1. A shortcut to any website.
Whatever you type into the URL bar can be
surrounded by www. & .com by pressing control +
enter.
2. An easy way to browse photos on a
subreddit hands-free.
When viewing picture based subreddits, add a “p”
into the url like so: redditp.com/r/subreddit to get
a picture slideshow of the posts on that subreddit.
This is particularly useful when you want to
browse a picture based subreddit ahemhands-free.
3. A shortcut to downloading music.
Type -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last
modified” +”parent directory” +description +size
+(wma|mp3) “weezer” into a google search bar.
And for other searches, replace “weezer” with
whatever you’re looking for. It finds music
downloads on public ftp and http sites.
4. How to do a reverse image search.
Hold S and right click an image to do reverse
image search in Chrome.
5. How to skip the boring intros of
most Youtube videos.
The Wadsworth constant, which was proposed
by /u/wadsworth, states that the first 30% of any
YouTube instructional video is skippable. YouTube
added it as a feature. Tutorial video? Add ?
wadsworth=1 to the end of the URL and skip the
awkward introduction by the host about their
hobbies, genetic history, what they had for
breakfast, and the explanation you could have
gathered from the video’s title.
6. How to restore a closed browser.
ctrl + shift + T
Opens up the last tab you closed.
7. How to make your cursor move by
words.
Most of the good ones are gone, but, holding
control makes your cursor move by full words,
instead of by characters.
So CTRL + backspace will delete the entire
previous word. CTRL + arrow keys will jump to
the start of the previous word.
8. A shortcut to highlighting a URL.
CTRL + L highlights the url/address bar in
Chrome.
9. How to access private Youtube
videos and subscription-only sites.
If a YouTube video is marked as private I’m pretty
sure you can gain access simply by deleting the
“watch?” In the URL.
I didn’t include this before because I never
personally tried it, but I’ve heard that if you
remove the “?” In a New York Times online URL
you can avoid having to buy a subscription or
whatever they want you to pay for.
10. The new “cntrl+Alt+delete.”
Don’t hit control+alt+delete, hit
control+shift+escape to go directly to the task
manager.
11. How to stop a distracting GIF.
One weird trick is pressing ESC to halt animated
GIFs that are distracting. Animators hate me.
12. How to switch between open
windows.
So many don’t know about alt-tab, which lets you
switch between open applications quickly. It
changed my life.
13. A shortcut to reenabling browser
right-click.
Putting the following into a favorite/shortcut on
the toolbar re-enables browser right click. Good
for sites that disable it to stop you stealing
pictures, or if their own right click context menu is
buggy.
javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)
14. How to open up an incognito
window (and what it’s good for).
I’m positive everyone knows this, but ctrl + shift +
n opens up an incognito mode tab on chrome. You
can browse freely being sure that nothing of what
you do is saved in browsing or downloads history.
No cookies either.
15. A simple way to clear your cache.
CTRL + SHIFT + R = Clear cache and then
refresh page.
16. How to access a blocked
subreddit.
If certain subreddits are blocked at your school or
work you can type the subreddit name with a + at
the end of it.
ex. /r/AskReddit+
17. Apparently, plug-ins are what’s up.
Plug-ins make your internet experience 100x
better:
YouTube Center: allows you to customize YouTube
to your liking, auto HD, remove annotations, and
other annoying things that normal people have to
adjust every time they watch a video.
Imagus: allows you to view images by just
hovering over the link. Works great for reddit.
AdBlock: Everyone should know about this
already. Blocks ads. Allows you to whitelist sites
that have tasteful, non-intrusive ads (like reddit).
18. An alternative way to pause a
Youtube video.
Tired of hitting spacebar to pause a YouTube video
and having it scroll down a page instead? Hit “k”
instead.
19. How to access paywall sites.
For websites like washingtonpost.com that allow
you a certain number of free stories per month
before you hit a paywall, just delete the cookies
from the site and it will reset your count.
Alternatively, you can browse it in incognito mode
(yes it’s useful for more than porn).
20. A fast and easy way to track your
UPS package.
If you Google a UPS tracking number, it will link
you right to the tracking page for your package.
21. How to excise words from a
Google search.
When searching things in Google, you can type a
minus sign and then the word you don’t want (-
stuff) to remove that word from the search.
22. How to make Google do a barrel
roll.
Googling “do a barrel roll” results in a barrel roll
on Google.
23. How to access video websites that
are restricted in your country.
Youtube video or website not available in your
country? Tryhttps://hola.org/ lets you proxy from a
different country really easily.
24. A hidden game in Google images.
A lot of people probably already know this, but…
Go to Google. Type in Atari Breakout. Go to
Images.
Enjoy.
25. How to make Google look off-
balance.
Try searching “tilt” in the address bar in chrome…
Google engineers must have fun. :)
26. A website that usually has
discounts on everything.
Always check retailmenot.com for coupons before
buying anything online.
27. How to find an updated version of
a now-dead website page.
Run into an old, dead link? Copy the url
to archive.org… they often have a preserved
copy.
