I was one of the lucky few South Africans that had access to #NewTwitter only a few days after it went live, and since then I have been playing around with it and discovering all sorts of new “hidden” features.

The #NewTwitter was created with ease of use in mind, no more navigating away from your main timeline to view images or videos, or going from page to page to follow a conversation between Twitter users, everything are now displayed on one page with the use of nifty slide out panels.

Apart from the fancy sliding panels there is a hidden features that I stumbled upon by accidentally hitting the R key on my keyboard. #NewTwitter has a handy set of keyboard shortcuts you can make use of.

After some playing around I found the above screen detailing a list of all available keyboard shortcuts for #NewTwitter. The shortcuts range from replying to tweets, retweeting, compiling new tweets, to going to certain user profiles with just the push of a button.

If you are enabled for #NewTwitter you can just press the ? key on your keyboard and it will bring up the above shortcut screen, now go test those shortcuts.

If you are on Twitter you can follow me at @diekloon

Hopefully you have already downloaded and installed Firefox 3.5 on your PC, if not do yourself a favour and download it here. Even if you are a regular Firefox user am sure you do not know all keyboard shortcuts for all possible options. So to make your life easier, I present the complete list of all keyboard shorcuts in Firefox 3.5.

Here we go,

Navigation

• Back – Alt+Left Arrow, Backspace
• Forward – Alt+Right Arrow, Shift+Backspace
• Home – Alt+Home
• Open File – Ctrl+O
• Reload – F5, Ctrl +R
• Reload (override cache) – Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+Shift+R
• Stop – Esc

Current Page

• Go to Bottom of Page – End
• Go to Top of Page – Home
• Move to Next Frame – F6
• Move to Previous Frame – Shift+F6

Page Info

• Page Source – Ctrl+U
• Print – Ctrl+P
• Save Page As – Ctrl+S
• Zoom In – Ctrl++
• Zoom Out – Ctrl+-
• Zoom Reset – Ctrl+0

Editing

• Copy – Ctrl+C
• Cut – Ctrl+X
• Delete – Delete
• Paste – Ctrl+V
• Redo – Ctrl+Y
• Select All – Ctrl+A
• Undo – Ctrl+Z

Search

• Find – Ctrl+F
• Find Again – F3, Ctrl+G
• Find As You Type Link – ‘
• Find As You Type Text – /
• Find Previous – Shift+F3
• Web Search – Ctrl+K, Ctrl+E

Windows & Tabs

• Close Tab – Ctrl+W, Ctrl+F4
• Close Window – Ctrl+Shift+W, Alt+F4
• Move Tab Left (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+Left Arrow, Ctrl+Up Arrow
• Move Tab Right (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+Right Arrow, Ctrl+Down Arrow
• Move Tab to Beginning (when tab is focused) – Ctrl +Home
• Move Tab to End (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+End
• New Tab – Ctrl+T
• New Window – Ctrl+N
• Next Tab – Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Page Down
• Open Address in New Tab (from Location Bar or Search Bar) – Alt+Enter
• Previous Tab – Ctrl+Shift+Tab, Ctrl+Page Up
• Undo Close Tab – Ctrl+Shift+T
• Select Tab (1 to – Ctrl+(1 to
• Select Last Tab – Ctrl+9

Tools

• Bookmark All Tabs – Ctrl+Shift+D
• Bookmark This Page – Ctrl+D
• Bookmarks – Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I
• Caret Browsing – F7
• Downloads – Ctrl+J
• History – Ctrl+H
• Clear Private Data – Ctrl+Shift+Del
• Error Console – Ctrl+Shift+J

Miscellaneous

• Complete .com Address – Ctrl+Enter
• Complete .net Address – Shift+Enter
• Complete .org Address – Ctrl+Shift+Enter
• Delete Selected Autocomplete Entry – Del
• Toggle Full Screen – F11
• Help – F1
• Select Location Bar – Alt+D, F6, Ctrl+L
• Select or Manage Search Engines (when Search Bar is focused) – Alt+Up Arrow, Alt+Down Arrow, F4

Hopefully you know most of these already and have learned a few along the way.