Laravel From Scratch [Part 6] - Forms and Data Insert to the Database

47 Keyboard Shortcuts That Work in All Web Browsers

Each major web browser shares a large number of keyboard shortcuts in common. Whether you’re using Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, or Opera – these keyboard shortcuts will work in your browser.
Each browser also has some of its own, browser-specific shortcuts, but learning the ones they have in common will serve you well as you switch between different browsers and computers. This list includes a few mouse actions, too.

TABS

Ctrl+1-8 – Switch to the specified tab, counting from the left.

Ctrl+9 – Switch to the last tab.

Ctrl+Tab – Switch to the next tab – in other words, the tab on the right. (Ctrl+Page Up also works, but not in Internet Explorer.)
Ctrl+Shift+Tab – Switch to the previous tab – in other words, the tab on the left. (Ctrl+Page Down also works, but not in Internet Explorer.)
Ctrl+W, Ctrl+F4 – Close the current tab.
Ctrl+Shift+T – Reopen the last closed tab.
Ctrl+T – Open a new tab.
Ctrl+N – Open a new browser window.
Alt+F4 – Close the current window. (Works in all applications.)

Mouse Actions for Tabs

Middle Click a Tab – Close the tab.
Ctrl+Left Click, Middle Click – Open a link in a background tab.
Shift+Left Click – Open a link in a new browser window.
Ctrl+Shift+Left Click – Open a link in a foreground tab.

NAVIGATION

Alt+Left Arrow, Backspace – Back.
Alt+Right Arrow, Shift+Backspace – Forward.
F5 – Reload.
Ctrl+F5 – Reload and skip the cache, re-downloading the entire website.
Escape – Stop.
Alt+Home – Open homepage.

ZOOMING

Ctrl and +, Ctrl+Mousewheel Up – Zoom in.
Ctrl and -, Ctrl+Mousewheel Down — Zoom out.
Ctrl+0 – Default zoom level.
F11 – Full-screen mode.

SCROLLING

Space, Page Down – Scroll down a frame.
Shift+Space, Page Up – Scroll up a frame.
Home – Top of page.
End – Bottom of page.
Middle Click – Scroll with the mouse. (Windows only)

ADDRESS BAR

Ctrl+L, Alt+D, F6 – Focus the address bar so you can begin typing.
Ctrl+Enter – Prefix www. and append .com to the text in the address bar, and then load the website. For example, type howtogeek into the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter to open www.howtogeek.com.
Alt+Enter – Open the location in the address bar in a new tab.

SEARCH

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+E – Focus the browser’s built-in search box or focus the address bar if the browser doesn’t have a dedicated search box. (Ctrl+K doesn’t work in IE, Ctrl+E does.)
Alt+Enter – Perform a search from the search box in a new tab.
Ctrl+F, F3 – Open the in-page search box to search on the current page.
Ctrl+G, F3 – Find the next match of the searched text on the page.
Ctrl+Shift+G, Shift+F3 – Find the previous match of the searched text on the page.

HISTORY & BOOKMARKS

Ctrl+H – Open the browsing history.
Ctrl+J – Open the download history.
Ctrl+D – Bookmark the current website.
Ctrl+Shift+Del – Open the Clear Browsing History window.

OTHER FUNCTIONS

Ctrl+P – Print the current page.
Ctrl+S – Save the current page to your computer.
Ctrl+O – Open a file from your computer.
Ctrl+U – Open the current page’s source code. (Not in IE.)
F12 – Open Developer Tools. (Requires Firebug extension for Firefox.)
Does one of these keyboard shortcuts not work in a specific browser, or is there another important one we missed here? Leave a comment and let us know.

What is your Opportunity Discerning Quotient?

Two weeks ago my fifteen year old daughter Funmi made me an offer. She wanted me (her traditional father) to get her an iPhone to which I declined and then she offered to work for it. She would be one of my agents selling my books on commission. She started selling and the money started rolling in for her. It got me thinking. Why do some people see opportunities while others see only the obstacles? Funmi had a need. There were barriers but she saw an opportunity and she went for it. There is a phrase I coined for the ability to see opportunities which I call the Opportunity Discerning Quotient (ODQ).

A persons ODQ is not about how academically intelligent a person is but about how smart they are. There is a difference. Smart thinking and intelligence are not the same. I have seen some extremely intelligent but practically dumb people in my lifetime. The fact that you come out tops in an IQ test does not mean you will come out tops in life. I’m sure we all know people who are so intelligent yet whose lives do not reflect the kind of intelligence that they radiate. What is the point in being great at winning in arguments and aptitude tests and yet not winning in life? The three most common traits that run through people with a very high ODQ are; Humility, Tenacity and the application of knowledge.

Humility is what makes a person teachable. It is what makes a person ready to unlearn some things to learn others. It is what makes a person result driven instead of being confined by the fear of failure or criticism. Humility is what causes a person to know that all that they know is not all that is to be known about anything. It makes them understand that their way is not the only way or the absolute way.

