There’s a great deal on Direct Access, one of my favourite apps, over on Bits du Jour today. 40% off. Today only. Go grab it.
Direct Access lets you assign textual abbreviations to applications and other actions on your PC. Say you want to open Microsoft Word, you can just type “word” wherever you are, whatever application you’re working on. You can also create text substitutions. E.g. you could be writing an email and type “sign” and it will replace “sign” with your signature. Of course, there’s a confirmation key so you have to hit Shift, or F12 to confirm these actions. Otherwise I’d have opened Word three times and inserted my signature twice while trying to write this post 🙂
Direct Access is a really smart tool, written by my good friend Andrea Nagar of Nagarsoft. Please do check it out. I don’t often recommend other people’s software, but I just love Direct Access.
