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Friday July 25, 2008

FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

I use Outlook tasks quite a lot, for serious tasks, to-do lists, but also quick reminders. Today I stumbled across "QuickOutlookTask", a small command-line utility that allows you to quickly add an Outlook task. You simply type something like "do new outlook task" (command line, or Windows Run) and this creates a new Outlook task with subject "new outlook task". Outlook needn't even be running. See http://www.megalab.it/articoli.php?id=1288.

Well, a couple of days ago I discovered FARR and quickly fell in love with it (kudos, mouser Thmbsup) and I wanted to have this through FARR. So I wrapped this functionality in a FARR alias, and this is my attempt to pass it on to you.

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posted by jpijper donate to jpijper - July 25, 2008, 01:08:00 PM
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Wednesday July 23, 2008

Table Data Search Plugin

Table Data Search Plugin

This plugin can search and display tabular data files of varying formats (csv files or any text files whose columns can be parsed using a regular expression).

It can be be used to display and search for data in spreadsheets, dictionaries, etc.  Only rows matching the search terms will be displayed so it's a great way to look up data.



Each data file has its own settings that specify:
  • Column Titles
  • Pattern for parsing column data
  • Max number of results to display
  • Option whether to search after every character typed
  • Option for case sensitivity

Other features:
  • Columns can be sorted
  • Supports html in column data
  • Incudes update support and two sample data files.
  • You can configure as many data files as you want, and easily switch between them (ctrl+tab or just click the filename).
  • The settings for each file are saved in to a file with the same name as the data file but with a .json extension, so you can easily share your data files+settings with others.

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posted by czechboy donate to czechboy - July 23, 2008, 05:23:00 AM
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Tuesday July 22, 2008

Google Calculator


posted by czechboy donate to czechboy - July 22, 2008, 06:34:00 PM
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GooglePlus - View Google search results in FARR as you type

GooglePlus
This plugin allows you to choose from five different Google search types including Web, Local, Video, Images, and Books and will display search results in real time based on your search criteria. You can also choose to display extended information specific to each search type for each result.

Usage
gp   - This will present you with the 5 different search types (Web, Local, Video, Images, Books) as shown above. Select one of the search types by typing in its name to filter the search or using the arrow keys to select and then press tab to activate that search. Tip: Typing "gp" followed by two spaces will recall the last search you executed since launching FARR.

gpw - Alias for web search. The same as typing gp +web
gpl   - Alias for local search. The same as typing gp +local
gpv  - Alias for video search. The same as typing gp +video
gpi   - Alias for image search. The same as typing gp +images
gpb  - Alias for book search. The same as typing gp +book
gph  - Alias for GooglePlus search history. This will show you a list of all your previous searches since launching FARR.

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posted by s.newave donate to s.newave - July 22, 2008, 03:56:00 AM
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Thursday July 17, 2008

Alias: Google Maps Directions

recently i find myself using this feature quite frequently so made an alias. just copy the code & paste into Farr's "Aliases/Groups" section.

Code:
1000>>>Google Maps Directions>->Directions from $$1 to $$2 | http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=$$1&daddr=$$2 /ICON=icons\google.ico>+>^gm ([^\s]*) ([^\s]*)

note: i use whitespace to separate the query words, so do not separate terms that include region, country, etc. e.g Wigan,UK will work but Wigan, UK won't.

posted by lanux128 donate to lanux128 - July 17, 2008, 02:35:00 AM
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Friday July 11, 2008

English-Vietnamese Translator plugin for FARR using tratu.baamboo.com

Quote
Nxqd3051990:
I know a lot about translator plugins. I really want one like defnir , but with Vie-English translator smiley Can you guys make me one :p
Thanks so much ^^
http://www.tratu.baamboo.com/ << This site :p ( I have no idea about coding yet

Here you go.. It is very simple so if it does not fit your needs (I do not speak Vietnamese) just open fscript.js and modify it. To make it even easier for you, you can use firebug for firefox Wink

BTW: invoke by "bt" => can be changed in fscript.js as well

Download:
http://czb.dcmembers.com/...baamboo/tratu_baamboo.zip

posted by czechboy donate to czechboy - July 11, 2008, 08:09:00 AM
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Tuesday July 01, 2008

FARR MostRecentlyUsed

Description
The FARR MostRecentlyUsed plugin shows the contents of the 'My Recent Documents' folder or a list of most recently used files of applications storing their most recently used files in the registry.

Download
You can get it from here: http://farrmru.origo.ethz.ch/download

Usage
Typing mru in FARR will give you a list of your most recently used files.

Use the following modifier keywords to change the search:
+byname : Force sorting by name
+bydate : Force sorting by date last modified
+.[ext] : Filter results by file extension [ext]. More than one can be used, e.g. +.h +.cpp

To show a list of most recently used files for selected applications, use the following modifers:
+msvc8 : Show most recently used MS Visual Studio 2005 files
+msvc9 : Show most recently used MS Visual Studio 2008 files
+office : Show most recently used Microsoft Office 2007 files
+wmp : Show most recently used Windows Media Player files
+foxit : Show most recently used Foxit Reader files
(You configure your own in the config file)

This is a MUST HAVE plugin.. Extremely useful.

