AutoHotKey

AutoHotKey is a free little program I recently discovered. The name is pretty self explanatory. For lack of motivation, I’m going to copy and paste from the website:

“AutoHotKey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:

• Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.
• Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
• Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing “btw” can automatically produce “by the way”.
• Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details.
• Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
• Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
• Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
• Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don’t have AutoHotkey installed.”

http://www.autohotkey.com/

Since I have made the jump over to Google Chrome, I find some things still need to be done in Firefox (DownThemAll!). I am using the following script to open the active Chrome webpage in Firefox:

#IfWinActive ahk_class Chrome_WindowImpl_0

^+f:: ;Ctrl+Shit+F

ControlGetText, URLbartxt, Chrome_AutocompleteEditView1

RegExMatch(URLbartxt,”^((ht|f)tps?|file)://\S+$”,URL)

if URL <>

{

Run “C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” %URL%

}

return

#IfWinActive