{"id":22252,"date":"2011-08-20T17:35:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/unblogged-bits-sat-20-aug-11-1735-3.html"},"modified":"2011-08-20T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T23:35:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-20-aug-11-1735-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/unblogged-bits-sat-20-aug-11-1735-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 20-Aug-11 1735)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ztK7pH8rzbg\/90-percent-of-us-net-users-dont-know-from-crtl-f.html\">90 percent of US net users don\u2019t know from crtl-F<\/a> &#8211; While I use both the keyboard shortcuts mentioned, I would submit they are not necessary for effective or efficient use of the computer, as both have mouse-clickable means of doing them.  (Also, some MS products don&#8217;t use Ctrl-F, but Ctrl-F4, which is endlessly irksome.)  Are these handy things to tell someone? Sure.  Are they critical, vs. knowing you can search in a document in the first place? 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