Well, they aren’t really that amazing, but for Windows and Linux users, they sure save time.

• Ctrl+A: select all
• Ctrl+C: copy
• Ctrl+F: find
• Ctrl+G: find again or find next
• Ctrl+P: print
• Ctrl+S: save web page as
• Ctrl+T: open new tab
• Ctrl+U: view source code
• Ctrl+V: paste
• Ctrl+X: cut
• Ctrl+Y: redo
• Ctrl+Z: undo
• Alt+Tab: cycle through open programs
• Ctrl+Page Up: navigate forward through open tabs
• Ctrl+Page Down: navigate backward through open tabs
• Esc: stops the current tab’s web page from loading
• Ctrl+Shift+R: total refresh of the current web page — clears out the cache
• Ctrl+- and Ctrl++: adjust font size — use Ctrl+0 to reset to original size
• Ctrl+middle click / middle click: opens link in a new background tab

• Open new window: Ctrl + N
• Open new tab: Ctrl + T
• Close window: Alt + F4 or Ctrl+W
• Close tab: Ctrl + F4
• Switch focus to address bar: Ctrl + L
• Open link: Enter
• Open link in new window: Shift + Enter
• Open link in new tab: Ctrl + Enter
• Go back: Backspace / Alt + Left Arrow
• Go forward: Shift + Backspace / Alt + Right Arrow
• Reload: Ctrl + R or F5
• Go to home page: Alt + Home
• Go to next tab: Ctrl + Tab
• Go to previous tab: Ctrl + Shift + Tab
• Find in this page: Ctrl + F
• Find again: F3
• View page source: Ctrl + U
• Decrease text size: Ctrl + -
• Increase text side: Ctrl + +
• Restore text size: Ctrl + 0
• Save page as: Ctrl + S
• Save link target as: Alt + Enter
• Stop: Esc
• Clear private data: Ctrl + Shift + Delete
• DOM Inspector: Ctrl + Shift + I
• Change text size: Ctrl and scroll up/down with mouse wheel
• Switch tabs: Ctrl + n, where n = a number 1 - 9, corresponding to each tab
• Close tab: middle click (Windows default)

Looking ahead at the events planned for this year, I feel the need to completely restructure, reorganize, and streamline my entire digital universe. This will take a sweet amount of time, I realize, but given the complex behemoth that my digital archive has become due to the accumulation of over seven years’ worth of projects, reformats, and acquisitions, the time is now.

It all started out simply, with my first computer a mere two folders, “art” and “business,” were all that I needed to keep things in order. As time progressed, there were a few digital expansions, where loads of new software, hardware, documentation, support files, and resulting experimental files were heaped onto the already flimsy organizational structure that my “archive” had at that time become. Then there was college, various lines of employment, and a million scanned documents determined too important to simply toss. By this time, my artistic output had increased as well, with bandwidth intensive projects like Dead Letter Art, F-Disk Media, and StopSystem, my then new 250GB external hard drive was almost full. Along the way, I’m afraid, most attempts at “starting fresh” and reorganizing everything were shortsighted if not temporarily efficient.

So now, after having attained a small foothold on the internet with a newly designed, all-powerful Perishable Press website, I have taken a few steps back to contemplate the “big picture” and evaluate an optimal plan of attack. I truly cannot believe how inefficient and unorganized my system has become. Truly, it is a mess.

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