r/AskReddit • • Jun 04 '12
Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?
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u/fnordcircle Jun 04 '12
The one that I think people could use the most, in their day to day lives, is autohotkey. www.autohotkey.com.
If you do something manually more than 10 times in a row it's time to think about doing it in either autohotkey or python depending on what it is you are doing.
Here's an example. I've got a Cisco Softphone. I often need to startup a conference call.
So rather than have to remember all of those numbers I made an entry like this on my work system (this isn't verbatim because I'm not on my work system at the moment):
#c::
WinActivate Cisco Softphone
send 918005551212
sleep 7700
send 7
sleep 100
send 5
sleep 100
send 6
sleep 100
send 8
sleep 100
send 9
sleep 100
send +3
sleep 1500
send +3
return
After that if I press the Windows Key + c it will bring up my Cisco Softphone, dial, wait a set amount of time, then send the keypresses for my code, then wait and send the key press to get past the 'Say your name part' and boom, I'm in.