keyboard shortcuts with CTRL

Hi all,

I'm developing an enterprise application and all users scream for
keyboard shortcuts.
And not shortcuts like you see in GMail (focus some widget, press c to
compose a new mail etc) but true CTRL+N, CTRL+S like you see in a
desktop application.
I thought it really couldn't be done, till I tried the google docs in
Chrome: CTRL+B made my text bold. Wow, that works! But probably it
only works on Chrome right, I thought, so I didn't really believe in
it and let it pass.

Then I saw Microsoft releasing keyboard shortcuts in Hotmail. I tried
one and I got a pop up saying "hey you pressed some key, did you mean
it as keyboard shortcut?"... hahaha, so again I let it pass and
thought it couldn't be done.
But today I saw Microsoft releasing their Word, Excel... Office suite
on-line (search for Office Web Apps). I tried CTRL+B and it put my
text in bold and didn't show my Bookmarks bar instead! In IE8 and
Chrome.

Now, some proof that it doesn't really work all of the time: I
selected the text on the top of the page, hit CTRL+S and nothing
happens... there goes my belief in in-browser keyboard shortcuts
again.
I guess the keyboard listener is only put on the textarea and ribbon
bar and not a "true browser window listener".

Still, my question stands:
how can I block keyboard shortcuts like CTR+O, CTRL+N and do something
with them instead of letting the browser handle them (CTRL+N typically
opens a new browser window, I don't want that)? Any advice is much
appreciated.

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