Things you should know by now, but only just discovered

If it takes you 2 days of troubleshooting to get into an xbox party chat, maybe it's time to give up the wifi and buy cable instead.

$16 and 75 feet of cat5e later, problem solved. Thanks monoprice.com

Speedhuntr wrote:

Thanks monoprice.com

Other things to note about monoprice.com, they have good and inexpensive wall mounts for TVs and monitors. I saved $$ using them over any other place I looked.

ChrisGwinn wrote:

Also - I keep finding out that people don't know that middle-clicking a link will open it in a new tab (for most browsers).

Awesome!!!!!

TempestBlayze wrote:
ChrisGwinn wrote:

Also - I keep finding out that people don't know that middle-clicking a link will open it in a new tab (for most browsers).

Awesome!!!!!

This still astounds me. Tabbed browsing + that one little function was what originally drove me to switch away from IE to Firefox, waaaaaay back when that was still a new thing to do.

Thin_J wrote:

.. drove me to switch away from IE to Firefox, waaaaaay back when that was still a new thing to do.

Same. (Edit: I also started throwing away spare mice that didn't have a middle button. Why would anyone cripple themselves like that?)

TempestBlayze wrote:
ChrisGwinn wrote:

Also - I keep finding out that people don't know that middle-clicking a link will open it in a new tab (for most browsers).

Awesome!!!!!

middle-click trick #2: Middle-clicking a tab will close it.
middle-click trick #3: Middle-clicking a Windows 7 taskbar icon will launch a new instance of the application instead of switching to the open one.

ChrisGwinn wrote:
TempestBlayze wrote:
ChrisGwinn wrote:

Also - I keep finding out that people don't know that middle-clicking a link will open it in a new tab (for most browsers).

Awesome!!!!!

middle-click trick #2: Middle-clicking a tab will close it.
middle-click trick #3: Middle-clicking a Windows 7 taskbar icon will launch a new instance of the application instead of switching to the open one.

Middle Click magic!!!

My mouse at work doesn't have a middle mouse button, so I'm keenly aware of all the things I can't do.

It... Doesn't have a scroll wheel? Is it 15 years old?

I have a laptop mouse that has a wheel but not a middle-click. Pushing the wheel toggles from smooth scroll to click scroll and back. It has left/right scroll by leaning the wheel though. I remapped them both to middle-click.

Then I replaced it with something sane.

NSMike wrote:

It... Doesn't have a scroll wheel? Is it 15 years old?

No buttons at all. It's one of these.

The window management gestures make up for the lack of middle-click.

ChrisGwinn wrote:

My mouse at work doesn't have a middle mouse button, so I'm keenly aware of all the things I can't do.

Many of these things can be done with Key + Click.

New tab = Ctrl+Clock.
Windows 7 taskbar new instance = Shift + Click.

New tab = Ctrl+Clock.

I don't think you can control Clocky.

SixteenBlue wrote:
ChrisGwinn wrote:

My mouse at work doesn't have a middle mouse button, so I'm keenly aware of all the things I can't do.

Many of these things can be done with Key + Click.

New tab = Ctrl+Clock.
Windows 7 taskbar new instance = Shift + Click.

Yup. And it annoys me that I have to use a mouse click + key when I used to be able to use a mouse click.

It just occurred to me that the title of the song Californication is probably a play on the word fornication

Radical Ans wrote:

It just occurred to me that the title of the song Californication is probably a play on the word fornication

*spit take*

I remember when I was maybe 22 looking at the Chevron gas station sign and realizing that the logo is a chevron. I felt so stupid if it makes you feel any better.

Radical Ans wrote:

It just occurred to me that the title of the song Californication is probably a play on the word fornication

"probably"?

Next you'll be suggesting that some of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers other songs are also about fornication!

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Did anybody else see this instead of an eagle? Or was that just me? I was 12 before I figured it out.

Xbox downloads go about 5x faster when you're in the dashboard instead of in-game.

Speedhuntr wrote:

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The first thing I thought of when I saw this was that movie How to Train Your Dragon.

I don't get the USPS one.

duckilama wrote:

I don't get the USPS one.

I presume they're suggesting there's a very angular face in the logo (which they've drawn onto the eagle). I don't think the face was ntended, unlike Amazon's A-to-Z smile.

HedgeWizard wrote:
duckilama wrote:

I don't get the USPS one.

I presume they're suggesting there's a very angular face in the logo (which they've drawn onto the eagle). I don't think the face was ntended, unlike Amazon's A-to-Z smile.

Correct! I'm not saying it's intended at all. It's the opposite. I'm saying I should have realized it was an eagle sooner than I did. ALL I saw was the face.

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That's a grocery store we have here. I never noticed the P for Provigo in the logo until my mid-twenties

I think I saw a chick. Now I see a ribbon too

DAMN.

interstate78 wrote:

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That's a grocery store we have here. I never noticed the P for Provigo in the logo until my mid-twenties

I think I saw a chick. Now I see a ribbon too

DAMN.

I see a chicken with an endotracheal tube that has gone horribly wrong.

I assume I don't need to explain the FedEx logo to anyone?

Gremlin wrote:

I assume I don't need to explain the FedEx logo to anyone?

I was thinking the same thing.

Gremlin wrote:

I assume I don't need to explain the FedEx logo to anyone?

Guy Fawks watching Willie Mays catch a fast ball while an armored assault vehicle rolls past?

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Do people know of the Toblerone bear in the logo?