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MetaProducts TrayIcon Pro 1.7.219
WhiteLion:
<a href="http://software.xfx.net/utilities/kl/index.htm" class="postlink" target="_blank">KeyLaunch's</a> developer wrote me a few days ago. He said that he has the 3.0 version working already! He will be releasing a Beta of it in the very close future.
He sent me some screenshots of it, which I promised not to share, but
I will tell you that it has an entirely new & trim interface with much improved searching options which will greatly enhance it's speed . Every suggestion I had given to him for KeyLaunch 3.0 he has implemented in it & then some with this new version. I still can't get over that as I type this. I pretty much pestered the poor guy with my ideas after he actually listened to one of them. :-[
I even went has far as telling him about this awesome forum and a bit of the ideals and concepts that it's foundation is based upon, inorder to invite him here. He thinks this place sounds pretty great and also that the monthly draw here is very...interesting.
Alexander,
I regret that I wasn't in full favor of TrayIcon Pro. I love all of the other <a href="http://www.metaproducts.com/" class="postlink" target="_blank">MetaProducts</a> software which I have tried in the past. I know that TrayIcon Pro can be very useful for many, but it's solution just didn't work for me. I'm just so used to having immediate access to my desktop icons & to their positioning that I quickly find myself losing patience while I am using any alternative program solution that will allow me to access my DeskTop shortcuts any other way. Out all of the programs, I have now tried, that use menus and/or sub-menus to access shortcuts, none I liked. So please don't feel that I think your product is inferior because I don't. Far from it. I actually like TrayIcon Pro the best out of the ones which offers a menu access solution.
I thank you Alexander for just being here and listening to my words.
I also thank MetaProducts for TrayIcon Pro and especially for that warm mushy feeling I got inside when I learned that sometimes even big companies do actually care about the little guy and what he has to say. :-*
Vixay,
Thanks, I'm going to check out <a href="http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/" class="postlink" target="_blank">SlickRun</a>. Even though I'm a heavy duty mouse user it sounds pretty interesting.
SlickRun is a free floating command line utility for Windows. SlickRun gives you almost instant access to any program or website. SlickRun allows you to create command aliases (known as MagicWords), so C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe becomes MAIL.
Enter a web URL into SlickRun and it will launch your browser and navigate to the specified address. Run multiple programs in a few keystrokes, jot a note, look up a definition... SlickRun is the most natural way to interact with your computer.
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Darwin,
That's one fast fix! I'm glad for you.
I did try TrueLaunchBar. When I tried though I basically just installed it and I thought it looked really neat. I was busy working on something else at the time so I left it running with an intention to play with it later. I grew tired and just plume lost my energy to. Anyways, I never did get a round tuit..lol. I just became re-enamored with <a href="http://www.sillysot.com/" class="postlink" target="_blank">Iconiod</a> instead. Which I am now allowing to run at every boot & seems to be the best solution for me. It runs under 2megs of memory at all times with no memory spikes or any hesitation when it makes my invisible shortcuts re-appear. It only has one problem that occurs when it comes to re-correcting lost icon positions, sometimes it can't. I think that's because I habitually dump my temp files. It appears that's where Iconiod stores the positioning info in a file that is always 1kb in size. I have tried backing up the file but it doesn't work. There's no options to change it's backup folder path nor am I sure if it's even the correct file. Ah well, I'm still very very happy with it.
Maybe I should...drop it's author a line
Not! J/King
Hugz to all,
WL
Darwin:
I'm waiting for Keylaunch 3 to be released - I've been checking the site regularly so that I can "swoop" in and download a trial when it is released into the wild. Anyway,... ObjectDock is still installed on my system but hasn't been run since I posted the above. I'm going to leave it in place for now on the off-chance that I am motivated in the future to play with it, but it's not really looking too likely at this point. Actually, I am fighting the urge to get rid of it because I don't like unused apps on my system.
Whitelion, I'm glad you've found a solution that works for you! I've used iconoid in the past and liked it. I used it to save my desktop layout - I used to use a multi-media projector to give Powerpoint presentations and always had to change the resolution on my notebook from 1024*768 to 800*600 and back again. This always messed up the arrangement of icons on my desktop. I only have 3 icons on my desktop now, and don't use a multi-media projector at the moment, so don't have anything installed to handle that.
WhiteLion:
That's a bummer hear about your feelings on ObjectDock, but I agree with 'em. It is awesome at first but that feeling seems to fade quickly with it here too. That happened to me with all of the Docks eventually.
Y'Z's Dock kept me happily playing with it the longest out of 'em all. ;)
I have some more news for you on KeyLaunch 3. Xavier Flix just wrote me about a 1/2 hour ago. He sent me a very early early nearly pre-Alpha version to test tonight! WaHoo! It works! Many of the options are not available yet, but it can search & launch very fast on my machine now! The very first version of KeyLaunch that I had was so fast back in 2002 that it seemed to be magic. Now I think it has taken a giant leap in re-capturing that magic it once had on those smaller HD's of the past, without clunking your system down with any file indexing. :D
I can't share my alpha copy with you...yet. I wish I could.
I can now do the next best though. Xavier agreed to let me give you guys here a "sneak peak" of it. He is happy with how the interface looks now...& so am I. There may be a few more adjustments to the interface before KL3 is released but they should be only minor ones.
MetaProducts TrayIcon Pro 1.7.219
MetaProducts TrayIcon Pro 1.7.219
MetaProducts TrayIcon Pro 1.7.219
MetaProducts TrayIcon Pro 1.7.219
It's going to retain all the features and keyboard friendliness that it currently has now and also have added new features to make it even more user friendly.
I can barely wait for the time to come for when you guys can test it.
I'm sure that Xavier will let you be one of the first. ;)
WhiteLion:
Oops! I nearly forgot!
Vixay,
I tested out SlickRun. I thought it is really neat. Then I started to think...that it is just a glorified keyboard shortcut app with an added pain of having to find a little box to type into.
I played with it some more and I ended up concluding that it is both of the above. :D
It is more than a glorified short-cut handler because it allows one to make memorable keyboard combinations by tagging the key combos to a name of your own chosing.
That is a very nifty for me. It also makes it truly the first keyboard shortcut handler which I actually could handle trying to use everyday.
I give it :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
Thanks for telling me about it.
Darwin:
Wow. I like what I see in the screen caps of KeyLaunch 3 - looks great! Thanks for posting them.
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