gHacks technology news » tool http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Unknown Device Identifier http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/10/unknown-device-identifier/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/10/unknown-device-identifier/#comments Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:12:58 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/10/unknown-device-identifier/ Did you ever try to identify devices in your device manager that have a yellow icon ? Devices with yellow icons are unknown devices that give you almost zero information about the type of the device. The freeware Unknown Device Identifier displays a list of unknown, disconnected or old devices with information about each of those devices.

Each device contains information about the manufacturer, OEM name, device type, device model and even the name of the device. It is therefor easy to identify the device and right-click the device to search for drivers for the device or contact the vendor using the program itself.

It would not be a problem however to use a normal search engine to find a driver instead of the build in search. The biggest problem that I see is that a lot of devices are shown and it could be quite complicated to find the correct one that corresponds to the yellow icon in the device manager.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/10/unknown-device-identifier/feed/ 5 Autohotkey http://www.ghacks.net/2006/03/27/autohotkey/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/03/27/autohotkey/#comments Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:21:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=366 Autohotkey is a nice little freeware application that has many purposes. Take a look at its features:]]> I´am back. I finished moving to my new apartment and can again write articles for you. Autohotkey is a nice little freeware application that has many purposes. Take a look at its features:

#Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.
#Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
#Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing “btw” can automatically produce “by the way”.
#Create custom data entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details.
#Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
#Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
#Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
#Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don’t have AutoHotkey installed.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/03/27/autohotkey/feed/ 1 Bulk Renamer http://www.ghacks.net/2006/03/06/bulk-renamer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/03/06/bulk-renamer/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:24:39 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=342 Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extremely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders.

Lets say you have a digital camera and create lots of pictures when your on holidays. Those cameras normally name the pictures DSC000001.jpg and its kinda hard to search through those pictures. It would be much easier if you could rename those files with ease so that the filename itself gives you information about the pictures. Pictures of your December 2005 trip to Colorado could be named 2005_12_colorado_001.jpg for example. Easier to recognize isn´t it ? Well, Bulk Renamer can do this for you.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/03/06/bulk-renamer/feed/ 2 Auto It Freeware http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/05/auto-it-freeware/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/05/auto-it-freeware/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:28:50 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=200 I do a lot of sign ups for example on webmaster forums and sites that require you to be registered to view the content. Its a tedious task to enter the information that are required by hand. You often have to add more information than the username and password, name and location for instance.

Auto It is able to help you fill those fields automatically, but not only that. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks. AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting.

The tool is free and small (only 115 KB), check the authors homepage at autoitscript.com to download the newest version.

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