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I've noticed something interesting about society and culture.

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Everything risky requires a license,

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so learning to drive, owning a gun, getting married.

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(Laughter)

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That's true in everything risky except technology.

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For some reason, there's no standard syllabus,

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there's no basic course.

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They just sort of give you your computer

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and then kick you out of the nest.

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You're supposed to learn this stuff how?

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Just by osmosis. Nobody ever sits down

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and tells you, "This is how it works."

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So today I'm going to tell you 10 things

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that you thought everybody knew, but it turns out they don't.

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All right, first of all, on the web, when you're on the web

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and you want to scroll down, don't pick up the mouse

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and use the scroll bar. That's a terrible waste of time.

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Do that only if you're paid by the hour.

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Instead, hit the space bar.

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The space bar scrolls down one page.

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Hold down the Shift key to scroll back up again.

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So space bar to scroll down one page.

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It works in every browser on every kind of computer.

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Also on the web, when you're filling in one of these forms like your addresses,

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I assume you know that you can hit the Tab key

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to jump from box to box to box.

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But what about the pop-up menu where you put in your state?

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Don't open the pop-up menu. That's a terrible waste of calories.

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Type the first letter of your state over and over and over.

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So if you want Connecticut, go, C, C, C.

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If you want Texas, go T, T, and you jump right

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to that thing without even opening the pop-up menu.

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Also on the web, when the text is too small,

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what you do is hold down the Control key and hit plus, plus, plus.

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You make the text larger with each tap.

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It works on every computer, every web browser,

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or minus, minus, minus to get smaller again.

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If you're on the Mac, it might be Command instead.

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When you're typing on your Blackberry, Android, iPhone,

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don't bother switching layouts to the punctuation layout

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to hit the period and then a space and then try to capitalize the next letter.

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Just hit the space bar twice.

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The phone puts the period, the space, and the capital for you.

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Go space, space. It is totally amazing.

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Also when it comes to cell phones, on all phones,

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if you want to redial somebody that you've dialed before,

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all you have to do is hit the call button,

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and it puts the last phone number into the box for you,

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and at that point you can hit call again to actually dial it.

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So you don't need to go into the recent calls list,

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so if you're trying to get through to somebody,

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just hit the call button again.

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Here's something that drives me crazy.

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When I call you and leave a message on your voicemail,

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I hear you saying, "Leave a message,"

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and then I get these 15 seconds of frickin' instructions,

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like we haven't had answering machines for 45 years!

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(Laughter)

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I'm not bitter.

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So it turns out there's a keyboard shortcut

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that lets you jump directly to the beep like this.

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Answering machine: At the tone, please — BEEP.

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David Pogue: Unfortunately, the carriers didn't adopt

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the same keystroke, so it's different by carrier,

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so it devolves upon you to learn the keystroke

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for the person you're calling.

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I didn't say these were going to be perfect.

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Okay, so most of you think of Google as something

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that lets you look up a webpage, but it is also a dictionary.

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Type the word "define" and then the word you want to know.

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You don't even have to click anything.

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There's the definition as you type.

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It's also a complete FAA database.

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Type the name of the airline and the flight.

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It shows you where the flight is, the gate, the terminal,

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how long till it lands. You don't need an app for that.

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It's also a unit and currency conversion.

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Again, you don't have to click one of the results.

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Just type it into the box, and there's your answer.

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While we're talking about text,

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when you want to highlight --

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this is just an example. (Laughter)

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When you want to highlight a word,

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please don't waste your life dragging across it

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with the mouse like a newbie.

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Double click the word. Watch 200. I go double click.

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It neatly selects just that word.

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Also, don't delete what you've highlighted.

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You can just type over it. This is in every program.

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Also, you can go double click, drag

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to highlight in one-word increments as you drag.

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Much more precise. Again, don't bother deleting.

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Just type over it. (Laughter)

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Shutter lag is the time between your pressing the shutter button

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and the moment the camera actually snaps.

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It's extremely frustrating on any camera under 1,000 dollars.

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(Camera click)

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(Laughter)

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So that's because the camera needs time

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to calculate the focus and the exposure,

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but if you pre-focus with a half-press,

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leave your finger down, no shutter lag!

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You get it every time.

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I've just turned your $50 camera

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into a $1,000 camera with that trick.

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And finally, it often happens that you're giving a talk,

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and for some reason the audience is looking at the slide

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instead of at you! (Laughter)

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So when that happens, this works in Keynote, PowerPoint,

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it works in every program, all you do is hit the letter B key,

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B for blackout, to black out the slide

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and make everybody look at you, and then when you're ready to go on,

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you hit B again, and if you're really on a roll,

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you can hit the W key for whiteout,

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and you white out the slide, and then you can hit W again

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to unblank it.

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So I know I went super fast. If you missed anything,

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I'll be happy to send you the list of these tips.

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In the meantime, congratulations.

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You all get your California technology license.

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Have a great day.

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