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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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There's a certain --

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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
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.

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Nobody ever sits down and tells you,
"This is how it works."

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So today I'm going to tell you ten things

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

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First of all, on the web,
if you want to scroll down,

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don't pick up the mouse
and use the scroll bar.

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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;
works in every browser,

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in 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.

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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 to that thing

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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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Works on every computer,
every web browser,

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or 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,

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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.

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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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No need to go to the recent calls list
if you're trying to call somebody

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just hit the call button again.

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Something that drives me crazy:

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When I call you and leave a message
on your voice mail,

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I hear you saying, "Leave a message,"

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and then I get these 15 seconds
of freaking 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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(Laughter)

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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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Phone: At the tone, please...

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(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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So most of you think of Google

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as something that lets you
look up a web page,

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but it is also a dictionary.

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Type the word "define"
and 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 until it lands.

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You don't need an app.

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It's also 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 --

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(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.

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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.

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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.

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Again, don't bother deleting.

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Just type over it.

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(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.

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(Camera click)

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(Laughter)

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So, that's because the camera needs time
to calculate the focus and exposure,

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

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leave your finger down --

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no shutter lag!

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You get it every time.

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I've just turned your $50 camera
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!

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(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,
make everybody look at you,

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and then when you're ready
to go on, you hit B again,

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and if you're really on a roll,
you can hit the W key for "whiteout,"

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and you white out the slide,

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and then you can hit W again
to un-blank it.

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So I know I went super fast.

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If you missed anything, 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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