As far as on the screen keyboards go, you either love them or hate them. Hotkeys is a little different than the others you might see out there. It takes the idea of Windows shortcut keys and gives it a kick in the pants.
So how hard is this program to work? Just hold the Windows key for three seconds and up pops a keyboard with icons on the keys that are configured. That isn’t hard at all, is it? Here is what the developer of Hotkeys has to say about the program:
Qliner hotkeys is a free and Open Source keyboard productivity environment. It is the first product of its kind that is usable by computer geeks and non-geeks alike.
Hotkeys builds on the concept of Windows shortcut keys but takes this concept to a whole new level. Do you think key combinations are hard to remember? Just hold the Windows key for three seconds and up pops an onscreen keyboard with icons on the keys that are configured. This you can use not only to remind you of hotkey combinations, but also for drag and drop configuration.
Some of the other features include: smart application launching, smart application instance switching, drag and drop configuration using an onscreen keyboard, support for 100+ international keyboards (making it a handy tool for international keyboard users), support for Dvorak keyboards, volume control add-in, clock add-in, optional mapping caps lock key to Windows key (handy if your keyboard does not have a Windows key or if you just hate the default behavior of caps lock).
If you have tried keyboard shortcuts before and they just didn’t do it for you, I beg of you to give this program a shot. It is this type of functionality that should be built into the operating system.
[688K] [Win98/ME/NT/2k/XP] [FREE]
[tags]windows,freeware,hotkeys,keyboards,smart application switching[/tags]