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Go Get ActiveWords!Go Get ActiveWords!Go Get ActiveWords! 12/05/2003 02:09 AM
I've been remiss in not writing up my own experience with ActiveWords, but I will take this opportunity to urge you to download this program if you're a Windows user. If you were intrigued by or downloaded the Searchy plug-in, then you have an idea of how ActiveWords works. Basically, it lets you set up keyword macros that work anywhere in Windows to substitute text (email addresses, passwords, etc.), open files or folders, navigate to a web site, and much, much more. I haven't even touched the advanced scripting options, but this program has saved me hours of re-typing the same information over and over and it's made me more efficient for just getting to things. I will note a disclaimer that I got my original copy of AW for free from the company, but it's become valuable enough to me that I would pay for it. You've got a chance to get the basic version for free - grab it! This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Go Get ActiveWords!Grok Headline matches for Go Get ActiveWords!ActiveWordsActiveWords 07/17/2004 09:32 PM ActiveWords: If you don't like all the mousing around Windows, ActiveWords aims to eliminate it. ActiveWords adds words to Windows, providing a personal, portable, context free user interface with immediate response. Your words launch programs, jump to websites, send email, substitute text, and more. Receive information about any word or phrase in any context. From what I can tell, it's a hopped-up keystroke monitor. It watches every key pressed on the keyboard — regardless of application or context — and when they match something in the list of commands (the "Wordbase") you hit a specified key (default is F8) to perform an action (you can turn the confirmation key off, if you're brave and the key sequence isn't a common one). So, if "word" is mapped to the Microsoft Word executable, I just need to type "word" and press F8 to open it, which I can do in less than a second, compared to hunting around with the mouse. It's a lot like Dave's Quick Search Deskbar except that you don't have to have the GUI focus anywhere in particular since the app is monitoring keystrokes. In fact, you could be typing IN Microsoft Word at the time, and if you hit F8 after typing "excel," it would launch Excel (the demo movie does just this — and then it deletes the word "excel" for you). It also has auto-correction in any context. You know how Word changes common mispellings really quick for you? This does too, no matter what application you're working at the time. Additionally, with the higher-end versions, you can write long keystroke scripts to automate things into oblivion. I'm guessing that if you tuned this up well, it'd be a heck of a productivity improvement. Esepcially when you combine it with client-side scripting — key BAT or VBS scripts to keystrokes and you could have a lot of power rolling off your keyboard. Price? $19.95 - $49.95, depending on version. Via Shifte d Librarian. Click here to comment on this entry ActiveWords a Winner AgainActiveWords a Winner Again 12/10/2003 04:34 AM ActiveWords gets more good PR -- named to top 10 software packages of 2003 by WinPlanet. Congrats to my friend Buzz Bruggeman. ActiveWords Turns Words into ActionsActiveWords Turns Words into Actions 02/18/2003 11:12 AM Just mouse over the text you want to esearch (vacuum tube stereo amplifiers versus solid state amplifiers), hit F8, and Google pops up with the relevant links ... Grok Description matches for Go Get ActiveWords! GrokA matches for Go Get ActiveWords! Go Get ActiveWords!The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: |
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