Minimal Simple

One of the best things about working with computers is that there is no limit as to how much you can learn. As long as you think along the lines of life-long learning, you'll be able to easily increase your productivity. One of the simple, yet often overseen aspects of increasing productivity is the utilization of keyboard shortcuts. 

In this post, we'll focus on windows shortcuts. 

Let's start of with an easy one: hold down the Windows key (the key with the windows logo, usually two buttons to the left of the spacebar) , and press the letter "d" (do not release the Windows key before you have also pressed the "d"!).

Voila, you can see your desktop!

In Windows 7, if you press the Windows key, and while holding it, press the tab key, you'll get a cool little feature that shows you all currently active windows, some kind of an active windows slideshow of sorts.

It is truly amazing how much you can increase your productivity by simply learning and implementing these shortcuts. 

Learning and properly using keyboard shortcuts in a variety of apps is almost as high a productivity leap as it is learning how to touch-type. But we'll touch on that one in some other post.