App Of The Week – Slick Run

Explained best by the programs author – Bayden

SlickRun is a free floating command line utility for Windows. SlickRun gives you almost instant access to any program or website. SlickRun allows you to create command aliases (known as MagicWords), so C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe becomes MAIL.

Enter a web URL into SlickRun and it will launch your browser and navigate to the specified address. Run multiple programs in a few keystrokes, jot a note, look up a definition… SlickRun is the most natural way to interact with your computer.

I modified it’s positioning and colour to make it look like it was embedded in the taskbar. This tiny program (496kb) has been so well designed that you can have it looking like, and doing anything you want, it’s quite simply the best time saving utility I’ve ever seen.

Here’s an example of how you can have it functioning – press a hot key, the utility jumps to the location of the mouse giving the cursor attention. When you type, the time, date, and CPU usage disappears and you can type a magic word. A magic word is a completely customisable command line function (don’t let the explanation scare you off) it’ll shave massive amounts of time off your everyday work.

In the morning I type “morning” and I get my feed reader opened, my email accounts, and my music player (foobar2000).

I can type “goto gametone wordpress” and the utility will utilise Google’s I’m feeling lucky function and send me here.

I can type”wiki charles darwin” and it will take me straight to, you guessed it, the Wikipedia page for Charles Darwin.

Get it right here.

Lewes.

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