29th September 1998
The keyboard is a necessary evil at the moment. Until speech recognition is accurate 99.999% of the time, we're pretty much stuck with it. So Microsoft has built in some wicked keyboard shortcuts to help save us time. I've mentioned a few of them in Lockergnome before, but this one bears repeating: ALT-F4. There's no quicker way to close a program! Don't mess with the mouse when it comes to closing time, just use this shortcut (ALT-F4).