Colibri

Keybreeze – Quickly launch applications

May 30, 2007

The “Start Menu” on my PC generally extends upto 3-4 columns; thanks to all the software/tools that I install/try out. [Note: Screen width is set to 1280 pixels ] On the top of this, Windows XP has a totally useless Start Menu; If I have to quickly launch an application, I spend more time searching [...]

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Launchy – Quicksilver for Windows ?

November 16, 2006

One of the features I liked in Google Desktop was the Quick search. Using this, I could quickly invoke the programs in the Start Menu, other than searching the files in my computer. Colibri was a nice alternative to GD’s Quick Search. You can read more about Colibri here. Launchy is another nice little open [...]

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Colibri – Version 0.14

August 8, 2006

Colibri is a nice little application through which you can quickly launch start menu and control panel applications of MS windows. I had covered this tool some time back. Check the old post at this link : http://venukb.com/blog/2006/07/12/colibri/ A new version of this tool is released and this version is much faster in indexing your [...]

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Colibri

July 12, 2006

One of the features I liked in Google Desktop was the Quick search. Using this, I could quickly invoke the programs in the Start Menu, other than searching the files in my computer. But there were other reasons for me not using Google Desktop in the first place. It didn’t work well in my office [...]

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