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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. The tallest building in Europe (the 268-metre Naberezhnaya Tower) is in Moscow, where construction of an even taller building was stopped this week.
  2. Ping.fm also lets you update your (Twitter, Facebook, etc) status via IM.
  3. You can skip typing 'www.' and '.com' in the address bar if you press Ctrl and Enter together. Found out in Chrome but checked and it works in Firefox, IE7 and Safari.
  4. Greasemonkey's founder, Aaron Boodman, works on the Google Chrome team.
  5. Illy coffee and Coca-Cola announced a global joint venture to produce a premium ready-to-drink espresso in October 2007. My caffeine days are over, but I am curious to know if this is out yet, or if it has flopped before even being released.
  6. Music producer and songwriter Felix Howard (who wrote, among other things, Stronger for the Sugababes) was the child dancer in Madonna's 'Open Your Heart' video.
  7. If you copy some text and paste it into a folder, Windows will create a 'Scrap Object'. I accidentally found out at work using XP, then tried it at home but the paste option does not seem to be available on Vista Home Premium.
Posted by Luca in 7 things on Monday 24 November 2008. 3 comments

3 Responses to “7 things I did not know last week”

  1. Gordon Says:

    Blimey, the CTRL+ENTER trick is one of those that I just presume everyone knows! Think it was IE 5 that introduced that one.

    Hmmm there's a blog post in the making there…

  2. mike Says:

    I use that CTRL-ENTER shortcut all the time. It's great.

  3. Luca Says:

    I know, for some reason it went past me! Weird huh?