Canon’s Digital Photo Professional has a few unpublished shortcuts, I’ve recently found out, which are very handy. I’ll list a few below.

In the quick check tool hit the SPACE key to switch between the fit to screen and the 50% views. Excellent, no need to use the mouse! By the way double-clicking the photo will also do this, in case you insist on using the mouse, but would rather not move over to the button area each time or preview the photo in full screen mode.

Also, in the quick check tool you can rate photos by repeatedly hitting the V key. It will cycle through rating 1, 2, 3, and clear.

If you select photos you’re about to ‘quick-check’, use the left and right arrow key to jump from one photo to the next.

I’m still desperately looking for a shortcut to the view before and after in the edit mode. I’ll update this blog entry as I find new useful undocumented shortcuts.

Update on Mac OS X: DPP ver. 2.2.2.3 does not support such shortcuts and one has to use the mouse. Moving in quick check tool is possible by using the arrow keys while holding the Option key–so one needs two hands (!). Sorry to find that although DPP 2.2 for Mac OS X is a fast universal binary, it still has shortcomings compared to the Windows version.

Multi-billion dollar company creates their ‘blackberry killer’, Nokia E61 business phone/PDA hybrid. It builds upon decades of EPOC/Symbian OS development and probably many millions of R&D on this particular model. Yet the phone started collecting dust particles under the screen in merely a week’s time of business (carrying in the suite pocket) use. Infuriating!

E61 is a potential bear in today’s fast expanding mobile market. Calling a product of this potential ‘E61′ throws me off the chair for a start. How about calling iPod something like “Apple Xi-M145″?

Nokia is not your backyard garage, where a group of geeks are hacking for fun. It’s rather a mammoth with over 60,000 employees reaching EUR 9 813 million in net sales just in the last quarter (EUR 1 140 million net profit). There have to be a few dollars left to create a dust-resistant screen?!?

–end of rant–

Nokia’s vision, Nokia as a company.

Some interesting links for E61 owners among you:
e-series.org blog
e61addicted.de
nokme.com
s60.com
Roman Keller’s themes