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David Pogue is a member of a very select club. As of today, he’s one of the few people with four talks featured on TED.com. David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips (Two others who’ve reached this mark: Julian Treasure and Juan Enriquez.) Yes, we’ve shown you his talks on simplicity in tech design, cool phone tricks and the downloading wars. But we just couldn’t help but add this charming talk that The New York Times technology critic gave at TED University during TED2013. Genuinely useful technology hacks for the whole family? Sign us up.

Watch the talk — it’s Pogue’s delivery that’s half the brilliance. But below, find a condensed version of the 10 tech basics everyone should know:

Use the space bar to scroll down a page. Hold the shift key and the space bar at the same time to scroll back up again. Tab between boxes on online forms. When there’s a pop-up menu to input details of your state, type the first letter of the state to scroll through options. To make web text larger, press control +. Mac users, make that “Command +.” Don’t bother with punctuation on your smartphone. Hit the space bar twice for a period and the next letter will be automatically capitalized. Hit the call button of your phone to redial the last person you spoke to. No need to go into your contacts. Speaking of phones, carriers have keystrokes that let you bypass the “15 seconds of fricking instructions, like we haven’t had answer machines for 45 years.” Sadly, each shortcut is different. “I didn’t say these were going to be perfect,” Pogue allows. Use Google as a dictionary by typing “define” followed with the word you want to understand. You can also use it as an FAA database for flight details. To highlight a word, don’t drag across it with the mouse. Double click it. And don’t bother deleting text; just type. Avoid shutter lag by half pressing down the button of your camera before you take a picture. For folks who still use cameras. Press “b” to black out a slide (or “w” to white it out). And make sure people are paying attention to your wonderful presentation.

So, sure. These tricks help you get the most out of your technology. And what with our recent TED@250 salon on spring cleaning your life, we here at TED Towers have been thinking about neat tricks to streamline other parts of life. So below, I’ve collected some favorite tips from the TED staff for a better, easier existence. It’s true, you might not have even realized some of the things being solved were actually issues, and it’s possible you might be right in suspecting that these are the very essence of “first world problems.” But there it is and, well, here you are: 15 more life hacks you likely had no idea you needed.