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posted by phitsc donate to phitsc - July 01, 2008, 09:25:00 AM
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Monday June 23, 2008

google dollar exchange rate plugin

While the donationcoder server was down I tried to put together a plugin based on the javascript SDK that takes a number as an input and queries google what that amount of dollars exchanges to in swedish kronor. In the finished plugin that swedish kronor part should of course be customizable to whatever currency the user prefers.

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posted by Nod5 donate to Nod5 - June 23, 2008, 02:07:00 PM
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Friday June 20, 2008

New plugin: FARR MultiMonitor

Description
The FARR MultiMonitor plugin extends FARR to work better with multiple monitors. FARR's main window currently always shows up on the monitor you moved it to. With the FARR MultiMonitor plugin enabled, FARR's main window will show up on the monitor that contains the currently active window (usually the window of the application you're working in, and also where you're currently looking at).

Additionally, the FARR MultiMonitor plugin has the option to center FARR's main window on the screen.

Warning
This plugin is experimental. To provide its functionality, it uses ways other than the regular FARR plugin API. What this means is that there's no guarantee this plugin will work with future versions of FARR. It does seem to work now though. Note that I did not do much testing. It's working fine on my Windows XP computer with two monitors attached. I did not test it with more than two monitors, nor with only one monitor.

Download
You can get it from here: http://farrmultimonitor.origo.ethz.ch/download

Options
Note that the plugin offers a couple of options which can be set in the FARR advanced plugin options dialog. There's a brief description of these options in the readme file. Also note that the center option is off by default (because it could be quite annoying without the threshold level set to something sensible).

posted by phitsc donate to phitsc - June 20, 2008, 05:45:00 AM
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Saturday June 14, 2008

GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)

As of June 13, 2008 the Latest Alpha of FARR Included GTDTiddlyWikiPlus Alias Pack, which supports GTDTiddlyWiki Plus and the original TiddlyWiki.

Trigger the alias by typing: gwp
Trigger the alias by typing: tiwi

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posted by mouser donate to mouser - June 14, 2008, 01:55:00 AM
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Monday June 09, 2008

New Script FARR Plugin: Clock

Overview:
This plugin displays the current date/time in a variety of formats.

Info:
http://gogogadgetscott.in.../computers/software/farr/

List of commands:
cl : list current date/time

Download:
http://gogogadgetscott.in...ware/farr/clock/Clock.zip

Special thanks goes to ecaradec for Fscript.
http://www.donationcoder....b/index.php?topic=12232.0

posted by gogogadgetscott donate to gogogadgetscott - June 09, 2008, 10:03:00 AM
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New C# FARR Plugin: FARRGoogleCalendar

Description

This plugin serves in two modes:

1) See your upcoming events up and directly go to them. Defauly keyword: gcal
2) Use the QuickAdd feature of Google Calendar to quickly add events. Before actually creating an event, you are given a preview of the date. Defauly keyword: gcal add

Thanks to czechboy for the inspiration smiley

Download

http://vitalyb.dcmembers....ar/FARRGoogleCalendar.zip

Known issues

  • The user/password is stored in the options file in plain text.
  • You can't add external calendars

posted by vitalyb donate to vitalyb - June 09, 2008, 06:46:00 AM
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Thursday May 29, 2008

Alias sharing - UK Alias Pack

Attached are a set of aliases for users in the UK. I started this set to add UK sites to FARR's core aliases.

For example this set adds maps.google.co.uk to the maps Search alias. This ensures a search for say Reading returns Reading, Berkshire rather than Reading, PA.

As well as additions to the FARR's core aliases I have added a couple of other sets (newspapers and weather) for UK sites.

Just unzip the file and put the UK direction under AliasGroups\MyCustom

* uk.zip (19.57 KB - downloaded 85 times.)

posted by macs donate to macs - May 29, 2008, 11:18:00 AM
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Sunday May 25, 2008

Character Table


posted by czechboy donate to czechboy - May 25, 2008, 03:28:00 AM
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Monday May 05, 2008

Console Plugin: Sheel a Command and Display Output in Farr's memo

A user asks:

I have been working with a command-line program for which i've created an alias to input different parameters but i would like to capture the output as well and show it in Farr's memo. is it possible within the current alias setup?

    Click here to read about the Console plugin by czechboy that will do this..

posted by lanux128 donate to lanux128 - May 05, 2008, 10:14:00 PM
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Friday May 02, 2008

Timer

I have writen a plugin which can be used as countdown timer, todo, notes etc...

download
http://czb.dcmembers.com/Plugins/Timer/Timer.zip

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posted by czechboy donate to czechboy - May 02, 2008, 12:06:00 PM
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Thursday April 24, 2008

Feeling Lucky Alias

It allows you to type !youtube batman to quickly launch a I feel Lucky google.co.uk search for "youtube batman", it's very quick.
blogimage
Compared to the default search:
blogimage

Code:
1000>>>Feeling Lucky>->Google - $$1 | http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=$$1&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky /ICON=icons\google.ico>+>^!(.*)>/>24762

