KeyRocket Premium Now Includes All Shortcuts for Visual Studio

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Visual Studio Shortcuts

KeyRocket Premium support has been extended to include absolutely all Visual Studio shortcuts (including custom mappings by users). The latest release of KeyRocket streamlines web and application development by suggesting keyboard shortcuts based on individual working habits, bringing its proven shortcut teaching method to the development arena. Now every Visual Studio developer can save time and effort by eliminating unnecessary mouse clicks, no matter what their level of expertise.

Keyboard fluency is vital for developers at all levels, but finding and learning the shortcuts they need has been a daunting and time-consuming task. No longer! KeyRocket includes absolutely all of the Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 shortcuts in English (including all custom shortcut mappings). As always, KeyRocket only shows the shortcuts that each user needs. Since the tool automatically adapts to match the skill level and work habits of each user, even the most seasoned developer will learn something new.

TL;DR - Web and application developers can take their efficiency to the next level with KeyRocket shortcuts for Visual Studio. Go Premium now and forget about the mouse when you code, debug or build interfaces in Visual Studio.


Advanced Popup SettingsNow more personalized

In addition to automatically recognize the expertise level of each user, KeyRocket also let you personalize the frequency, duration and place in the screen of the pop-up notifications. Just click in ‘Pop-up settings’ once you get the notification and tune the preferences up to your needs.

Press Release - KeyRocket Streamlines Web & Application Development ByTeaching Shortcuts For Visual Studio

 

 

KeyRocket Berliner Techlist Events 17 – 23 December: The Big Closing of the 2012 Berlin Tech Events

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KeyRocket Berliner Tech List

Just a few tech and entrepreneur events this week, as Berlin winds down in anticipation of impending Christmas festivities. While waiting for regular meetings to resume in January, you still have the chance to take in some good pitch tips and become more persuasive in business, or check the latest trends in mobile technology hosted by Google. We’ll finish up the the 2012 Berlin Tech Events with tall mugs of Glühwein and sweet pieces of Stollen. Happy holidays!

Tuesday 18 December

Pimp My Pitch. If pitching makes you drive nuts, this event is the perfect solution to that problem: the Pitch Doctor, Christoph Sollich, together with Michael Ronen, the ActorPreneur, and Bianca Praetorius, the PitchWitch, will give you a free pitch coaching session to become more persuasive in business. From 5:30 to 7:30 pm at Theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Naunynstrasse, 27.

B-mobile IV – Hi on Glühwein@Google. Are you building a mobile business and want to show it to the public? Come to the B-mobile IV meeting and discuss your mobile idea with the audience. Afterwards, there will be time for Glühwein and Stollen to celebrate the upcoming Christmas festivities. Prior registration is needed! From 7 pm at Google, Unter den Linden, 14.

Wednesday 19 December

Co.holidays. Time for the last co-beers of 2012 with a wintry twist: we’ll trade beers for Glühwein, so make sure to bring food, sweets and tacky sweaters to match! Partners and friends are also welcome. From 7 pm at Adalbertstrasse, 7 – 8.

 

 

KeyRocket Berliner TechList Events 03 – 09 December: Heating Up Your Business For Winter Holidays and New Years

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Berliner Techlist
The end of 2012 is close and every single company is compiling annual reports plus setting up next steps. Between informs and plans, you may need to remember that December also means holidays and relaxation. Don’t miss these Berliner Tech Events we’ ve selected for you and get into the holiday spirit without neglecting your business.

Monday 03 December

Lean Startup Conference Livestream Event. Attend sessions and swap ideas on the lean startup approach plus drinks and pizza. Eric Ries and Steve Blank will add keynotes presentations. From 6 pm at YOU IS NOW startup incubator, Andreasstrasse, 10.

Mobile Hits 2013 – Predictions and New Year’s Resolutions. Meetup about the future of mobile tech and marketing: the next developments on the platform, cloud and app market. Join and find out what the New Year will bring to the mobile field. The speakers: Nick Sohnemann, from TrendONE; Daniel Rieber, Head of Digital Research at Interrogare; Sascha Wolter, from Developer Garden; and Stefanie Hoffmann, founding member of the MLOVE advisory board. From 6 to 10 pm. At Homebase, Köthener Strasse, 44.

Tuesday 04 December

Inaugural Berlin TechMeetups event. Connecting startups, investors and entrepreneurs from different international communities is the goal of this inaugural meetup, with livestream to London and New York. Some startups will pitch their businesses while you have some drinks. From 7:30 to 10 pm. At Agora Collective, Mittelweg, 50.

