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Buzz shared an ActiveWords script for searching Amazon.com in his post Searching in Context. Although I’m in New Zealand I often buy from Amazon U.K. rather than Amazon.com. The crazy English comedies I like, especially one about a local shop, don’t make it to the
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An awesome use for ActiveWords is creating AutoCAD Fields within text objects. AutoCAD Fields are "live text" which show properties like date, filename etc but are actually entered as text strings. E.G.: If you want AutoCAD to show the filename for the current file. You launch the
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Buzz Bruggeman recently demo’d ActiveWords and the new ActiveWords Inkpad at DemoFall 2005. This short post demo podcast will take about 18 minutes of your time but it’s worth the investment. Buzz comes up with a few gems on client/staff engagement and marketing that are applicable to
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ActiveWords excels at increasing productivity by using short keycodes to perform a series of actions. Text substitution, web browsing, application launch, folder/file access, outlook contact access, email checking, google searching and more can all be achieved with a few keystrokes. Tablet PC’s can now benefit from this thanks
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Buzz posted a cool script which allows rapid searching of Wikipedia. It uses ActiveWords to enter the search term into the Wikipedia search engine for immediate results. buzznovation: ActiveWords and Wikipedia.... The fastest way to find out what a smoot is….
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It may appear that this “CAD Blog” has been taken over by an ActiveWords meme. The articles started as one short post. Over time the draft grew to be too large for a single post so I decided to break it up. I was going to release them over a
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Continued from ActiveWords Part 4 So far ActiveWords has saved me about 3.7 hours work in 78 days. How do I know? ActiveWords keeps a log of it’s use and gives a productivity report. Maybe 3.7 hours doesn’t sound a huge amount but this is while
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Continued from ActiveWords Part 3 ActiveWords watches your actions and prompts you to create an active word for repetitive tasks. It means your productivity increases as your wordbase grows. Using ActiveWords soon becomes so effortless that you really miss not having it available. It’s a good thing that the
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Continued from ActiveWords – Part Two I didn’t take up Buzz’s offer of a personal tour mainly because I’ve been too slack to get set up for Skype. It’s on the urgent to-do list right after procrastination. Anyway it gave me the chance to experience same introduction
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Continued from ActiveWords - Part 1 Well, I downloaded and installed the trial version of ActiveWords and started to use it. It runs for 60 days in trial mode to give you a good chance to see if it works for you. So what does it do? Imagine tapping a
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Hobie (the Gnomedex 5 star from MindManager) blogged about some software called ActiveWords. He said it’s the best thing since MindManager as it can run applications, navigate the web, search and more just by typing keywords. I think MindManager is the best thing since… well it’s just the