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Hack Attack: Take Launchy beyond application launching |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: application launching, command line, exclusive lifehacker download, feature, hack attack, how to, keyboard shortcuts, launchy, lifehacker code, productivity, to do list, top, twitter |
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Most people know Launchy as a simple and lightning-fast application launcher for Windows, but it's actually capable of much more than that. Using Launchy, you can append text to files, schedule appointments, add to your to-do list, set reminders, and more—it just takes a little setting up. Today I'll detail how I use Launchy for more than just app launching.The real brains behind most of what I describe below involves using Windows batch files in conjunction with cURL (an open source command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax) and Twitter.* So if you don't already have it, go download cURL (find the Windows section), then extract the curl.exe file to C:WINDOWS. Now download this zipped folder. Inside you'll see several batch files I've prepared for you. Basically, we're going to use these batch files like plugins by running terminal commands with Launchy. First, extract them to C:Program FilesLaunchyUtilities. Then invoke Launchy, right-click the Launchy command [ Full article ] |
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