gHacks technology news » wonderful icon http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:49:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Wonderful Icon Freewarehttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/19/the-wonderful-icon-freeware/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/19/the-wonderful-icon-freeware/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:02:16 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/19/the-wonderful-icon-freeware/ Oh well, the name wonderful icon is not really helping when you try to figure out what this freeware does. The main purpose is to assign new hotkeys to windows. The program offers you a great deal of predefined actions that can be assigned to an hotkey, for instance: Open Browser, Dos Box, Always on Top, Type Char xyz into window, reboot and many more. I would say there are around 100+ predefined actions and you also have the ability to create new ones very easily.

You got two options when creating a new action. The first one is two define one or two actions that should be started once you press the hotkey, the other one uses the “if the current window” state to define actions that take place if the current window is in that state. You could create shortcuts that open a program and then make it stay always on top. It is also possible to combine both options.

The Wonderful Icon adds a icon to the system tray which offers something different as well. Clicking the icon gives you the ability to logoff or reboot for instance. You can define new entries to that menu easily as well using the same technique that the shortcuts offer.

Thanks to my reader Dominic for letting me know about this tip.

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