How to Make Your Caps Lock Key Search the Web, Chrome OS-Style [Keyboard Shortcuts]

We've shown you many alternate uses for your Caps Lock key in the past, but if you like the idea of Chrome OS' search key (which replaces Caps Lock on the CR-48), here's how emulate it on Windows and OS X.

These tricks for Windows and Mac use the shortcut-creating AutoHotkey and Quicksilver/AppleScript combo, respectively. Essentially, they'll make it so whenever you hit the Caps Lock key, Chrome will come to the front of you rother windows, open up a new tab, and highlight the address bar, so you can search the web with one keystroke. If Chrome isn't open, it will open it for you.

If you're on Windows, just add this code to your main AutoHotkey script:

Capslock::SetTitleMatchMode, 2If WinExist("ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0")

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Press Ctrl+Shift+V to Paste Text Without Formatting in Google Chrome [Keyboard Shortcuts]

Text pasted into your browser, when using a rich text editor like the one found in Gmail, automatically takes on the formatting of the source text. Google Chrome now supports text stripping via Ctrl

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