One way to be a little smarter

I'm working on getting my laptop configured so that it's both a useful home machine and office machine. That's such a pain because I've so many essential tools that I need to get across.

One of these is ActiveWords. I'll bet you've never heard of it.

What ActiveWords does is allow you to turn almost anything you type (in a document, browser window, spreadsheet, or via an ActiveWords toolbar) into a short command.
So you're writing a document and you want to put your name in, type:
  name
and the text name will be magically replaced with your name.

Filling out an online form that wants your phone number? Just setup the word fon so that ActiveWords replaces it with the right digits and you're all set!

Install a few free add-ons from the supportive folks at ActiveWords, and you can initiate a Yahoo search on any word, open a web site with a few keystrokes, or pretty much anything you want to do.

At work I have the word twoon setup to enable my second desktop monitor via ActiveWords scripting.

Sorry to go on about it, but this is a great tool, and I'm just a very satisfied customer. I bought a personal copy for myself at work and it's one of a key number of tools that make me look like a really smart person (at least some of the time).

Don't believe me? Try the free download and see what you can with it.

posted by Bernard @ 12:08 AM