Tenacity is what makes people insist on finding a way even when there seems to be no way. It births the mindset that says if there is no way then maybe it is my calling to create the way. The lack of tenacity is what makes many people not to see beyond the obvious. Those who do not look beyond the obvious can never achieve beyond the ordinary. Most people look at what has been done to determine what they can do. They get permission from the past to live in the future. Others are tenacious enough to demand for a future that has no connection with the past and they go ahead and create that future. Their actions then give permission to the majority – the masses that can do nothing unless they have proof that it has been done before and that it worked.

The application of knowledge is another determinant of ODQ that rates very highly. Academically Intelligent people are excellent with the abstract. They can do well with equations. They remember case studies. They can tell you who did what where and when. Smart people are able to take that knowledge and convert it. They are able to adjust and amend it to produce results for them. They are able to bend the story and stretch it and force it to apply to their situation. For the normal intelligent people, the story remains someone else’s experience and they can tell you that persons experience with passion but they are never able to convert or apply it to solve problems. That disconnect between what is learned and how it is applied is a major indicator of ODQ levels. It is not just in reading. It is in identifying that you can take what you read about or learn, contextualize it and then reproduce it. Many people dissociate themselves from the things they read because they have an inbuilt mechanism that tells them it cannot work for them.

The person with a lower level of intelligence but high level of humility, tenacity and application of what they know is more likely to see opportunities quicker and be more successful than the person with a high level of intelligence who is proud, lives within the obvious and is a reservoir of knowledge instead of being a processor of knowledge.

Remember, the more conservative the thinking, the less dramatic and inspiring the results.

Wale Akinyemi

Continually pop out your friend's CD Drive.

Description: This VBs coding is used to eject and insert cd drive of your friend's computer.
To use This Vb Script Just copy the vbs code given below on a notepad file and save it as myscript.vbs
To stop this Vb script..Open Task manager by Pressing ctrl+alt+del
and then click on Process tab and kill the process "Wscript.exe"


Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7")
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
do
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
End If
wscript.sleep 5000
loop

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Geoffrey Karani Kamundi

IQ Test

The Binet Scale

Normal --     IQ 85-115
Deficient --  IQ 71-84 (fool?)
Moron --      IQ 51-70
Imbecile --   IQ 26-50
Idiot ---        IQ 0-25

What is your value as a person?

Have you ever tried to measure your value as a person? The fact that you are present does not mean you are valuable. Value is determined not by being present but by making your presence positively significant. This is the game changer. If your presence in an organization or in your world for that matter does not amount to positive significance then you are not only a waste of space but in actual fact an obstruction. This is because it means you are seated in the space where someone else could have sat and made positive significance. Every agent of mediocrity is an obstruction to agents of transformation. Every organization has two kinds of people – the value adders and the parasites. Parasites do not add value but live off the value added by others and the parasites are always the first to complain about what is not working! What determines which you will be is a choice that you will have to make by yourself. No one can do it for you.

The first question that needs to come to mind in determining the value that you add is to simply ask yourself the effect of your not being there. Author and speaker Robin Sharma wrote a book with an interesting title. It was titled ‘When you die who will cry? Frankly speaking there is no point in dying if you never lived. The fact that you breathe does not mean that you live. The fact that you move around does not mean you are progressing. The fact that you are making noise does not mean you are being heard. Life is measured by impact and not by being present. You need to have your trademark signature on everything you do. In essence you may do what everyone does but you do it in a way that no one else does it. This becomes your signature and this is what people will remember. What will differentiate you from the masses is your uniqueness.

Ironically uniqueness is one of the greatest things that has been fought by many and indeed by society. (Yet when it thrives they claim it and celebrate it). No one wants to be different. Everyone wants to take solace in the fact that it was once done like this by someone else. Everyone wants to hide behind the uniqueness of others. The difference between an ordinary stone and a precious stone is rarity. Value is always tied to uniqueness.

I cannot but talk about this wonderful staff of Kenya Airways that I met once at the airport. It was one of those days when the traffic on Mombasa road was hellish. I got to the airport late. Unlike the normal treatment where the person at the counter begins to give a lecture on how you are supposed to be at the airport an hour before and all that, this one spared me. She empathized and made me relax and then went out of her way to help me. She differentiated herself by her uniqueness.

Uniqueness is not hard to come by. The problem is that we have copied people so much that we have forgotten our true identity. When mediocrity becomes so entrenched to the point of being cultural then creativity will appear to be the odd one out. Remember, in a world dominated by fools, the wise appear to the majority as being the fools.

You can find your true self again. The value that you may bring – just like that wonderful airline staff may be a smile to brighten up someone’s already frustrated morning. The airline that can constantly give me people like this lady will surely be the airline of choice not just for me but for many. By her unique smile and sense of service she added value. She was not just present. Her presence was positively significant. The next time I travel if she is not there and the person that attends to me does not add to me, I will truly miss that other lady. When absence is unfelt, presence was unnecessary.

Your absence will either create a vacuum or create joy. If it creates joy then your presence was merely tolerated and not celebrated.

Wale Akinyemi