Silicon Allee Meet Up: Noel Networking. Meeting of the greats in the Berlin startup scene. RSVP is not required, just stop by and enjoy chatting and gathering new contacts while you have a coffee. From 9 am at Sankt Oberholz.

Wednesday 05 December

Collaborative Academy. Good chance to meet different players from the financing eco-system while you take away doable discoveries to make them more “investible”. From 12 to 2 pm. At Ahoy! Berlin, Windscheid Strasse, 18.

Stackoverflow Careers 2.0 launch party. Welcome to the German version of the Careers 2.0 launch! In this kickoff party you can network with Stackoverflow developers, learn how they built the product and listen to the best music by SoundCloud’s DJ’s. From 5:30 to 9:30 pm. At Betahaus Berlin, Prinzessinnenstrasse, 19-20.

1st Crowdfunding & Fundraising Roundtable. Three speakers, Jens-Uwe Sauer, CEO at Seedmatch; Mario Paladini, CEO at G1obals; and Danilo Sierra, ‘On how I raised $150,000 in one month’; will share their insights on how to make a good fundraising campaign. From 7 pm at RallyPad Berlin, Markgrafenstrasse, 12-14.

Community & Social Media Manager Stammtisch. The best German speakers community managers will attend this event to share knowledge. English speakers are welcome though. From 7 to 9 pm. At Kommerzpunk, Brunnestrasse, 196.

Thursday 06 December

6th European Venture Summit. This two day event is the largest meeting point for the creative enterpreneurs in the ICT, Life Sciences and Cleantech sectors. Thirty top international investors will select and award the top 10 presenting entrepreneurs. From Thursday 6 at 8:30 am to Friday 7 at 4 pm. At IBB Investitionsbank Berlin, Bundesallee, 210.

WhereCamp Berlin – XMas Campfire Edition. If you enjoy the first WhereCamp Berlin in summer, don’t miss this winter edition ‘to keep the campfire burning’. You are welcome to propose a topic and discuss ideas about map technologies, open source, LBS and more! From 9 am to 7:30 pm. At Beuth Hochschule Berlin, Luxemburger Strasse, 10.

Friday 07 December

GA Berlin Holiday Warmup. Epic holiday party for the naughty and nice ;) Hosted by Factory, General Assembly and TOA Berlin. Snacks, free drinks for the first to arrive, unlimited shots for presenting your business card at the bar, and a live DJ. From 7 pm at Prince Charles, Prinzenstrasse, 85.

Case Study 1: Custom Shortcuts – Unhide all Excel worksheets with a single keyboard shortcut

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Note: Want your own shortcut? Mail me at  jan@keyrocket.com!

Wouldn’t it be great if we could have custom shortcuts for the things that we do often? 
Here’s a prime example for such a bugger.

Rob Moffat pointed out to me that he often receives financial models (excel files) that contain hidden worksheets, and went on to say “you don’t understand a model until you see all the hidden sheets, do you?”. So he finds himself unhiding sheet after sheet over and over again either with the mouse:

  1. Right-click in the worksheet area to bring up the context menu
  2. Select “Unhide…”
  3. Click OK

Or with the keyboard sequence Alt > H > O > U > H + Enter.

All these actions (3 clicks or 5 keystrokes for each sheet) because Microsoft forgot to put in a function to unhide all sheets at once? Doesn’t sound convenient? No it isn’t.

When asking Google we find that there are some Do-It-Yourself solutions (with Excel VBA Macros or AutoHotKey scripts) available. Sound convenient? Not really.

So what’s the ideal solution?

  1. From your behavior, KeyRocket understands that you click “Unhide…” often
  2. KeyRocket suggests that you choose a custom shortcut to “Unhide all sheets” for example Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U
  3. KeyRocket provides the shortcut (no additional installation of macros or add-ins)
What do we have so far:

  1. From our database of feedback data (shoutout to hadoop: getting close to a billion rows :-) I  identified the Top 5 users of “Unhide”, I emailed them and one got back in less than an hour (Hi Eric :-)
  2. I wrote a tiny C# Application that sets a global hotkey Ctrl+Shift+Alt+U to unhide all sheets in the active excel application (should work for Excel 2010, 2013 in all languages)
  3. Download Keyrocket_Excel_Unhide_All_Sheets and put it in autorun or run it manually when you need it (this doesn’t have any interface, if you want to exit it for any reason use the task manager)
  4. To try it,  open any worksheet with hidden worksheets (or hide some) and then press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U. 

If you use the tool: I need your feedback! When everything goes well we will integrate the shortcut directly into KeyRocket.

That’s it, one shortcut closer to maximum productivity for every computer user on the planet!

