Author: Matt Walsh

If you’re not satisified with listening to a traditional internet radio station, why not create your own? Yahoo’s Launchcast let’s you specify what your station plays. You begin by telling Yahoo what genres that you like, then as each song plays you can rate the song, artist and album and Yahoo will create a playlist for you based on your ratings. You can also listen to My radio station.

If you like to use Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” button, then this tweak is for you. Now you can enter “goto (search term)” and perform a Google “I’m feeling lucky” search right from IE’s address bar.
Here’s How:

Open regedit
Navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerSearchUrl”
Add a new key called “goto” (without the quotes)
Make the default string value “http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%s&btnI=I’m+Feeling+Lucky” (without the quotes)

Now open IE and type “goto (search term)” and see the results.

Everyone knows just how great Google is, so why not make searching with it easier? This tweak will allow you to search Google by typing “goo (search term)” in IE’s address bar, I would have used “go” but it requires 3 letters for the shortcut name.
Here’s how:

Open regedit
Navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerSearchUrl”
Add a new key called “goo” (without the quotes)
Make the default string value “http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%s” (without the quotes)

Now open IE and type “goo (search term)” and see the results.

The Windows key between the Ctrl and Alt keys on your keyboard can do more than bring up the Start menu, try these shortcuts:

Windows Key + D: Show Desktop
Windows Key + E: Windows Explorer
Windows Key + F: Find Files or Folders…
Windows Key + M: Minimize All Windows
Windows Key + Shift+M: Undo Minimize All
Windows Key + R: Run…
Windows Key + Tab: Select Task
Windows Key + Break: System Properties
Windows Key + F1: Windows Help

You can also create your own shortcuts with the free Winkey software from Copernic.
Click to download
I use C for calculator and N for notepad, among others.