About Tavis J. Hampton

Tavis J. Hampton is a freelance writer from Indianapolis. He is an avid user of free and open source software and strongly believes that software and knowledge should be free and accessible to all people. He enjoys reading, writing, teaching, spending time with his family, and playing with gadgets.

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Articles by Tavis J. Hampton

How to Use KVM with Virtual Machine Manager

BY Tavis J. Hampton - November 16, 2011

A Guide to the KDE Notification System

BY Tavis J. Hampton - November 11, 2011

How to Secure Your Torrent Downloads

BY Tavis J. Hampton - November 2, 2011

How to Get Great Looking Fonts in KDE

BY Tavis J. Hampton - October 26, 2011

How to Optimize KDE Desktop Effects

BY Tavis J. Hampton - October 19, 2011

How to Stream Media to Your Xbox 360 or PS3

BY Tavis J. Hampton - October 11, 2011

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution Review

BY Tavis J. Hampton - June 22, 2011

How to Batch Convert and Resize Images with Converseen

BY Tavis J. Hampton - April 20, 2011

A Review of Red Eclipse, Free and Open Source FPS

BY Tavis J. Hampton - April 13, 2011

Open Source File Syncing And Collaboration With Sparkleshare

BY Tavis J. Hampton - April 6, 2011

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Do a Quick Search In Firefox With A Keystrokoe

In Firefox, you can press the "/" key in your keyboard (when your cursor is not in any input field) to quickly activate the Quick Search bar.

Alternatively, you can go to "Preferences -> Advanced -> General and tick the box "Search for text when I start typing". This will allow you to search for text in the website when you type.