If you can see the beauty of this, but can’t wait until we have the custom shortcuts in KeyRocket shoot me an email to jan@keyrocket.com and I’ll implement your custom shortcut as another case study!

How To Effectively Get More Out of a Company Twitter Account

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Twitter for Business

The business landscape is constantly changing. A major part of worldwide companies are now using different forms of digital and social media strategies. We have already deep into some productive tips for company profiles in LinkedIn. But when we’re talking about social media, we can’t help but talk about Facebook and Twitter. 

For this article we wanted to focus on Twitter for business so you can use a company Twitter account more effectively, increase followers and your business be better heard in the social media space. To do so, we compiled some of the strategies that Kevin Rose, the founder of the tech startup digg.com, took to reach about 1.3 million followers on Twitter plus a few essential business tips to get out more of  Twitter service.

1. Completely fill in your bio. Your tweets and @replies won’t mean much to people who don’t know you. Your bio is the only place in Twitter where you can tell people who you are, and it also appears on Twitter’s suggested user’s page. Leaving this part blank or non-descriptive won’t do much in encouraging people to follow you.

2. Write valuable tweets. Tweet something that is valuable to your followers. According to a study about what people like to read on Twitter, tweets that were labeled “worth reading” fell into four categories: Informative, Funny, Useful, and Exciting. So as long as your tweet falls into one of those categories, you have a good shot of your tweet being noticed and retweeted. It is also very important that you don’t annoy your followers. Avoid sending cryptic tweets, repeating old news, tweets with too many # and @ signs, links without commentary, and of course, boring tweets.Source: Aworldoftweets.com

3. Encourage re-tweets. Teach your followers all about re-tweeting and encourage them to re-tweet your links. This particular activity places your @username into the social graphs, which results in clicks back to your profile. You can also bookmark your content through tools like Su.pr, and track your retweets by using retweeting. According to Gary Vaynerchuk, putting links to your Twitter profile everywhere (Digg, LinkedIn, Facebook, blog, email signature…) will be really useful to increasing traffic to your account. Check out cool feedburner like badges from TwitterCounter for your blog.

4. Use #hash-tags. Hash tagging your company’ s interests and passions helps people find your quality easily. And if people find value in your content, they will definitely follow you. In addition, by replying to #hash tag memes you can stay active. Search.twitter.com lists the hot trending topics. Look for the #hash topics and jump in on the conversation.

5. Use Twitter shortcuts. Fortunately, keyboard shortcuts are also available in social networks. As shortcuts fans, we have already compiled ‘Top 10 Twitter Shortcuts‘ so your work on Twitter goes as quickly and easy as your work in Office, Windows and Gmail does with KeyRocket shortcuts. 

6. Bring your Twitter account into the real world. Wherever you go, if you give a talk, speak to a panel, present slides, or hand out a business card, make sure you display your twitter account. This makes it easy for people you meet to add you immediately.

7. Take pictures and start a contest. Images are largely re-tweeted and generally spread faster. For mobile pics use iPhone apps such as Tweetie which supports on the go uploading. In addition, contests will encourage people to add you just to be eligible for whatever prize that you’re offering.

8. Follow smartly. Since follow someone means that their tweets will show up on your homepage, you should be selective with them and always think that quality is over quantity. Twellow.com helps you sort Twitter profiles by industry while Twitterpacks let you find and add content by topic, location, company or events. Of course, don’t forget to keep following your top Twitter users closely to observe what they tweet. Pay attention to the type of content they post and also how they address their audience.

9. Use Twitter like a helpdesk. Provide and engage tech support via simple tweets or direct messages is easier and faster. Furthermore, you can even provide your support via Twitter to people who aren’t your real customers yet. There are a lot of free tools to manage customer service interaction in Twitter: Tweetdeck, HootSuite, Tweet2Tweet and InboxQ are just some examples.

10. Always keep an eye on your results. Use TwitterCounter to show you how many users you’re adding per day, and Qwitter to let you know when someone unfollows you after a tweet.

 

Typing movements

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At KeyRocket we want to bring maximum productivity and typing is a large part of it. In the last days three interesting things happend:

  • KeyRocket users would love to type faster – when asked what they like to see next in KeyRocket the winner by an amazing lead (20% click rate) was “Increase your typing speed”
  • Plateau - Really slick typing trainer (forked from Keyzen, HN Discussion)
  • Kung Fu Typing – a great blog post visualizing different finger movement for different typing techniques (HN Discussion)
I’m gathering ideas how we can bring you a daily dose of typing training by limiting the amount of time you can train (3-5 minutes is my guess) and making it fun to watch you progress with stats. If you have ideas let us know!

