In this article, I would like to share with you the “enhanced” technique to clear your StumbleUpon shares from friends even faster (previous article: Clear Your StumbleUpon New Shares From Friends Faster And Easier). Shares received from friends are usually great, however it is very time consuming to read each one of them in one go, especially when your inbox are flooded with many shares. Using this technique will save you some time for sure.
Nevertheless, the technique will only work with Window Operating System & Firefox Browser with Stumbleupon Toolbar installed (yet to be tested on IE).
Important Note: This technique does not encourage you simply to ignore or thumb up every shares, doing so will lose your credibility in Stumbleupon community. At the end of the day, you still need to view all shares you received & decide whether or not to exercise your thumb. The trick is to make this process more efficient.
1 Setting Up AutoMouseClicker & Toolbar Shortcut
If your system match the one as mentioned above (I believe you are), then the first step is to download & install AutoMouseClicker. Use this program to perform automatic mouse clicks on a specific position for a number of times.
Second, setup the Stumbleupon toolbar keyboard shortcut. Basically, we just need to setup one shortcut, which is the I like it! button. Click the Tools Menu of Stumbleupon toolbar & select Toolbar Options. Go to Shortcuts Tab & check the Enable Stumbling shortcuts checkbox. Change the shortcut key for Rate “I like it!” to Ctrl+Q, click the Change & then OK buttons.
I prefer Ctrl+Q because Q is located right beside W on our keyboard & we are going to use Ctrl+W to get our job done.
2 Use AutoMouseClicker to Automate the Clicking Process
Okay, now we are ready to go, double click the AutoMouseClicker icon to launch the program. Click the Locate button, point your mouse to Stumbleupon toolbar & click the Stumble button to capture the mouse position.
Next, key in the Click Interval, this is the waiting time between two clicks. Placing a 10000 to 20000 (10 to 20 seconds) should give your browser sufficient time to load a page. You may adjust the time according to your internet connection speed.
Fill in the number of times to click, this is the number of page you want it to be opened in new tabs, follow the number on your Stumbleupon toolbar.
Now, here is the trick … press the Shift key on your keyboard 5 times, and a MessageBox will appear. Click OK to turn on the Windows StickyKeys. Then press the Ctrl key 2 times to lock the Ctrl key.
A tiny icon will appear on the right side of the Windows Taskbar, showing the Ctrl key is lock. With the Ctrl key locked (similar to holding it), clicking on the Stumble button will open your shares from friends in new tabs. (You can turn the StickyKeys off by pressing the Shift+Ctrl keys)
Adjust your Windows Accessibility Option if this doesn’t work for you. Go Control Panel & select Accessibility Option, under the Keyboard tab click the Setting button under StickyKeys. Tick to turn the options on or off accordingly. (Windows 2000, XP, Vista & 7 are similar)
Click the START button on AutoMouseClicker to start the clicking process; your new share should be opened in new tabs automatically. In the meantime, leave your computer alone & have your free time. Do other things else & come back after the clicking process is completed.
3 Use the Keyboard Shortcut to Exercise Your Thumb
Now all your shares are opened in new tabs. To continue, first we need to press Shift+Ctrl to turn the StickyKeys off.
Remember, we have setup the keyboard shortcut for I like it!, which is Ctrl+Q. Besides, the shortcut for Close Tab in Firefox is Ctrl+W. This makes our life easier … place your left hand on the left side of your keyboard, press Ctrl+Q to thumb up a page & then Ctrl+W to close the tab, repeat the step for next tab. To ignore a spammy page, simply press Ctrl+W to close it. Meanwhile, you can use mouse wheel to scroll the page down & read the contents.
Happy Stumbling! This article is inspired by this post: How to Free Your StumbleUpon Inbox From “SPAM” Shared Messages
great tips that I’ll put into practice today. I was happy just to find that clicking the scroll button opened a link in a new tab!
Want to really help me, teach me how to share to all of my friends with one or two clicks like we used to be able to do. I hate the new process.
TU and a tweet, and the tweet goes to my FB page. I’ll digg it after I comment.
This can be useful however StubmleUpon has closed the share en mass loophole
So I doubt having too many accumulated shares in the toolbar will continue to be a problem.
@McLaughlin, @Gerald Weber
I just wanted to reply McLaughlin’s comment with Gerald’s “share en mass loophole” link & Gerald comment came in. As StubmleUpon has closed the share en mass loophole, we are now facing the problem again. Nevertheless, I’m working on certain technique for this & will let you guys know once I got the solution.
Thanks.
I am puzzled about closing sharing en mass lopehole. What does it mean? How am I supposed to send my discoveries to all my SU friends at once! I feel frustrated also because noone has informed me about this. I spent a lot of time and energy trying to find out how to solve this problem. I am thinking of giving up wasting my time on discovering interesting stuff if I cannot share it with all my friends at once. Thanks for attention.
Check out share en mass loophole link provided by Gerald as above. However this loophole is now closed.
Thanks for the tips. I find myself getting behind sometimes, and it seems overwhelming. Your advice will greatly help.
Never thought that a things like automouseclicker may even exist.thnx a lot man.
Have you found a new way to quickly clear the StumbleUpon shares? I haven’t Stumbled in a while and have to go through months of spam shares before getting to the stuff I’m interested in… so frustrating!
Thanks! :-)
Try the method as mentioned in the above article. In summary, just lock the “Ctrl” key & use AutoMouse Clicker to click for you.
Many Thanks Dear for This Useful Tips, It consume more time now, We can Share our favorite to All in a Minute.
Thanx a bunch for the tip. Hate wasting time on deleting all the spam!