autohotkey

Customize your keyboard, joystick, and mouse with an open source scripting language that is backward compatible with AutoIt v2. It includes a quick-start tutorial, an automatic script writer (macro recorder) that records your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and a comprehensive help file.

In addition to its automation features described below, AutoHotkey excels at hotkeys, able to make almost *any* mouse/joystick button, keyboard key, or combination into a hotkey. It can also individually disable or override Windows own shortcut keys, such as Win+E and Win+R. It may also help alleviate RSI; for example, it can create substitutes for Alt-Tab using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons.

MAJOR AUTOMATION FEATURES
- Define abbreviations that expand as you type them (auto-replace).
- Create custom GUI windows and menu bars.
- Retrieve or change the volume, mute, and other settings of any soundcard.
- Remap keys and mouse/joystick buttons.
- Send keystrokes and mouse clicks to any window (without needing to activate it).
- Launch programs, shortcuts, URLs, and documents.
- Activate, hide, close, or resize any window.
- Make a window transparent and/or always-on-top.
- Change the priority of a process or close it.
- Create custom tray icon menus and popup menus.
- Use a joystick as a mouse.
- Monitor your system (e.g. close unwanted windows the moment they appear).
- Automate game actions by detecting pixel colors.
- Retrieve and change the clipboards contents, even if it contains files copied from the Explorer.
- Perform any operation upon a set of files and folders that match a wildcard pattern.
- Read, write, and parse text files more easily than in most other languages.
- Work with the registry and INI files using the included interface commands.
- Display simple tooltips and balloon tips.
- Display dialog boxes to interact with the user.
- Convert any script into an EXE that can be run on any computer.

AutoHotkey description
AutoHotkey - script your own macros and hotkeys Customize your keyboard, joystick, and mouse with an open source scripting language (AutoHotkey) that is backward compatible with AutoIt v2.

AutoHotkey it includes a quick-start tutorial, an automatic script writer (macro recorder) that records your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and a comprehensive help file.

Automate almost anything: Send keystrokes & mouse clicks; launch programs/documents; work with the clipboard, registry, & soundcard settings.

In addition to its automation features described below, AutoHotkey excels at hotkeys, able to make virtually *any* mouse/joystick button, keyboard key, or combination into a hotkey.

AutoHotkey it can also individually disable or override Windows own shortcut keys, such as Win+E and Win+R. It may also help alleviate RSI; for example, it can create substitutes for Alt-Tab using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons.

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 dont have AutoHotkey installed.

Here are some key features of "AutoHotkey":

· Retrieve or change the volume, mute, and other settings of any soundcard.
· Remap keys and mouse/joystick buttons.
· Send keystrokes and mouse clicks to any window (without even needing to activate it).
· Launch programs, shortcuts, URLs, and documents.
· Activate, hide, close, or resize any window.
· Make a window transparent and/or always-on-top.
· Define magic words that when typed trigger an action.
· Create custom tray icon menus.
· Use a joystick as a mouse.
· Monitor your system at chosen intervals (e.g. close unwanted windows the moment they appear).
· Automate game actions using high-performance hotkeys and commands such as PixelGetColor.
· Retrieve and change the clipboards contents, even if it contains files copied from the Explorer.
· Copy, move, delete, or change the timestamp/attributes of a collection of files and folders.
· Perform any operation upon a set of files and folders that match a wildcard pattern.
· Read, write, and parse text files more easily than in most other languages.
· Work with the registry and INI files using the included interface commands.
· Display simple tooltips and balloon tips.
· Display dialog boxes to interact with the user.
· Convert any script into an EXE that can be run on any computer.

Customize your keyboard, joystick, and mouse with an open source scripting language (AutoHotkey) that is backward compatible with AutoIt v2.

AutoHotkey it includes a quick-start tutorial, an automatic script writer (macro recorder) that records your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and a comprehensive help file.

Automate almost anything: Send keystrokes & mouse clicks; launch programs/documents; work with the clipboard, registry, & soundcard settings.

In addition to its automation features described below, AutoHotkey excels at hotkeys, able to make virtually *any* mouse/joystick button, keyboard key, or combination into a hotkey.

