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Time-Saving Tech
   I’ve noticed something interesting about society and culture. Everything risky requires a license, like, learning to drive, owning a gun, getting married. That’s true in everything risky, except technology. For some reason, there’s no standard syllabus, there’s no basic course. They just give you your computer. Nobody ever sits down and tells you, "This is how it works." So today I’m going to tell you six things that you thought everybody knows, but it turns out they don’t.
   First of all, on the web, if you want to scroll down, don’t pick up the mouse and use the scroll bar. That’s a terrible waste of time. Do that only if you’re paid by the hour. Instead, hit the Space bar. The Space bar scrolls down one page. Hold down the Shift key to scroll back up again. It works in every browser, in every kind of computer.
   Also on the web, when the text is too small, what you should do is to hold down the Control key and hit Plus, Plus, Plus. You make the text larger with each tap. Works on every computer, every web browser, or Minus, Minus, to get smaller again.
   When it comes to cell phones, on all phones, if you want to redial somebody that you’ve dialed before, all you have to do is to hit the call button, and it puts the last phone number into the box for you, and at that point you can hit call again to actually dial it.
   Something that drives me crazy: When I call you and leave a message on your voice mail, I hear you saying, "Leave a message," and then I get these 15 seconds of freaking instructions. It turns out there’s a keyboard shortcut that lets you jump directly to the beep like this.
   Shutter lag is the time between your pressing the shutter button and the moment the camera actually snaps. It’s extremely frustrating on any camera under $ 1,000. So, that’s because the camera needs time to calculate the focus and exposure, but if you pre-focus with a half-press, leave your finger down—no shutter lag! You get it every time. I’ve just turned your $50 camera into a $1,000 camera with that trick.
   And finally, it often happens that you’re giving a talk, and for some reason, the audience is looking at the slide instead of at you. So when that happens—this works in Keynote, PowerPoint, it works in every program—all you do is to hit the letter B key, B for blackout, to black out the slide, make everybody look at you, and then when you’re ready to go on, you hit B again, and if you’re really on a roll, you can hit the W key for "whiteout," and you white out the slide, and then you can hit W again to un-blank it.
   So I know I went super-fast. If you missed anything, I’ll be happy to send you the list of these tips. In the meantime, congratulations! You all get your California Technology License. Have a great day!