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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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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