Clear Your StumbleUpon New Shares From Friends Even Faster

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