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Tuesday April 22, 2008

Dicts Thesaurus

Hi, because I write my bachalor thesis in English I frequently need English synonyms. Therefore I have created a very simple plug-in for my purposes. So someone of you might like it as well.
Info:
http://czb.dcmembers.com/Dicts_Thesaurus.html
Download:
http://czb.dcmembers.com/...aurus/Dicts_Thesaurus.zip

posted by czechboy donate to czechboy - April 22, 2008, 04:53:00 PM
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Sunday April 20, 2008

Console Output to Farr's memo mode

http://czb.dcmembers.com/...ugins/Console/Console.zip

Just tell me if it needs some modifications

edit: type something like "cn cd C:\ && dir &&"

posted by czechboy donate to czechboy - April 20, 2008, 09:15:00 AM
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TodoTXT


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Monday February 25, 2008

Programing mouse buttons for FARR?

I am trying to program a mouse center center button (wheel) to open FARR. Can you tell me the instruction? pointing to .exe starts a new instance. in the keystroke mode, it only accepts modifier (alt, cntrl, etc) & a standard key.

posted by DocSavage donate to DocSavage - February 25, 2008, 11:08:00 PM
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Friday February 22, 2008

Ninjawords


Alternative dictionary lookup plugin.

posted by czechboy donate to czechboy - February 22, 2008, 08:45:00 AM
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Sunday February 10, 2008

Google Calendar Quick Add

Here you go. It is pre alpha and not tested much smiley

write: gc "lunch at 2pm"

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posted by czechboy donate to czechboy - February 10, 2008, 03:14:00 PM
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Saturday February 02, 2008

Google Translation Plugin

Google translation plugin which can translate to and from many languages.

Use like: gt en fr "hello there my friend!"

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posted by mouser donate to mouser - February 02, 2008, 07:44:00 AM
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Saturday December 29, 2007

New C# FARR Plugin: FARRGoogleSuggest

Hi,

I have made a Google Suggest plugin. It query's Google just like the Google Toolbar and returns suggestions and checks your spelling.

Type gs and your query.

Sincerely,
Jens Peter Grosen

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posted by jpgrosen donate to jpgrosen - December 29, 2007, 02:39:00 AM
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Friday December 28, 2007

New C# FARR Plugin: FARREnviormentVariables

This plugin lets you easily access your environment variables. For example, Firefox keeps all its settings in your application data folder (%appdata%). In explorer you could simply write %appdata% to access it, however, in FARR it isn't possible. Until now.

Install the plugin and press % to see the list of your environment variables, select one to automatically expand it on the search path or simply continue writing. Once you add the \ it would automatically expand. E.g, writing %appdata%\ would automatically become C:\Documents and Settings\Vitaly\Application Data\.

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posted by vitalyb donate to vitalyb - December 28, 2007, 07:43:00 PM
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New C# FARR Plugin: FARRTunes - iTunes control plugin

Hey all! For all you music listeners and iTunes users.

Download link (please unpack it to your "FARR\Plugins\FARRTunes\" directory):
http://vitalyb.dcmembers....m/FARRTunes/FARRTunes.zip

Since it is quite a complex plug-in bugs are very expected. Please post on the thread if you have any trouble.
I'll be also glad to hear of your general experience with the plug-in.

Version History
  • 1.00 Initial release

Features
  • See the current song info
  • Play/Pause/Next/Previous
  • Search a playlist and start the one you want
  • Search for any song and play it
  • See the current playing song lyrics
  • Rate the current playing song

This has to be one of the most extensive plugins developed for FARR, and it makes use of a ton of different techniques.  The author (vitalyb) also made his plugin SDK available which let's people write plugins in C# (or any .net language).  Really great.

FARR (Find and Run Robot) v2 download for those who don't have it already: here.

    See screenshots and read more..

posted by vitalyb donate to vitalyb - December 28, 2007, 12:24:00 PM
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Monday December 24, 2007

GetIt - Install programs as easily as you can uninstall them



Website: http://puchisoft.com/GetIt/

I told you guys I was working on something fun you might enjoy.

See the website for details, but basically GetIt is a simple interface to a variety of Windows-based application-getters like Win-Get and AppSnap.

Note that this is not a plugin. It is useful to lots of people, not just FARR users (although I made it with you guys in mind). What you see above is an alias (perhaps the first program to install an alias into your Installed Aliases folder).

posted by Code6226 donate to Code6226 - December 24, 2007, 01:15:00 AM
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Friday December 21, 2007

FARR Plugin : FScript allow to write plugins in javascript and a delicious sample

FScript allow to write a plugin for FARR in javascript.

I made a delicious plugin for demonstration : decompress delicious.rar to farr/plugins then type dlc/any_tag in farr to try it.

The principle of fscript.dll is the following :
Put the dll in a folder next to a file named fscript.js. FARR will call you on onSearchBegin and on onRegexSearchMatch. You can call FARR.emitResult to publish results. This is mouser style documented... just get the source

I hope to see a lot of little baby script plugins.

FScript is based on the Windows Script Control Host which you may need to download if it is not installed :
http://www.microsoft.com/...4e7e844d81&DisplayLang=en

Emmanuel