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Author Topic: Wirekeys on giveaway of the day  (Read 6379 times)

iphigenie

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Wirekeys on giveaway of the day
« on: May 18, 2007, 03:53 AM »
I am a registered user of wirekeys. I use it for some hotkey automation, a minimalistic clipboard history, clipboard clean up and sorting, right click menu customiser, process killer...

It is another one of those automation / macro / text tool which comes with a lot of features. It is a bit quirky to set up (to me - I dont use 10% of its features cause I haven't found them yet...) but is very versatile and powerful and certainly worth a try and download.

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Re: Wirekeys on giveaway of the day
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2007, 04:31 PM »
It is a bit quirky to set up (to me - I dont use 10% of its features cause I haven't found them yet...) ...

I had it for free - thank you, WiredPlane! - but I am glad I didn't pay for it. It will take me quite some time to figure out how to use this little app in a more effecient way than I so far have managed. I was forced to start out with disabling almost every hotkey, as some of them collided with other apps with a lot of hotkeys, so it is kind of a little nightmare to understand which hotkeys to use or not, and to understand what program is causing what.

However, I like two of the plugins a lot: 'Taskbar extender' and 'Useless Start Button'.
Actually these two plugins are all I use for now; so far I don't use Wirekeys itself at all..

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« Last Edit: May 31, 2007, 04:40 PM by Curt »

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WireKeys 3.6.7 on Giveaway of the Day [July 26, 2008]
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2008, 06:38 AM »
looks similar to Autohotkey but may interest some of the DC'ers here.

http://www.giveawayo...ay.com/wirekeys-367/

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Re: Wirekeys on giveaway of the day
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2008, 11:19 AM »
I am still using only a fraction of WireKeys' features, but I dare to recommend it out loud: I am VERY satisfied with my WireKeys, and I didn't stop to think before updating via today's giveaway.  :up:

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Re: Wirekeys on giveaway of the day
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2008, 12:13 PM »
Looks really interesting - the interface, however, looks madly over complicated!

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Re: Wirekeys on giveaway of the day
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2008, 10:00 PM »
wow, this app is certainly packed with features. just check out the menu that appears when i right-click on a window's close button. but 1st must find the way to disable the default hotkeys, one of which takes over Farr's 'Pause' key.

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Re: Wirekeys on giveaway of the day
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2008, 07:59 AM »
- yes, I disabled 99% of the hotkeys!

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Re: Wirekeys on giveaway of the day
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2008, 08:34 AM »
luckily, there is an option called "extended hotkey processing" which i duly turned off to restore the hotkey to Farr, even though WireKeys protested a bit. in hindsight, maybe the developer should have allowed more room to manoeuvre since users of these type of programs would be savvy enough to assign a few hotkeys already in their system.

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