ActiveWords, Camtasia Studio and Windows 7

I recently got a new PC and this video from Buzz (not the Google one) shows why ActiveWords was my first install after Windows 7 was running. He made the demo with Camtasia Studio (another favourite app of mine).

To give an idea how ActiveWords changes your computing (and why I can’t stand using a PC without it) the title for this post was created by entering “awf, camf and w7f”, letting ActiveWords do the rest. In a bit over a month it has saved close to an hour of typing and that’s just on my home PC.

Caught out by a real inkPad

ActiveWords runs fine on Windows 7 64 but I inadvertently installed it’s inkpad component. The ActiveWords inkpad enables everything you see Buzz do in the demo to be done with a pen. Scribble CNN and the browser will open, then navigate to their site. Try that on your iPad…

It wouldn’t be a problem on a Tablet PC but my old Dell monitor doesn’t support direct input! The inkpad agent was easily disabled until my new touch enabled widescreen monitor arrives (yeah right!)

1. Exit ActiveWords (Inkpad will also close).
2. Open AgentManager (C:\Program Files\ActiveWords\AgentManager.exe).
3. Move "AWInkPad" to the "Unregistered" column
4. Re-start ActiveWords

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