Re: Ideas wanted

From: Woodie Morris (woodie7_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/06/03 

Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:36:01 -0500

Can users define their own terms?

How about doing certain things at certain times? IE At 1:00AM Defrag. I know
windows has a scheduler program that does this, but if someone is attracted
to your program, being able to eliminate it in favor of your program would
be a plus. 

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"pragmatist" <compendiary@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Recently I've been developing a custom command line parser. I can
> access it at any time by pressing ctrl + windows-button and (for
> example) type:
>
> - "define crepuscular", it will look up the world crepuscular for me.
> - "comp.programming", it brings up google-groups searchable archive of
> that newsgroup.
> - "Activate Project1", it will activate my Project1 window if it's
> open, even if the title of the window is actually "Blah blah Project1
> etc etc".
> - "\\SomeComputer" or "x:\Somepath", it brings up the path in explorer
> - A URL, it loads the web page for me in my favourite browser.
> - "google rubber chicken", it will do a google search for "rubber
> chicken". ("google groups something something" will do the search on
> google groups, it also works for google images and news.)
>
> It's all very simple to make and useful to have, but I'm wondering if
> anyone has built something similar and can offer me some ideas of
> other cool things to do with my little project.
>
> Incidentally, the code is on my web site as a vb project (I know, I
> know, I probably should have used python). It won't be much use to you
> if you don't customise it to your own computer and programs, but it's
> pretty easy to do so.
>
> http:\\geocities.com\christhomsonspage\command.zip
>
> Feel free to steal, modify, redistribute, profit from, take credit
> for, swear at, print out and burn; or otherwise interfere with this
> code, or whatever other code that may have been written by me or
> anyone else throughout history.

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