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Typing practice fundamentals - Learning keyboard step by step

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  Typing practice fundamentals The 10 finger method is a very established technique to efficiently use your computer keyboard. With some practice and the correct finger positions you can type „blindly“ on the keyboard. If you have it down, you can significantly lower your error rate and increase your typing speed at the same time. 1  Hunt and peck Although the advantages of the 10 finger-method are perfectly obvious, still many people are hunting and pecking away. Here you are staring at your keyboard until you spot the right key and then hit it with your index finger. After some years you start using more fingers and you might know the positions of the keys better – however, without a distinct finger-key-combination only a few people can manage „blindly“ and equally fast. 2  Basic position for typewriting The basic concept of fast typing is quickly explained: Your fingers take up a fixed starting position, from where you can reach any key you need. Your left fingers are placed on the

How to highlight and copy text on sites that block it

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Personally, I would not advise any of my clients to implement these restrictions on their websites since it only gives your visitors a bad experience. Below are some of the ways you can copy content from a website that has disabled text selection and/or right-clicking. 1. Disable JavaScript from the browser As I mentioned in the beginning most website use JavaScript to disable text selection and right-clicking. Luckily browsers have a setting where you can either enable or disable JavaScript and in this case disable it, save and reload the page. Once done copying don’t forget to activate javascript because some websites like facebook and other heavy rely on JS and disabling it will break these websites. Disabling javascript on google chrome browser 2. Copy from website source code Shortcut : Press control + u  Websites are written in hypertext markup language (HTML). This code can be viewed by right clicking on the website if not disabled and selecting “View source” For beginners, this

Why do ceiling fans in the US have 4 or 5 blades, and fans in India have 3 blades?

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  In US and Canada, the primary requirement for the ceiling fan is to supplement the air conditioner in summer. In winter, many of these fans with a reverse switch, can be flipped to turn the direction of the rotation so that it will draw cold air from below so warm air from the heater (usually located along the walls close to the floor or with vents on the floor) can fill the room underneath the fans. So, the ceiling fan keeps a gentle air circulation in the room. Also, keep in mind, the height of ceilings and hence volume of rooms are quite low in US/Canada homes ~ 8 ft high compared to 10–12 ft in South Asia. Typical North American fan: The fans with 4 / 5 blades are slower. Also, these fans generally have a maximum of 3 speed settings. Also, the fact that they almost always double up as a lighting fixture with 1–4 bulbs under the central hub could be one of the reasons why they need to be slow and stabilized so as not to blow the lights. The Indian fans have about 5-6 speed setting