KeyRocket Berliner TechList Events 26 November – 02 December: Demo and Promote Your Company Strong Points

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Clients and investors should immediately recognize how useful your service or software is. The Berliner TechList events we’ve compiled this week will give you the chance to approach both, targets and capital, through web-marketing strategies and demos to the top European venture capital firms. Compile your company’s strong points and spread them to the world!

Tuesday 27 November 

Startbootcamp Berlin – Investor Demo Day. After three months working, 10 selected worldwide teams will present their business models to over 300 investors. Whether you are a mentor, an investor or just an assistant, register and get your ticket before they are sold out! From 2 to 5:30 pm at Webworker Berlin, Ohlauerstrasse, 43.

Wednesday 28 November

VC Open Office Day. Do you want to meet the top European VCs? You shouldn’t miss this meeting organized by eVentures, Passion Capital and MAS Angel Fund, where participants sign up at VClove.In and each Venture Capital firm will get your information and contact you for a possible 15 minutes to present pitches. From 11 am to 1 pm at MAS Angel Fund Offices.

Thursday 29 November

Complexity And Failure Recognition. Business consultant and physicist, Dr. Uwe Linke Mathias Bröckers, will go through the different perspectives of the term ‘complexity’ applied to business. Based on personal experiences and observations, the main goal of the talk will be to set a basis to understand and handle a company’s errors. From 6 pm to 9:30 pm at Leanovate GmbH, Ohlauerstrasse, 43.

A Complete Change of Paradigm. The founders of Duran Web Services LTD, the leading Israeli Internet marketing firm, want to bring their profitable strategies to the Berlin entrepreneur scene. Join and find out how to take control of your web marketing budgets to spread your services. From 6:30 pm to 11 pm at AHOY! Berlin, Windscheidstrasse, 18.

Use Google Search Commands To Get Useful Results On The First Page

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Google Search Commands
Who hasn’t used Google Search? And who hasn’t ever wished to have the power to eliminate half of the useless results? Before you search for ‘How to delete undesirable Google results’, keep reading to find out how you can clean up your Google searches and save time.

Worldwide Search EnginesGoogle search is the preferred tool among Internet users. It tracks an average of 4,717,000,000 queries per day and sends more than 80% of all traffic to websites around the world. In front of those statistics, we can assume that almost everything that is happening in the Universe can be googled… but, unfortunately, we can’t always find it out quickly and easily.  

Don’t underestimate simplicity. That Google Search box offers more features than it seems! Making advanced and professional searches is one of them. Everything you need to do is pick the keyword that defines what you’re searching for and add a Google Command.

Google Commands are quick keys or shortcuts used to narrow down your search and get closer results to your query. As with KeyRocket shortcuts, the only thing you need to use is the keyboard. By using some of these Google Search Commands, you will be able to find what you are looking for in half of the time. Searching like a pro. 

 1. BASIC SEARCH

  • Exact expressions: ["keyboard shortcuts"]. Enclose the words you are looking for between quotation marks will give you only the results that contain that exact phrase, and excluding, for example, results only about keyboards. 

  • Multichoice search:  [keyboard hotkeysORshortcuts]. That will return results which contains both keyboard hotkeys and keyboard shortcuts. You can also use the vertical bar | (AltGr or right Alt + 1) to get the same results: [keyboard hotkeys|shortcuts].

  • Add and subtract words [iPhone apps +free -games]. You can use the symbols + and – when you want to insist in a word or omit it in the search. 

  • Include similar words: [windows ~hotkeys]. The modificator symbol ~ (AltGr or right Alt + 4) can be useful when you want to extend the search to other synonyms of the word you are looking for. In the example, you’ll get Windows hotkeys but also Windows shortcuts, Windows shortcuts keys, etc. 

  • Search a definition: [define:shortcut]. Don’t waste time looking for a dictionary! By typing the command [define:] you will get the meaning, and the pronunciation, instantly. 

2. SPECIFIC SEARCH

  • Search for a file: [productivity statistics fyletipe:pdf]. If you need to sort your results by type of file, this is the command that you have to use.

  • Search for a range date: [dell computers 2010..2012]. To narrow within a period of time.

Search in Site

  • Search in one place of the website: [inurl:shortcut] [intitle:shortcut] [inanchor:shortcut] [intext:shortcut]. These commands let you find what you are looking for in a specific place of the site: in the url address of the page, in the text of the title page, in the text of the links (anchor) or only in the main text. 

  • Based the search only in some sites: [productivity apps site:www.download.com]. That will return only the pages hosted on download.com about productivity apps.

