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Started by John Sheehan · 10 months ago

I love using the keyboard to get around my computer. I live and die with the Windows-X shortcuts, still remember the old cut and paste commands (Shift/Ctrl-Insert) and can generally get anywhere in Windows without taking my hands off the keyboard. To me, all good software has a useful set ... Continue reading »

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  • Buzz Bruggeman

    2 years ago

    Try our product and see what you think. Our take is that we are more intuitive and more powerful by significant margin.

    Best,

    Buzz

    Burton L. Bruggeman
    ActiveWords, Inc./Seattle
    buzz@activewords.com
    206.388.4747
    206.388.4746 eFax

    www.activewords.com
    www.activewords.com/forum
    http://buzzmodo.typepad.com/buzznovation/
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  • John

    2 years ago

    I'll give it a look. I'm not necessarily interested in a more powerful utility, just something with the elegance of Enso with some slight tweaks. But I'll try out ActiveWords and see if it fits my needs.
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  • John

    2 years ago

    I watched the demo videos and I'm not impressed with ActiveWords at all. Buzz, if you honestly think your programs have the same audience, you're sorely mistaken. Enso is elegant and straightforward. ActiveWords is straightforward and maybe more powerful, but in my opinion, unnecessarily so. Enso : Mac :: ActiveWords : PC is the best way I can describe it.
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  • Ryan

    1 year ago

    John, I believe that you can turn the sticky keys on in a configuration file to have it stay that way. I may be wrong, but look into it.

    As a developer with a design background, I find Enso to be invaluable. I downloaded the free trial, and when it ran out, I lasted only one day before getting so fed up with it no longer being available before buying it.

    Take a bit of time to remove some of the automatically assigned commands. Possibly even remove some that are named in too verbose a manner such as Microsoft Office Word 2003, and re-learn them as a shorter command such as Word. This helps Enso behave more predictably when auto-completing command names. (I wish control panel and system actions could be unlearned)
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  • John

    1 year ago

    Hi Ryan...I wrote this post before they enabled sticky keys. I tried using it with sticky keys too and it still didn't work for me (see http://john-sheehan.com/blog/index.php/enso-rev...). Not saying its a bad product, just not for me.
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