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The NANY 2023 event is now closed.

If you are a coder, any new program (or addon) that you have released in the previous year, which is freeware/donationware for home users is eligible.

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It's obvious that the programmers at the Donation Coder site work best under deadline, as they've once again turned out a surprising number of useful, quirky or specialized Windows programs in the space of one month, available free for download.

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January 2008 25

SelectoSurf - Open plaintext URLs flexibly from any program

;------------------------------------------------------------------
; Select plaintext in any program and hit the hotkey (ctrl+space)
; If the text looks like a url or website name (like donationcoder.com), it will be opened.
; otherwise a google search will be conducted with the phrase.
; urls will be cleaned of unnesc. punctuation and split-lines will be merged.
;
; Compiled exe and .ahk source script included.
;------------------------------------------------------------------

There are a lot of scripts that do this kind of thing, but i still thought it would be nice to have another that people could customize.

Just select a url or something that looks like a url in any program and hit hotkey to open proper web page in browser.
Fixes urls that are malformed (missing prefixes, extra surrounding characters, etc.)
If you select a non-url phrase a web search is conducted
Compiled exe included that uses default browser and hotkey Ctrl+Space, but autohotkey source is provided you can customize
Cleans up split-line urls, perfect for email urls

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