Quick Net Browsing!

If surfing the internet faster with minimalist approach is your idea of working leisurely in office then I have something very interesting for you, there are millions of web users but hardly 20% of them know super fast web browsing tactics, this article is specially for them coz that cuts down on their time and can do work quicker without searching for options. As you get accustomed to your key boards, some things or steps just follows automatically when you start working over it and within a month’s time you get used to those commands and shortcuts while using your computers. Similarly, even I have made up some habits while net browsing all these years and as most of my work happens over my laptop, my walking office! I have found out even more such tools which would help me to send those commands to computer faster, often while stumbling upon someone in a conference room and looking at their working I wonder, oh my god, when are they going to reach the last option now? For me, its just a matter of few seconds and for them perhaps 5 minutes, I am not trying to brag here, but given the fact when computers do allow their users with such short cut options, why aren’t people using them and instead lengthening their tasks?

This might be the common question, computer freaks may be asking in and out, although there are super human beings too, whom I call jumping monkeys doing the work in a blink of an eye (faster than me, yes!) for them its more of a play than work, its their style of work and even you can work in your own created style and doing the work even faster and

better. Today, I bring you some of my tips, which I follow religiously while browsing the net, you need not follow all of them and some might seem even common to you but there are millions on the other side of universe who don’t know even simple shortcuts for browsing the net.

1. Use a browser having minimalist approach so that you can work faster, for normal web browsing geeks I advice working on Internet explorer, depends more on the operating system you are using. For Mac users, I had preferred Camino or Opera; they are just superb in their working. For a more faster working browser, you can opt for Firefox, it is standard complaint and modern, if your office guys are not working on this, then ask them to be a little modern and switch to, what world is using.
2. I have often seen people wasting most of their time in opening a new web browser while they can open new tabs in the same window makes your work faster and easier and you can even switch between them in just one window and there is no chance of your windows getting misplaced.
3. Most of the times the shortcuts we use in our daily computer chores are the same which we use on the web browser, learning keyboard shortcuts helps greatly as it consumes less time searching for options on title bar. The Mac users can use command T to open a new tab, command L to go to browser’s location, command D for bookmark and Command W to close a window, similarly there are lots of other shortcuts you can discover yourselves by making use of help option in your PCs or laptops.
4. Setting up keywords bookmarks makes your work faster on browsers and with speed dial options; you can extract your web page in a matter of just few seconds. Some browsers have keyword bookmarks and it takes less than a minute to set up one, to make such setting, click on the properties of bookmarks and set up the keyword.
5. Besides your regular google search, you can set up a keyword search for the pages you frequently visit. You can set up searches in the websites like flickr, amazon, IMDB, Wikipedia, Ebay, Wiktionary, etc. each of your saved webpage searches, you will have a keyword for your later reference.
6. Apart from general bookmarking of the sites we usually do, bookmark the resource pages and online books pages, that is called as fast online bookmarking, even if you don’t have much time at your end to browse through the page you can refer them later and carryon with your work for time being.
7. Flash sites are really annoying, as they take hell lots of time to load on the browser, and especially sites like youtube are totally dependent on such applications. Even if you don’t refer to these sites, even the ads, banners are made in flash, which takes too much time loading, you can go and turn off in preferences in your web browser settings.
8. Make use of bookmarklets, to avoid unnecessary clutter in the pages you are browsing, it provides you with great reading experience.
9. Extensions make your browser working slow, so turn them off, Firefox have big numbers of extensions supporting the sites but if you happen to use too many it will slow down your working process.
10. Making use of tabs is a good option but don’t open too many of them as that will make your browser slow in its working.
11. Switch off the toolbars, you don’t use on a regular basis, it makes your working more clear and focused without the clutter.
12. Make use of the tools like 1password or keepass, that stores your passwords safely in the browsers, people tend to forget their passwords often with too many web accounts or have to keep the same password for even their important transactions which is not very viable solution.
13. Often we see people get distracted from their work due to disruptions made by internet applications, install the “Freedom” software which is free to download and allows you to work on your systems 8 hours at a stretch with no distractions.

Some of you might be reading all these tips for the very first time, while some have already become experts in running their hands on web browsers, as time passes, you will get used to the practice of following short cuts, prepare your short cut list today and hang it on your office wall!