You’re only telling me that now?

Sometimes it’s the little tricks that take you infinitely further.
In my editing software DaVinci Resolve I discovered something I absolutely have to share with you: when you want to make an image larger or smaller, for example. Or: turn the sound up and down, you can just drag the number with the mouse. For sound you can also drag on the track here and the volume changes. But that’s super imprecise and frustrating. And that’s where my tip comes in. Drag and at the same time hold the Shift key pressed.

That makes my adjustment finer. I don’t change by 10 points at once, but only by one.

If you want to take a screenshot in Windows, you don’t need an extra program. Just press Windows + Shift + S – and you can already select the area you need with the mouse. The screenshot lands directly in your clipboard. Perfect for quick notes or sharing info. No annoying saving or installing extra tools!

Email open, CTRL + V – screenshot pasted.
Photoshop open, new file, the clipboard is shown as the size. Select. CTRL + V. Done.

Small bonus: if you still have a Print key on your keyboard, you can use Windows + Print Screen to save your screenshot automatically in the Pictures folder. Super handy, right?

That you can restore accidentally closed tabs with a keyboard shortcut.
Accidentally closed a tab? No reason to panic!”

It happens to everyone: you accidentally close a tab in the browser, and that one was super important. No problem! Just press Ctrl + Shift + T (or Cmd + Shift + T on the Mac), and the closed tab is reopened immediately.

The best part? You can press this shortcut several times and so bring back tabs from older sessions too. Never again the question: ‘Where was that again?’ – your browser has saved everything for you!”

Just press Ctrl + R (or Cmd + R on the Mac),
and the page reloads.
But sometimes that isn’t enough, because the browser loads content from the cache. So it doesn’t show the current version of the website at all, but its last saved version.
That’s where Ctrl + Shift + R (or Cmd + Shift + R on the Mac) comes into play. It reloads the page completely and ignores the cache – perfect when changes aren’t showing up!”

During a video call you can simply make certain gestures, and WhatsApp recognizes them automatically:

• A heart made with your hands shows… who would have thought:
  a heart!
• Raise your thumb for a thumbs up 
• Thumbs down exists too, of course!
• Both thumbs up – and boom!
  A digital firework appears on the screen.
• With two thumbs down it starts to rain – uhhh.
• With a double rock sign you trigger a laser show
• and with the peace sign 99 balloons rise up.

I triggered the fireworks “by accident” recently and that’s how I even came up with this video. Pretty cool, right?