There are various keyboard shortcuts that one can use to navigate and manipulate text very quickly and easily using only your keyboard. Some of these shortcuts include Copying, Cutting and Pasting. These are fundamental shortcuts that everyone should know because they are virtually universal in all text programs as well as in your operating system and will make your life easier.

For copying simply select the text you want to copy and press CTRL and C at the same time. Then move to the place you want to paste it and press control V. If you want to remove the text from the original spot you can Cut it by pressing CTRL and X and then paste it using CTRL and C.

You can navigate text quickly by using CTRL. Simply hold down the CTRL button and use the arrow keys and you will move by a single word. A word is defined by being separated by a space. Sometimes if there are hyphens this method will go to the hyphen, but in general it will move by the word separated by a space.

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I logged in today and saw that WordPress is updated. This brings up the issue of backing up your database. It is good practice ANYWAY, even if you are not upgrading the script, to make backups of your precious data. I learned the hard way when my server crashed back in April and I lost my WordPress database completely. I found a link to a site that gives you information on how to backup your database using a cronjob. Basically, a cronjob is a scheduled task that can run at given intervals. This can be setup via a control panel or via an SSH terminal.

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/cron/

I ran into the problem on my VPS. I didn’t have mutt installed by default and because of this I thought about modifying the script to allow for daily backups to be made and the previous one to be deleted. If you are interested in this script contact me and I’ll be happy to give it to you.

 

How many times have you gotten half way down the page typing and something has happened that made you lose the whole thing? It has happened to me many times (unfortunately). If you are using Microsoft Word it does have a back up and recovery feature, but it isn’t foolproof, you still can lose a lot of work.

There are many other programs that may be used on a daily basis that don’t have this recovery feature. One rule of thumb is to save right away and then save every 5 or so minutes. I suggest every time you are done with another paragraph or a big change click that save button or press CTRL + S.
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