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I'll go first. I JUST realized that I could drag and drop highlighted text. Instead of copy-delete-paste.

You can save Captain Kirrahee in Mass Effect 1.

Tamren wrote:

I'll go first. I JUST realized that I could drag and drop highlighted text. Instead of copy-delete-paste.

Why copy-delete instead of cut?

I owned my car for three years, constantly bemoaning the lack of cruise control, only to be informed by a highly amused mechanic the button that activated the cruise control. Not my finest moment.

This morning, I discovered that the tool to move windows in Microsoft Windows doesn't actually use the mouse, you just activate it and use the arrow keys to move the window. I did this today by accident when trying to move a window for a user that was stuck off screen. No kidding, I've been using Windows almost daily for over 20 years and I only just now realised this is how the window move function works.

Oh my God. I always wondered what that window move function was for.
Damn that would've come in handy a bunch of times when I had a window "stuck" offscreen!

Nice.

I just learned this a couple years ago.

I've never understood why that's a better way to open a banana.

Chaz wrote:

I've never understood why that's a better way to open a banana.

You never get a smashed banana and it opens quickly 100% of the time. I've tried to open some in the past and the stem would not pull off, and I end up smashing part of the banana. Gorillas open it up from the bottom and they are the subject matter experts.

KrazyTacoFO wrote:
Chaz wrote:

I've never understood why that's a better way to open a banana.

You never get a smashed banana and it opens quickly 100% of the time. I've tried to open some in the past and the stem would not pull off, and I end up smashing part of the banana.

Yeah but then you don't get the cool handle when holding the stem-end.

Aaron D. wrote:
KrazyTacoFO wrote:
Chaz wrote:

I've never understood why that's a better way to open a banana.

You never get a smashed banana and it opens quickly 100% of the time. I've tried to open some in the past and the stem would not pull off, and I end up smashing part of the banana.

Yeah but then you don't get the cool handle when holding the stem-end.

IMAGE(http://foodbeast.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/banana-gun-shoot-monkeys-donkey-kong-included.jpg)

How... I mean, did you just have that image laying around...?

Gravey wrote:

How... I mean, did you just have that image laying around...?

Nah, I just called my friend and he forwarded it my way.

IMAGE(http://bananaphone.us/images/index.4.jpg)

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

This morning, I discovered that the tool to move windows in Microsoft Windows doesn't actually use the mouse, you just activate it and use the arrow keys to move the window. I did this today by accident when trying to move a window for a user that was stuck off screen. No kidding, I've been using Windows almost daily for over 20 years and I only just now realised this is how the window move function works.

You can start the move with the arrow, and continue with the mouse, but you have to click an arrow direction at least once, first.
Silly Windows.

So many banana phone images.

After I bought my new car I thought the rear defrost was broken and took it in to the car dealer.

I was then shown that on my car the rear defrost has a separate button that I have to press.

I am sure the mechanic's had a good chuckle.

Shift+Insert is the same as CTRL+V.

I never paid attention to US politics (specifically Congress) until just recently and have discovered quite quickly that it's nothing short of a massive clusterf*ck of ineffectiveness.

I just learned that you can add a .edu email address to Dropbox and get double referral space retroactively. That was rather awesome.

KrazyTacoFO wrote:
Chaz wrote:

I've never understood why that's a better way to open a banana.

You never get a smashed banana and it opens quickly 100% of the time. I've tried to open some in the past and the stem would not pull off, and I end up smashing part of the banana. Gorillas open it up from the bottom and they are the subject matter experts. ;)

Also, you don't get those little stringy things if you open it from the bottom.

groan wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

This morning, I discovered that the tool to move windows in Microsoft Windows doesn't actually use the mouse, you just activate it and use the arrow keys to move the window. I did this today by accident when trying to move a window for a user that was stuck off screen. No kidding, I've been using Windows almost daily for over 20 years and I only just now realised this is how the window move function works.

You can start the move with the arrow, and continue with the mouse, but you have to click an arrow direction at least once, first.
Silly Windows.

Also if you're trying to find a window that's completely off screen and you don't know in which direction, select it from the task bar and press the windows key + arrow keys (just not down). It's like magic!

NSMike wrote:

Shift+Insert is the same as CTRL+V.

Ctrl+Insert is the same as Ctrl+C. Shift+Delete is the same as Ctrl+X.

Open Windows Calculator and do CTRL+E.

NSMike wrote:

Open Windows Calculator and do CTRL+E.

Since when did they add all this stuff? You can even convert between BTUs and electron-volts! (although I can't imagine why)

Chairman_Mao wrote:
groan wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

This morning, I discovered that the tool to move windows in Microsoft Windows doesn't actually use the mouse, you just activate it and use the arrow keys to move the window. I did this today by accident when trying to move a window for a user that was stuck off screen. No kidding, I've been using Windows almost daily for over 20 years and I only just now realised this is how the window move function works.

You can start the move with the arrow, and continue with the mouse, but you have to click an arrow direction at least once, first.
Silly Windows.

Also if you're trying to find a window that's completely off screen and you don't know in which direction, select it from the task bar and press the windows key + arrow keys (just not down). It's like magic!

Kannon wrote:
NSMike wrote:

Shift+Insert is the same as CTRL+V.

Ctrl+Insert is the same as Ctrl+C. Shift+Delete is the same as Ctrl+X.

NSMike wrote:

Open Windows Calculator and do CTRL+E.

IMAGE(http://www.ppcgeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lib-head-explode-300x225.jpg)

So what does Ctrl-E supposed to do? It doesn't do anything for me.

Nosferatu wrote:

So what does Ctrl-E supposed to do? It doesn't do anything for me.

It does nothing in XP that I see, but it does in windows 7. Whoa.

Yes, it doesn't do anything in XP. It appears to be specific to the Windows 7 Calculator (Maybe Vista?).

CTRL+U is also fun.

NSMike wrote:

Yes, it doesn't do anything in XP. It appears to be specific to the Windows 7 Calculator (Maybe Vista?).

CTRL+U is also fun.

I like ALT+3

Re: Win7 calculator...

If you go under file menu, you'll see all the options you can add to it, like mortgage calculator, conversions, etc.

Awesome find on the windows calculator.

I never knew home electrical color coded the hot wires as black until I went to replace a switch in my house. I figured all electrical would have followed the red = hot, black = ground before that.

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