AutoHotkey it can also individually disable or override Windows own shortcut keys, such as Win+E and Win+R. It may also help alleviate RSI; for example, it can create substitutes for Alt-Tab using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons.

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 dont have AutoHotkey installed.

Here are some key features of "AutoHotkey":

· Retrieve or change the volume, mute, and other settings of any soundcard.
· Remap keys and mouse/joystick buttons.
· Send keystrokes and mouse clicks to any window (without even needing to activate it).
· Launch programs, shortcuts, URLs, and documents.
· Activate, hide, close, or resize any window.
· Make a window transparent and/or always-on-top.
· Define magic words that when typed trigger an action.
· Create custom tray icon menus.
· Use a joystick as a mouse.
· Monitor your system at chosen intervals (e.g. close unwanted windows the moment they appear).
· Automate game actions using high-performance hotkeys and commands such as PixelGetColor.
· Retrieve and change the clipboards contents, even if it contains files copied from the Explorer.
· Copy, move, delete, or change the timestamp/attributes of a collection of files and folders.
· Perform any operation upon a set of files and folders that match a wildcard pattern.
· Read, write, and parse text files more easily than in most other languages.
· Work with the registry and INI files using the included interface commands.
· Display simple tooltips and balloon tips.
· Display dialog boxes to interact with the user.
· Convert any script into an EXE that can be run on any computer.

TabTip Tamer description
Eliminates cursor lag when using many graphics apps that utilize Wacoms pressure sensitive Penabled pen driver on the Tablet PC TabTip-Tamer is an ESSENTIAL application that eliminates cursor lag when using many graphics apps that utilize Wacoms pressure sensitive Penabled pen driver on the Tablet Pc.


The Problem:
All Tablet Pcs have a digitizer, the part of the tablet that tracks the pen input using some sort of stylus. If a user has a tablet that contains a Wacom digitizer, a user must install the "penabled" driver to enable pressure sensitivity in most drawig applications that support it.

The problem? The Wacom driver competes with Microsofts "tabtip.exe" tablet driver, and the result is horribly slow and laggy response times in all of these drawing apps! A total nightmare for most graphic artists who count on this feature! In fact, this lag is noticable even when dragging any type of window, or using firefox!


The Solution:
An early solution I had dreamed up, was to play with the priority settings of tabtip.exe, whenever using a drawing appliation, in order to smooth things out. However, this usually had the negative effect, of severely crippling the smoothness of the built in handwriting recognition panel, (the TIP) unless I manually went in and adjusted the priority of tabtip.exe back to normal.

Enter AutoHotKey. AutoHotKey is an amazing application, that can control almost any aspect of your PC with an easy to learn scripting language. It was a natural to try with my meager understanding of programming, to try and create something that did all of this automatically, taming the tabtip once and for all! After hacking away on my own bits of semi working, broken code, I signed up at the autohotkey forums, and started my plea for help.

When Tabtip-Tamer.exe is run, it runs, and sits active in the system tray waiting for the TIP to come into focus. When it does, the process priority of tabtip.exe is lowered to normal status, but at all other times, its process is set to HIGH, smoothing out pen input operations. Really, this program should be run, each time your tablet starts!

Firefox Showcase is an extension that provides a new way to manage tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar.

Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.

Here are some key features of "Firefox Showcase":

