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Keyboard shortcuts for VLC media player to make life much better

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Keyboard shortcuts make our lives much productive and pretty simple as well. The task becomes easier and can be performed faster with the help of shortcut keys. And the VLC media player is among the various apps that pack some very cool and interesting shortcuts. The application is definitely the go-to destination when it comes to watching videos for many people and if you are also one among them then the following VLC shortcuts are definitely going to help you to make your task simple and easy.

  • Enter into full-screen mode and watch your favourite videos in the VLC player by just simply using the shortcut key F11.
  • Very few people know this shortcut key but it is the most useful and also the most wanted shortcut key as well as it helps to pause the video if something else needs your attention while you watch videos on VLC media player. Just click on the spacebar and video will be paused and after you are done and ready to watch the video again then press the space bar again.
  • Wanna skip the video that you are watching or would like to backward the video and watch the things that you just missed here are the simple shortcuts that will help you

Shift+Left/Right (Long)

Ctrl+Left/Right (short)

Alt+Left/Right (Medium)

  • Control the volume of the video that you are watching by simply using the very cool VLC shortcuts Ctrl + Up/Down arrow.
  • This shortcut is just so much required and very useful as well, mute the video by using the very handy VLC shortcut, mute the video by simply using the “M” key on your keyboard.
  • Use the Ctrl + O shortcut for quickly accessing the media from your library.
  • Use the key “A” for changing the aspect ratio of the video that you are currently watching.
  • The controls in the VLC media player can be hidden by simply using the Ctrl + H shortcut key.
  • The shortcut keys “N” and “P” simple helps you to switch between the tracks in your playlist.
  • Take a screenshot of your video screen by using the shortcut key Shift + S.

These simple and pretty useful keyboard shortcuts thus help the user to do various simple tasks quickly without having to touch the mouse.

Some Of The Awesome YouTube Tricks That You Must Note

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YouTube, as you all may have know is the most popular video blogging website and has a lot of interesting video content to watch and share and many of us view a lot of videos daily on YouTube. But some simple and useful YouTube tricks, your YouTube experience is going to be superb. Let us first go through some of the keyboard shortcuts that you must note.

While you are watching YouTube videos, here are simple keyboard shortcuts which may save you from boggling with the mouse and allow you to relax leaning back on your coach and watch videos.

YouTube Tricks You Should Note

  • Pressing spacebar will pause the YouTube video, this you may know. But it works only after a click on the window, in such cases ‘K’ key will pause the video without having to touch the mouse.
  • J and L keys help you to rewind and forward the video for 10 seconds respectively.
  • Arrow keys also perform the rewind and forward action but for 5 seconds, that is if you want to rewind very small part, use these keys. Left arrow to rewind and right arrow to forward.
  • Press “F” key to go into full-screen mode.
  • Using the number keys 2,3,4…. You will be taken to 20%, 30%, 40% ….. of the video respectively.
  • Pressing “0” will take you to begin of the video.
  • Pressing Up and Down arrow will increase and decrease the audio by 5%.
  • “M” key will mute/unmute the video.
  • Turning any YouTube video into GIF is actually by simply adding the word ‘gif’ right before the domain name of the video URL. For example, if the video URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcVoR8TbfY, then your GIF URL will be https://www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=lfcVoR8TbfY

So, I hope these simple YouTube tricks will be useful to you at times and you use YouTube like a pro by implementing these tricks.

How To Create Shortcut Text Phrases In Your Android

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Typing is the most used processes these days as the communication these days is happening over the internet through messages. We all may not be fast at typing but definitely would wish to be fast. And to be fast at typing, first of all, you need to get used to the keyboard, there are a lot of tricks and tips that can help you to gain typing speed and be a pro at it. Today, in this article I am going to show you another simple trick which will help you type really quickly. We may feel bored of typing long text phrases and typing the same thing a lot of times, what if they have some keyboard shortcuts which will help us and save our time. Right!

Creating Text Phrases With Gboard

The Gboard from android has this inbuilt feature which we can make use of to be fast at typing on our Android devices.

  • First, open your settings, then scroll down to language and input, click on it
  • Then go to Gboard
  • Now open the Dictionary option
  • Then go to Personal dictionary, then click on all languages
  • Hereby selecting the plus icon you can just add shortcuts to various text phrases that you regularly and most frequently used by the full phrase in the first box and then entering the shortcut to that word in the box below

That is it, you are thus done with the setting up of the keyboard shortcuts for long phrases, now as soon as you enter the shortcut words to the long text phrases, the keyboard will show up the phrase in the suggestion which you can just select to get it typed and make your work really fast and quick.

Do try these simple steps and create your own text phrases for the words or sentences that you use the most and make life easy.

Best ways to learn the keyboard shortcuts

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Everyone actually knows the fact that keyboard shortcuts make the workflow easy and will help you to get things done faster. Why many people hate using shortcuts is just because its not that easy to get to know the various keyboard shortcuts that we need for various tasks, while we help you by introducing you the best and easy ways to learn keyboard shortcuts.

KeyRocket:

This software works with Microsoft Office, Windows Explorer and Visual Studio. It is very easy to use, no configuration and setup needed, just install the software and you are ready to use. The software prompts you with the shortcuts for the functions that you use in any of the supported softwares. So that the next time you will use the shortcuts if you want to do the same function again.

You can also download the free rocket extension to Google chrome to get suggestions while you work.

ShortcutFoo:

It offers you interactive sessions which help you to learn shortcuts and master them by using the most famous technique spaced repetition. You don’t have to install anything, just create a shortcutfoo account and start right from the web.

ShortcutMapper:

If you are a visual learner which is actually the best and easiest way to learn things and remember anything then you will like this for sure. It shows shortcuts for some popular apps like Adobe Illustrator, AutoDesk, SketchUp, and Sublime Text.

KeyXL:

It is a huge database of keyboard shortcuts from Google apps to adobe apps and many more that you can actually find shortcut databases for old versions of softwares including the newer versions shortcuts as well.

ShortcutKeys and ShortcutWorld are also some other online databases for keyboard shortcuts that you can try and teach your fingers the fastest ways to do the tasks.

So don’t be late anymore in learning the various keyboard shortcuts that you need for doing various tasks