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Adobe’s Acrobat Reader does not support my Intellimouse back/forward navigation buttons like Internet Explorer and Firefox do. Paste this little hotkey snippet into your autohotkey startup to enable this functionality.
#IfWinActive , ahk_class AcrobatSDIWindow
XButton1::Send !{LEFT}
XButton2::Send !{RIGHT}
#IfWinActive
I sometimes like to "micro-plan" my day’s events using Microsoft Outlook, to plan for a series of consecutive 10 or 15 minute tasks. To switch to this view requires a convoluted series of mouse clicks, and then an equally time consuming task to revert to the usual time resolution.
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I created an Autohotkey script that allows you to use the control-minus and control-equals (remember it’s below the plus key,) to instantly zoom in and out of your Outlook calendar. I would prefer to use the standard control-mouse wheel zoom, but for unexplained reasons, the script became unreliable in that configuration.
Download the executable, or see the source:
I frequently send one-line emails and/or text messages to my wife throughout the day. I configured Launchy so all I have to type is alt-space, cherylemail, tab, and the contents of the short email.
1. Download and install Blat (a command-line mail client.)
2. Add a new Launchy runner command (see image below.) In the Program field, enter the path to the Blat executable.
3. Use something like this in the arguments field: (Don’t miss the leading hyphen.)
- -to “yourfriend@domain.com” -f myemail@mydomain.com -subject “Quick Note” -body “$$”
With my recent move to a paperless office, I decided I to start doing backups more consistently and to find an online solution for this. Previously, I had been using an IDE to USB cable
I found out about Mozy, an online backup service that comes with great software and allows you up to 2GB of free online backups. It has been working great for me. I split off my really big files into a separate folder, and keep those backed up locally in the fire safe, but 99% of my scanned files are now backed up online automatically at no cost.
Many times I have wanted to move a tab into a new window in IE7, but have been frustrated that the tab remains in the old tab group when you press control-N. Install this Autohotkey executable in your Windows startup folder to make IE7 behave sensibly, so when you press control-N it detaches the currently open tab to a new window.
Alternately, you can do this manually, by pressing “control down, n, w, control up,” or add the below Autohotkey code to your startup script to change the behavior of control-N so that it does not duplicate the current tab, but relocates it. Maybe someday Microsoft will fix this undesirable behavior. Firefox users, look here.
