SlickRun--A Yubnub for Windows programs and private URLs
Just want to put in a good word for SlickRun, which is a kind of "yubnub for windows programs". Tons of people love this little floating bar--you type in a command of a few letters to launch a program or URL. Someone has created instructions for launching yubnub commands from there too.
I like how it does autocomplete for commands--it even autocompletes when you start entering a directory path (C:\Progra...).
But the best part is the funky little sounds it makes when it recognizes (or doesn't recognize) a command you typed in :-)
I like how it does autocomplete for commands--it even autocompletes when you start entering a directory path (C:\Progra...).
But the best part is the funky little sounds it makes when it recognizes (or doesn't recognize) a command you typed in :-)
posted by Jonathan at
7/07/2006 10:37:00 a.m.
8 Comments:
No link?
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Anonymous, at 7/09/2006 7:33 p.m.
Ah yes--it is: http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
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Jonathan, at 7/09/2006 7:45 p.m.
FindAndRunRobot is way cool. I tried slickrun and preferred FARR. Cheap as free (almost) and works smarter.
Gav
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Gavin, at 7/10/2006 6:01 a.m.
Hi Gav--I've been hearing good things about that one. I'll give it a shot.
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Jonathan, at 7/11/2006 12:07 a.m.
Yeah, slickrun is awesome! I can't believe it is not part of windows. I did find a way to make it a bit better though: I wrote a small .Net console app that stores a user-defined context & allows you to associate "actions" (ie. DOS commands) to that context ("Context.exe", ironically). Action names can (and should) overlap per context. For example, I have one called "datamodel" for 6 different contexts (aka projects) right now.
So, if you are working on several projects (1 per project), you assign magic word (per project) that calls the context app & switches to that project's context. Then, you can issue the same command (using slickrun) regardless of the context and it will figure out which file/executable you actually want.
Much simpler than navigating around to essentially the same resources, using different commands/hyperlinks/shortcuts, whatever.
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Anonymous, at 9/27/2006 5:36 p.m.
Graham--nice one. Sounds like you've got 2-level commands going on there.
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Jonathan, at 9/27/2006 7:18 p.m.
Have you tried using Keybreeze? I like the UI better than SlickRun, and it has a lot more features ... macro recording, searching google, wikipedia, setting windows on top, creating notes, checking the weather, getting the memory status, i could go on, but anyway, the link is www.keybreeze.com
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Anonymous, at 2/13/2007 5:33 p.m.
Thanks Anon - KeyBreeze looks neat.
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Jonathan, at 2/13/2007 6:33 p.m.
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