· Support for Firefox 2 beta 2.
· "Only current tabs" mode: toggle with CTRL+U. Will show only the current tab of each window. Can be enabled by default.
· Added selection area, making it easier to select thumbnails with the mouse. Works exactly as any file manager.
· Thumbnail caching. If enabled, a small capture of the different tabs will be cached, and used by Showcase when invoked. Disabled by default, can be enabled in the "Advanced" settings tab.
· Full screen plugins are now detected, and will show an icon instead of trying to render the thumbnail. Specific icons have been added for PDF, Quicktime and Flash. Other plugins show a generic plugin icon.
· Showcase can now be invoked using Firefox command line ("firefox -showcase"). This is useful when used together with an automation tool like AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com).
· Added option to hide the tab bar while using Showcase sidebar.
· Find bar state is now synchronized in Showcase tab, so its not possible to have 2 find bars at the same time. Can be disabled if necessary.
· Added new contextual menu actions: Showcase This Window, Duplicate Tab In New Window, Move Tab To New Window and Page Info.
· Added message when no thumbnails are being shown.
· All Showcase instances are updated when configuration is changed.
· Better support for custom themes. Also, looks better in Flock.
· Fixed IE Tab detection (was not working in 0.7.0).
· Improved close tab code. Focus in Showcase window will be retained when closing thumbnails.
· Focus is retained when Showcase creates a new window (for duplicating or merging tabs).
· Added new option: "Set thumbnail as the current tab when mouse cursor is over it". If activated, and in sidebar mode, a thumbnail will be selected just hovering your mouse cursor in its thumbnail. Consider deactivating the "Close Showcase sidebar if a thumbnail is opened" option if used.
· Added an independent version of Showcase for SeaMonkey ("SeaMonkey Showcase"). Also, solved the configuration panel problem, and the contextual menu actions that were not working.
· Solved Showcase sidebar title cosmetic bug when statistics where activated.
· Fixed key shortcuts with modifiers bug.
· Change Showcase sub-menu position in the "View" menu. Now its located under the "Sidebar" sub-menu.
· Added id attribute to menu items.
· If a thumbnail is focused, scroll will adjust automatically to show that thumbnail completely.
· In find bar, cursor and page keys can be used to scroll the thumbnail area.
· Added locales for Dutch (nl-NL, by Mark Heijl)and Hungarian (hu-HU, by Bernat Peter).

Swept Away description
Swept Away is a simple system tray utility that will automatically minimize the applications that you arent using Swept Away is a simple system tray utility that will automatically minimize the applications that you arent using.

If you dont like all of the distraction and clutter a desktop full of open windows and you dont minimize every window but the ones youre using, then dont. Now, rather than having to think about it, Swept Away will keeps your desktop clean for you.

What it does: Minimizes inactive windows after a user-defined period of time to keep your working desktop clear. Swept Away was inspired by the Mac-only SpiritedAway.

Usage: Theres really nothing to it - just run Swept Away, set the Time before minimizing (it defaults to 300 seconds (i.e., 5 minutes). You can choose to have Swept Away run at startup through the preferences menu, but by default it will not start up with Windows.

There are some windows that you just dont want to minimize no matter how long theyre inactive. To compensate, Swept Away has an exclusion list that lets you pick the applications you never want Swept Away to minimize.

To exclude a running application, just right-click the Swept Away icon and pick the application you want to exclude on the Exclude list. Unless you deselect it, Swept Away will never minimize windows from that application.

Swept Away is portable, so you can grab just the .exe here. Its also open source, so you can check out the source code here. Swept Away is written in Autohotkey.

Rocker description
Rocker will let you perform common tasks by simply rocking your fingers across your left and right mouse buttons Rocker is a mouse navigation software tool that will let you perform common tasks, like moving forward and backward in your browser, by simply rocking your fingers across your left and right mouse buttons.

Rock what now? Basically, a mouse rocker gesture requires that you press one mouse button, hold it down, then press the other. You can rock across the mouse from right-to-left or left-to-right; each direction you rock gives you a different result.

Once you get used to this gesture, the name makes perfect sense, and youll wonder why you werent mouse rocking your whole life.

What it does: Rocker adds mouse rocker navigation to many popular windows programs, allowing you to, for example, navigate forward and backward in your favorite web browser by rocking your fingers across the mouse keys.

Usage: I first became familiar with mouse rocker gestures while using Opera, which comes with them built in. Eventually I found a Firefox extension that incorporated mouse rocking, but I soon found myself wanting it in every application I frequently worked in - namely Windows Explorer, iTunes, and Notepad++.

In Firefox, for example, rocking your mouse buttons from left-to-right will move forward, while right-to-left will move back a page. The same basic thing is true of Explorer.

In iTunes, left-to-right tracks forward, while right-to-left tracks back. In Notepad++, left-to-right rocking switches tabs to the right, right-to-left switches tabs to the right. Make sense?

Rocker is portable, so you can grab just the .exe here. Rocker is written in Autohotkey. Rocker only includes gestures for a few programs (Windows Explorer, Firefox, Internet Explorer, iTunes, and Notepad++)