Launchy power tip

On a previous blog entry I mentioned Launchy, a free Windows utility to launch applications using just the keyboard. It's a highly recommended productivity booster!

Since then, I've been using Launchy and I've even done some tweaking...

- You can launch command line applications by typing: cmd [TAB] command arg1 arg2 ...
- You can also launch web sites by typing: google [TAB] query

These features are pre-configured in the Options, Plugins menu:


You can create additional entries, like the following for Google I'm Feeling Lucky search:

[Name, URL, Query]
GLucky, http://www.google.com, search?q=%s&btnI

Or entries to quickly search on-line programming documentations:

[Name, URL, Query]
PHP, http://www.google.com, search?q=php.net+5+%s&btnI
Javadoc, http://www.google.com, search?q=site:java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api+%s&btnI

Very handy, huh? ;-)