BrianB
Posted: Sep. 11 2006, 14:20 ET

One of the features on this board was driving me crazy so I finally changed it.  I'm using Internet Explorer on Windows.  Since I'm more of a keyboard guy than a mouse guy, when I want to print someone's post (like a recipe or whatever), I type ALT+F, and then P and press ENTER.  Well, ALT-F activates the shortcut to embed FLASH into a post, and so it always tripped me up and made me revert to my mouse.  NO MORE!!!  I finally went into the code and found the offending line and changed it so now ALT+A is the shortcut to embed Flash (I never use those crazy shortcuts anyway).

Soooo, if that was driving you crazy too, now it's fixed for both of us.  If the new ALT+A assignment causes anyone any problems post here and I'll just take that shortcut out entirely.

Debby
Posted: Sep. 11 2006, 14:35 ET

Brian ... our resident hacker. LOL

BrianB
Posted: Sep. 11 2006, 15:09 ET

I've been a hacker since before there were hackers.  Now I do it for a living.  What a deal.  Of course I mean hacker in the "has to know how everything works and uses his knowledge to improve the world" meaning, not the "maliciously damages computer systems" meaning.  Sadly the latter is identified with the term hacker more than the former.

Debby
Posted: Sep. 11 2006, 16:18 ET

It was the first term I was referring to. ;)

BrianB
Posted: Sep. 11 2006, 16:42 ET

I could tell you meant it the good way.  It's nice to see people using the term correctly.  

Debby
Posted: Sep. 11 2006, 17:46 ET

Well ... I'm a girl geek so I like to think of it that way.

BrianB
Posted: Sep. 15 2006, 16:37 ET

Changed another one.  ALT+E was a shortcut for "send email", but was interfering with doing an Edit, Find on a page, so I changed it to ALT+M.