Tag: AUTOHOTKEY

There are certain words in English that are very easy to get wrong, like aggravate, exaggerate, and acquainted (as you see in the screenshot). AutoCorrect for English (ACE) is a fantastic script for correcting exactly those type of mistakes, and it does so seamlessly, quickly, and across your entire system. ACE is very easy to overlook it, because it hasn't been updated since 2007, it doesn't ...

"System-wide" hotkeys, also known as "global hotkeys," are keyboard shortcuts that work on every program -- such as Alt+F4 for closing the active window. They can be quite handy, especially once you become accustomed to using them. If you want to add some global hotkeys to your system, the usual thing would be to learn how to use AutoHotkey. But AutoHotkey is a programming language, and not ...

AutoHotkey is one of the most incredible applications ever. As far as programming languages go, it's not exactly elegant. But it is easy to learn (if not to master), free, open-source and insanely powerful. But I guess you might already know all that. What you might not know is why no new AutoHotkey version has been released since September 25, 2009. That's almost a year of stagnation: for one of ...

Windows 7 has some really cool hotkeys. My personal favorites are the ones for managing windows: Win+Right (or left): Make the window take up right (or left) half of the screen. Win+Shift+Right (or left): Bounce window to next monitor (very handy!) Win+Up: Maximize window. Win+Shift+Up: Maximize window vertically. Win+Down: Restore window (unmaximize it if it's maximized), or minimize ...

Before Windows 7 came out, I used to love Launchy. I'm a keyboard-centric kind of guy, and a keyboard launcher fits in perfectly with my workflow. Launchy wasn't the only app I tried; I think I went through just about every major keyboard launcher for Windows and quite a few minor ones as well (including several AutoHotkey scripts). And then Windows 7 came out, with its shiny new Start menu. No ...

If only there were a way to cram a kitchen sink through a DSL line, I'm quite sure TriX's author would have been one of the first to adopt this technology. As it is, TriX must somehow make do with merely providing hotkey hooks for volume control, data export (more on that later), system power, zipping/unzipping, on-the-fly calculator, text to speech, eight different string processing functions ...

Windows Vista and 7 have a new audio subsystem, with lots of neat features. It is not, however, without its quirks. One such quirk is the inability to automatically change the default audio device; you must do it manually. This means that if you have both headphones and speakers plugged into your computer, whenever you want to pipe all sound through the headphones you must right-click the volume ...

Adobe Photoshop CS5 has a new feature that digital artists have been demanding for years: it's called the HUD Color Picker and I'm sure it's making Photoshoppers dizzy with excitement. That is if they even know it exists -- you see, the HUD (heads-up display) is buried under a truly atrocious shortcut: Shift+Alt+Right Click. Still, if you have Photoshop CS5, try it -- you can see it in the ...

DonationCoder has produced a number of useful utilities, and today they contacted us to let us know about a new one: TapTap Hotkey Extender. As is often the case with DonationCoder applications, TapTapHotkey Extender is a tiny little utility that takes up almost no resources, and does one simple thing well. The idea behind TapTap Hotkey Extender is to to take typical hotkey shortcuts, and ...