tab

1. Indenting paragraphs
2. Lining up text
3. otherwise moving the cursor left in a controlled, orderly fashion
4. Moving to the next field on a form
5. Switching weapons in Unreal Tournament (provided you have configured your keys in a superior fashion)

Tab rocks my world. Don't event get me started on Ctrl Tab.

They used to talk about them all the time in YS.

The world's second one-calorie soft drink, a competitor to Diet Rite, produced by the Coca-Cola Corporation. Tab became a hit among dieters, although not everyone liked the aftertaste from the artificial sweetener (cyclamate) used. The drink's popularity further waned upon news that cyclamate was possibly carcinogenic, at least in lab rats. Tab is still sold, with the same health warning seen on packets of Sweet'N Low, in very limited quantities. Most diet drinks now use Aspartame, but Ace-K has already won over the hearts of many.

Update 12/24/03 RoyHoo33 says i just picked up some tab, and it's now made with aspartame, but it still has the same shitty aftertaste

Update 01/18/05 sighmoan notes that the artificial sweetener used was cyclamate, not saccharine. Cyclamate was banned in the U.S. in 1969.

• They make it easy to find the page you want when you have 50+ pages open at the same time. Tabs are easier to group by topic than windows are.
• When you close a tab, where you go is predictable and related to what you are doing - you are still in the same window, so you can continue as normal, dealing with the same topic. In contrast, when you close a window, Windows kicks you into the last application you used, which is often unrelated to what you are doing.
• They reduce clutter in the taskbar. I used to have ~50 mozilla windows open all the time, most of them e2. Now I have only 2 or 3 mozilla windows, each of which contains many pages, split into categories.
• Window focus is not stolen when you open a new page: when you open something in a new window, you have to do some work to get back to where you were before. That's annoying if you want to open many pages. With tabs opening in the background, you don't lose focus, so it's nice. This is also useful for opening a link many times to move it to the top of the list of softlinks.

• You can lose a lot of open windows accidentally; if you kill a window that has 50 open tabs in it, they're all lost, and that's annoying. At first I did this quite often, since I have been so used to quickly closing and opening many new windows all the time.
• If a page is in a background tab and you are in another application, you can't go directly to that page - you have to first go to that window through the taskbar, and then click on that tab. This is a loss from when everything was kept on the taskbar. However, it isn't so bad.

1. You shop at Armani Exchange, Bebe, Banana Republic and Club Monaco.
2. You only wear black and will occasionally wear white to "mix it up."
3. You do not weigh more than 105 lbs.
4. You have never paid for dinner at a restaurant in your life.
5. Platform heels are your favorite.
6. You are a makeup expert, in fact, you appear completely flawless.
7. You do not smile in public.
8. You are the object of desire of all Asian men and you know it.
9. You smoke.
10. Your cell phone is completely customized.
11. On the inside flip of your cell phone is a sticker picture of you and your man.
12. Somewhere in your purse is a Sanrio item.
13. You only date Asians, and will only date a boy with a nice car.
14. You are often seen with rice boys.
15. You never travel alone. You are either in the company of other TAB's, or your rice boy boyfriend.

If you have no clue what a TAB looks like, you should really visit a university in America and see for yourself.

Tab (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]

1.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

2.

A tag. See Tag, 2.

3.

A loop for pulling or lifting something.

4.

A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

5.

A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.

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