Go to the Automation tab.
Click the Wand icon at the top-left of the tab.
Select Typing automation > Replace typed text.
Enter the full new text that you wish to have auto-typed.
Click OK.
Enter the short old trigger text that will type the full text.
Click OK.
Enter a name for this new action for the Action List.
Click OK.
Done! Now whenever you type the short trigger text, it will be auto-replaced with the longer text for you.
Your keyboard becomes better with AlomWare Toolbox. Do you often press the Enter key too soon after typing, and therefore submit something with typos? You can now make your keyboard wait half a second before Enter can be pressed, saving embarrassment. You can also have a Caps Lock status indicator for laptops without one, hear mechanical typewriter sounds as you type (perfect for feedback), and have closing brackets auto-typed when you type the opening bracket. Sick of Num Lock turning off by mistake? Lock it on so you always type numbers on the keypad instead of accidentally moving the cursor.
Move the window to the size and position that you desire.
Middle-click the window's icon to open the Power menu.
Using the Power menu items, set up the window the way you want, such as always on top of all others, maximized, dimmed, transparent, its process priority, etc.
Press the default hotkey of Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O to save this opening state. (If this hotkey isn't available, set a different hotkey for it in the Automation tab, for the action named Windows\Save as opening state).
Done! This window now always opens this way in future. Tip: You can also make annoying windows never open.
Sometimes your PC is performing a long operation (like a large download or long file copy process) and you don't want to wait for it to finish to shut down your PC. With AlomWare Toolbox, just middle-click the icon area of the window and select When closed > Shut down the PC (or one of the other available activities, such as whistling at you when you're in another room).
This feature is perfect for apps that don't have their own built-in function to do something on completion. No more sitting around wasting time!
One of the most annoying things with Windows (the OS) is when you're working in one window, and then another window (or prompt) pops up and steals the focus from it. This can have drastic implications, like when you're typing a password into a window and it switches to another!
With AlomWare Toolbox, you can freeze the focus to the window that you're currently using. Just middle-click its icon area and select Freeze the focus from the menu. Now other apps can't switch you out of it, but you can manually switch to another yourself by holding down the Ctrl key to select and click another window.
When you want to copy or extract the text from an image, you can use AlomWare Toolbox's OCR function. This example action grabs the text from the clipboard image, but there's additional ways to OCR text as well:
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TIP: Copy from Start to End to paste into an action.
0001 String: Assign from clipboard image ""
0002 Alert: Show a message "string$"
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Open AlomWare Toolbox's window with its hotkey and in the long Command box at the top of the window, enter ! followed by the number of minutes and reminder text.
Press Enter to start the timer. Done! Yes, it's that fast, and multiple reminders can be set this way.
For example, to be reminded to leave home in 15 minutes, just press the app's hotkey, then type !15Leave and press Enter. Your reminder will pop up after 15 minutes and can be seen or deleted in the Calendar tab.
No other productivity app makes setting quick ad-hoc reminders this fast and convenient!
We've all done it: you cut or copy something new to the clipboard for brief use, but then remember the clipboard held some important text (or image) that you still needed. Now it's gone forever... or is it? AlomWare Toolbox is here!
Open AlomWare Toolbox's window with its hotkey.
Go to the Clipboard tab.
Click either the Text or Images tab for what you need.
Scroll down the list or browse the image thumbnails, and double-click your item to put it back in the clipboard. Yes!
If your item is very important, you can right-click it and select Lock so that it can't ever be accidentally deleted.
When you accidentally close a folder in Windows, it can be annoying and laborious to find and re-open it. Not anymore! With AlomWare Toolbox, you can quickly get back to it (and closed apps and docs) in just a few clicks.
Open AlomWare Toolbox's window with its hotkey.
Go to the Map tab.
Find the folder in the list, and double-click it to re-open, or right-click to re-open multiple selected items in one go.
Note: For privacy, you can disable the Map function at any time with a single click.
Open AlomWare Toolbox's window with its hotkey.
Go to the Misc tab.
Go to the Desktop Info tab.
Press the Scroll Lock key (or click Enable updates).
Move the mouse around the desktop to see a magnified image of where the mouse is, as well as stats for the item under the mouse (such as colors in RGB, CMYK, text, etc).
Turn off the Scroll Lock key (or disable updates) to lock what was under the mouse, and then double-click any item in the list to copy that info to the clipboard. This acts like a color picker or text extractor for items that you can't normally copy with the mouse.
With the automation step called Computer: Point at the mouse, you can have multiple floating fingers pointing at something static for fast and easy reference. Each finger can even have editable hover text with it, to remind you of what's being pointed at.
Just set a hotkey trigger with this automation step and then put your mouse over the area to point at, and press the hotkey. The finger moves with the window when you move it so you never lose your place. Disclaimer: tabbed windows and non-static pages aren't suitable for fingers.
Locking your PC is a good security practice when you don't need it, but what happens if you still need to see what's going on, such as waiting for a long process to complete that needs immediate attention when done?
With AlomWare Toolbox's Computer: Lock with overlay automation step, your desktop gets locked with a glass effect over it, so you can see what it's doing but nobody can use it.
