible, I buy used bicycles, computers, cameras, etc.

My goal to achieve this Ultimate Slack opened my mind many years ago to the world of shortcuts we now refer to as "Hacks", I love that word because it strips the laziness away from it and makes it acceptable to the rest of the worlds input of ideas, convincing others to do some of the thinking for me. if you really look at the thinking process that goes into any hacks out there today, it's entire purpose is to make something easier, and more efficient, bringing us back full circle. I'll find the motivation to add more latter to this thought process and maybe share some of the methods to my madness in the future, till then.

it's amazing what you forget when time grabs you by the balls

You'll forget about the blog you meant to start.. that's right.. I forgot about it ... it happens.

I have yet to find a purpose for this blog as of yet outside just random acts of me.. or my chaotic incoherent blabberings of nonsense...

Anyway... Work is busy, and happy, so is my personal life, and my health.. trying to get back on the reading & writing bandwagon, but when I have the time I find myself taking a nap instead ...

We're getting there

There will be more things to come... First I need to find my shoehorn

in the beginning

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