THE ULTIMATE TECH HACKATHON: 30+ TOOLS & SHORTCUTS TO USE TECHNOLOGY MORE EFFECTIVELY

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Glide TODAY’S HACK-A-LICIOUS OFFERINGS •Shortcuts galore •Office tips & tricks •Your digital security •Way cool websites & apps •And maybe a surprise or two? These Really Are Hacks! NOUN: HACK; PLURAL NOUN: HACKS

1. - A ROUGH CUT, BLOW, OR STROKE. "HE WAS SURE ONE OF US WAS GOING TO TAKE A HACK AT HIM" (IN SPORTS) A KICK OR HIT INFLICTED ON ANOTHER PLAYER. - A TOOL FOR ROUGH STRIKING OR CUTTING, E.G. A MATTOCK OR A MINER'S PICK. ARCHAIC - A CUT OR GASH.

2. INFORMAL AN ACT OF COMPUTER HACKING. A PIECE OF COMPUTER CODE PROVIDING A QUICK OR INELEGANT SOLUTION TO A PARTICULAR PROBLEM. "THIS HACK DOESN'T WORK ON MACHINES THAT HAVE A FIREWALL“ ”A STRATEGY OR TECHNIQUE FOR MANAGING ONE'S TIME OR ACTIVITIES MORE EFFICIENTLY”. THE THREE BEST HACKS YOU MAY HAVE NEVER KNOWN ABOUT

Ctrl Shift T Command – Shift – T on a Mac THE 26 BEST KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

Courtesy of www.blog.Kensington.com WAIT…THIS ONE SHOULD BE ON THE LIST

Ctrl Shift V

If you need to paste without formatting… COMPRESSION SAVES SPACE!

Great for PowerPoint & Word documents! SPIKE IT IN WORD!

Ctrl F3

Ctrl Shift F3 WINDOWS POWER HACKS •Alt + Tab

•Ctrl + Esc

•Ctrl + Shift + Esc

•Virtual Desktop: Win + Ctrl + D (Win + Tab to show all) CAN YOU EVER FIND A FILE USING WINDOWS SEARCH?

Agent Ransack CLIPCLIP THIS!

Do you use a clipboard manager? MY DAILY DOUBLE…

Flipboard Pocket YOUTUBE HACKS

Keyboard What It Does Add gen at start of URL Downloads video Add gif at start of URL Allows you to create a Gif from YouTube video Spacebar or K Pause/play video Left/right arrow keys (J & Jumps increments of 5 seconds (holding down Ctrl key L keys, too) creates 10 second jumps) 1-9 Advances by that percentage (eg. pressing 2 advances 20% into the video) F Shows in full screen (hit F again to go back) Up/down arrow keys Increase/decrease volume by 5% VIDEO FORMAT CHANGING EVEN BETTER THAN HANDBRAKE?

www.online-convert.com COMPRESSION RULES (AGAIN)!

www.TinyPNG.com IMAGE CONTROL

www.picmonkey.com REMEMBER KIDS, ONLY USE PICTURES YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO USE! SO WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT OPEN SOURCE

Way Cool Listing – From MakeTechEasier.com PROTECT YOURSELF - VPN

Tunnel Bear MORE PROTECTION – PASSWORD MANAGER

Dashlane GOING STEALTH NOT-SO STUPID BROWSER TRICKS Shortcut What it Does Ctrl + P Save a webpage as a PDF file Alt + Home Immediately returns tab to your defined home page F3 Perform a text search on the current page Ctrl +, Ctrl – Ctrl + increases text size Ctrl 0 Ctrl - decreases text size Ctrl 0 returns text size to 100% SEARCHING MAGICALLY

Hint: It’s your friend, the right mouse click HOW MANY EXTENSIONS DO YOU HAVE?

But not just for Chrome...Firefox has great Add-Ons as well! NUMBERS ARE GOOGLE’S FRIEND

•Do math

•Conversions

•Tip calculator. LIVE CAPTIONING

Live Transcribe (free) WE NEED A VOLUNTEER (IT’S NOT A TECH HACK, IT’S A LIFE HACK!) WANT TO CREATE SOME COOL ANIMATION?

Doodly THE GREAT SPACE BAR TRICK PHONE (OR COMPUTER) BATTERY DYING?

Charge it in Airplane mode for (slightly) quicker results! MEET THE LENS’S

Office Lens TRAVEL TIME

Hopper YOUR MOST IMPORTANT HACK!

ICE Standard (or any similar app) THE WAY COOL EXCEL TRICK

Excel’s killer shortcut – F11 NO, THIS COULD BE THE WAY COOLEST EXCEL TRICK

Currently, only available for Android phones DON’T YOU WISH YOU HAD THIS WHILE STILL IN SCHOOL?

Photo Math HAS THIS SESSION BEEN TOO LONG? THANK YOU! James Spellos, CMP President, Meeting U. [email protected] www.meeting-u.com Join my tech community at www.patreon.com/jspellos