  • Make a calculation: [4+2-1*5/3]. Just use the common punctuation to make basic calculations: + to add, – to deduct, * to multiply, / to divide, and then press enter to get the final result.

  • Search social tags and trending topics: [@shortcuts] [#shortcuts]. These two symbols, @ and #, let you get quick access to the latest mentions and news of the topic on social networks.

  • Search for links: [link:www.keyrocket.com]. Useful for SEO, this command not always gives a complete list of results though. You can employ it when you need to estimate how many backlinks one website has.

3. ALTERNATIVE SEARCHES

  • Search based on images. You probably already know Google images search, but maybe you haven’t ever pressed on the camera icon and see what happens! Instead of looking for imagesGoogle Images

    based on text, you can upload a picture or just copy its url. You will get more information about that image, a higher resolution of the same one, its original source and similar pictures. Simply awesome!

  • Search based on voice. Forget about writing and use your voice to get results even faster. Just press the microphone icon once you are in Google search main page and clear your voice.

  • Search graphs from equations. Anytime you need the visual representation of a formula, type [graph for] and then the equation. Google search draws it for you. 

 HINTS:

-          Be careful with spaces when you use commands. You don’t need to put space after colon or any other punctuation, just write the word without space.

-          Google Search engine does not give different results if you type either cap or lower cases.

KeyRocket Berlin Tech Events 19 – 25 November: Going Beyond the Business Idea

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Berliner TechList
More than ever nowadays, enterprises require more than a good business vision. Customer’s visual experience, legal issues and marketing strategies are essential for an actual company. This week Berlin tech events offer you some good masters classes about all those topics, and more.

Monday 19 November

31 st Social Media Club Berlin. Time to work on the future of television.  Programmers, concept developers and TV makers will combine their knowledge to come up with the next steps for TV, media and future projects. From 7 pm to 10 pm at Grüner Salon, Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, 2. 

Tuesday 20 November

GA: Service Design for your Business. If you don’t really know how important design is for your customer’s experience, stop by this meetup and fill up on the latest trends in service design for business. From 6 pm to 8 pm at Etahaus, Prinzessinnenstrasse, 19-20. 

Wednesday 21 November

FI.co: Legal Orientation. Open session for startups who need some orientation about how to incorporate their businesses. Based on the teachings of the Founder Institute program. With the participation of TaylorWessing. Submit your application to join! From 6:30 pm to 10 pm at TaylorWessing, Eberstrasse, 15.

Android Session. You can’t miss this meeting if you really want to know the newest and the best of the Android world. Interesting pitches by Android specialists, such as Sebastian Erdbories, from Android Hilfe.de, and Fabiel Röhlinger, plus the launch of the brand new Samsung Galaxy Notes 10.1 LTE. From 8 pm to 11 pm. At 4010 Telekom Shop, Alt-Schönhauserstrasse, 31.

Thursday 22 November

AllFacebook Marketing Conference. Facebook is not only about social networking, it’s also about enterprising. The possibilities that Facebook has for your business are endless: Facebook pages, Facebook ads… Find out through this event which consists of several sessions about practical tips, current best practices and new perspectives. In German. From 9 am to 7 pm at Meliá Berlin, Friedrichstrasse, 103.

Quantified Self Berlin Show & Tell # 1. Awesome speakers such as Steven Dean, from g51studio; Denis Harscoat, co-founder of DidThis; and Peter Lewis, developer of “spaced repetition” (SRS) educational apps; will present self experienced pitches: the history and background of the Quantified Self movement and the self-tracking of actions and the “programmable self”. From 7:30 pm at Co-up, Adalberstrasse, 7 – 8.

Friday 23 November

AllFacebook Developer Conference. Developers and advanced users who want to go deeper in the Facebook interface should join this meeting! Find out about, in German, the different APIs, tools and capabilities of the Open Graph. From 9 am to 7 pm at Meliá Berlin, Friedrichstrasse, 103.

FridayatSix. New episode of this well-known live TV talkshow. The guests this time will be: Marc-Alexander Christ, co-founder at SumUp; Nenad Morovac, Chairman at DNCapital; and Waldemar Zeiler, CEO at Digitale Seiten. From 8 pm at SumUp Office, Paul-Lincke-Ufer, 39. 

Venture Weekend by Open Innovation Slam. Only the best 8-10 teams will have the chance to travel to Berlin and participate in this mix of workshops to improve your ideas, feedback sessions to provide helpful ideas for your innovation and inspiring encounters with innovators, entrepreneurs and experts. From Friday 23 at 4 pm to Sunday 25 at 5 pm. At Messelbau, Torgauer Strasse, 12 – 15.