Tunes - Tuneflow

Mac OS X only: We've been fans of Quicksilver for years, but the universal application launcher and-then-some hasn't been in active development for a while. Alfred aims to pick up where Quicksilver left off.

You normally access a shortcut's properties through the right-click menu, but when you're dealing with a Windows 7 pinned taskbar button, that's just going to pull up the excellent Jump List feature. So how do you customize the shortcut?

Sometimes you just want to turn on the television and, well, actually watch TV, but maybe keep Windows Media Center handy to record or watch something else. A quick shortcut hack can start your rig up on live television.If you're used to editing program shortcuts, one of the How-To Geek's favorite Windows tricks, you can go ahead and change the target of your Windows Media Center shortcut to this line:

If you're a fan of universal memory service Evernote, but can't or won't run its desktop software for quick access, the service suggests making Evernote.com easy to search from the address bar.Evernote's team explains the process in the video above, but it's also easy to describe in text. Right-click on Chrome's address/OmniBar, select Edit Search Engines, and hit the Add button in the next dialog. From there, enter these results into the three fields:

Firefox is the most extensible web browser around but you don't even need to install any add-ons to take advantage of the numerous shortcuts that make tabbed browsing even better.

Now that Google's Buzz social network has learned from its mistakes, more users might be keen on actually giving it a go. The Google Operating System blog has a great power user's guide to the finer points of Buzz.

Imagine typing the same few keystrokes from any browser to email or clip a page, or start any kind of search. Quix is a universal browser commander, on your desktop or mobile, and it's my favorite new timesaver. Here's how it works.

Windows 7 has a lot of neat new features (such as Aero Peek) that help you see what's behind a window, but reader Verygoodyear shares a very simple, one-key solution for any Windows version that, surprisingly, is new to us.

A while back we highlighted a Google Voice Quick Reference cheatsheet you can keep near your phone that lays out Google Voice's voicemail menu tree so you can quickly skip to whatever action you want.

Gmail is easily the most popular email application among power users, and with good reason: It's an excellent app. But if you haven't gotten to know its best shortcuts, tricks, Labs features, and add-ons, it's time you made Gmail sing.Photo remixed from Google's own Become a Gmail ninja page.