HotKeys
My evaluation of the Geofox One coincided with the rewriting of a
Shareware application that greatly simplifies the use of the keyboard to
swap applications instead of the "mouse". HotKeys by Henry
Hirst really complements the Geofox wonderfully, and deserves closer
examination. HotKeys has existed for a while as another of the crop
of general purpose control applications, typified by Jason Kneen's
Backlite. I must confess that I've been alternating between the two,
as one introduced a feature I particularly liked, and then the other did
something even better. Henry tells me that he decided to distinguish
HotKeys from the other such applications, and I think he has achieved
that. It still controls the backlight within specified hours, provides
somewhere to jot quick notes, and all the expected features. In addition it
is rather reminiscent of another application I've recently fallen in love
with on my Risc PC: Graham Crow's MenuBar.
HotKeys on the Series 5
Instead of the pull-down menus there are up to five screens worth
of slots for applications, which can be selected from the tabs. Those slots
can launch applications with their most recent file, or with a specific one.
It can also be set to open a range of files for a particular job (e.g.
project in Plan, Data file of contacts, Word files of
previous meeting minutes, etc.) and do much, much, more.
HotKeys obviously also works on the S5, and in fact doesn't use all
of the screen on the Geofox, but I think it's an essential productivity tool
to partly compensate for the reduction in flexibility that the lack of the
touch screen brings. You can download HotKeys from Henry's Web site.
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