How often do you find yourself wanting to search in Google when the active application is not your browser? If you too find that copying the text, switching to browser and searching is tedious, read on.

I use FeedReader a lot and found myself always doing Google searches of text in it a lot by manually copying word(s) and pasting them in the search box of Firefox. So I thought about a way to quickly perform Google searches by simply pressing a hot key (keyboard shortcut) with text selected in whichever windows program it is in. It’s just 4 lines of code using AutoHotKey.

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The IBM mouse that I use at my work place is hard to click. My fingers would get tired at the end of the day with all the clicking. So I requested for a small program or script that will click whenever ‘Ctrl’ key is pressed. jgpaiva over at DonationCoder wrote a 3 line .ahk file that does this.

Here are the steps:

1. Install Auto Hot Key.
2. Save the following as LeftClick.ahk:

   Ctrl::  send,{lbutton}  return

3. Double click on the new .ahk file.

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Recently we wrote a tutorial on how to install Dolphin, the community builder script on your own web host. It was for version 6.0.0002.

Patch #3 for Dolphin 6.0 has been released recently which effectively closes 75 tickets. Below you can find the instructions (both text and video) we followed to upgrade our Dolphin installation from version 6.0.0002 to version 6.0.0003.

1. Download Dolphin 6 Patch 0003 Free Version

2. Upload the contents over existing contents. An intelligent FTP client like FlashFXP will automatically take care of switching the directories and replacing the files. All you need to do is just drag everything and drop on the remote server contents.

3. Upgrade the database by going to http://<Dolphin Site>/upgrade.php.

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Search for gallery in google and Menalto’s Gallery is always the first result. Gallery is an open source web based photo album organizer. It gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community site.

Gallery is a web based software product that lets you manage your photos on your own website. You must have your own website with PHP and database support in order to install and use it. With Gallery you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums and photos can have view, edit, delete and other permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.

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Auto-raise is a AutoHotKey script that will activate programs in the windows taskbar area by simply hovering your mouse over them. It will also press the minimize windows for you when you hover on the minimize button. To use it, copy the code at the linked page, paste it in a notepad and save it as Auto-raise.ahk in any folder. Now download and install the latest AHK. To start the Auto-raise script, simply double click on the .ahk file. You should see a ‘H’ shaped icon in your system tray. By default the script doesn’t activate minimized windows. Also Start menu is activated upon mouse over.

Since we like to activate minimized windows by hovering the mouse plus since we don’t use Start menu at all, we edited the script (right click on the system tray icon and Edit This Script) and changed

hover_task_min_info = 1 ;
hover_start_button = 1 ;

to

hover_task_min_info = 0 ;
hover_start_button = 0 ;

(1 is true, 0 is false)

Make sure you reload the script after editing, saving and closing it.

Here’s a small video of the script in action:

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