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Sounds like a new interpretation of the keyword navigaion/launching system introduced in Launchbar (http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/) which by the way is a great way to find just about anything.
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Hi:
Thanks for the virtual ink. We have looked at Launchbar, which only runs on the Mac, and tried to get them interested in building a version of ActiveWords for the Mac. We would like to think we do a lot more than Launchbar, and look forward to all comments, positive and negative. We also have a very active forum.
www.activewords.com/forum
Buzz of ActiveWords fame...
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I was impressed by the text substitution feature. But I lack visual feedback on what the result from my typed word will give. And what if Active words misinterprets what I want to do. E.g. If I want to mail "Smith" and also have a document named "Smith". How do I pick the correct choice? That is where I can see where Active words can be improved.
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If you type smith, and you have both a name Smith say in our Outlook agent and a document named Smith, we bring up a mini-directory with both choices. You toggle to the choice, hit enter and whammo you get your desired result.
Try it, and you will see how we handle it.
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 13, @10:14AM EST (#7)
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ActiveWords allows you to name multiple actions with the same ActiveWord (e.g., "Smith"). When you trigger the ActiveWord "Smith" ActiveWords gives you a Directory of choices. (Semantic self grouping.)
ActiveWords also allows you to name the same action with multiple ActiveWords. So, "news" can be associated with CNN, Foxnews, ABCnews. etc. When you triggger the ActiveWord "news" ActiveWords gives you a Directory of choices. (Semantic self grouping.)
What's to improve?
Yours Truly, Anonymous Coward
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Hi: Thanks for the virtual ink. We have looked at Launchbar, which only runs on the Mac,
Then you may want to look at approcket, which is a pretty good clone of launchbar for the PC.
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Not familiar with AppRocket, but we will check it out.
My take is that you can't name it, and naming is a very powerful tool.
Try how our stuff allows you to name computing events.
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by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07, @07:06AM EST (#8)
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Question: Why is this better than a shell? i have the "word" activeword in my shell, i have the spellcheker, even have scripting capabilities and created a google active word that i use to search google for things....
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