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The NANY 2023 event is now closed.

If you are a coder, any new program (or addon) that you have released in the previous year, which is freeware/donationware for home users is eligible.

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FARR is the best windows keyboard quick launcher I've ever used
Find and Run Robot (FARR) is a program for Windows users who are keyboard maniacs. It uses an adaptive "live search" function to rapidly find programs and documents on your computer as you type. FARR is the best windows "keyboard quick launcher" I've ever used.

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January 2008 25

SelectoSurf - Open plaintext URLs flexibly from any program

;------------------------------------------------------------------
; Select plaintext in any program and hit the hotkey (ctrl+space)
; If the text looks like a url or website name (like donationcoder.com), it will be opened.
; otherwise a google search will be conducted with the phrase.
; urls will be cleaned of unnesc. punctuation and split-lines will be merged.
;
; Compiled exe and .ahk source script included.
;------------------------------------------------------------------

There are a lot of scripts that do this kind of thing, but i still thought it would be nice to have another that people could customize.

Just select a url or something that looks like a url in any program and hit hotkey to open proper web page in browser.
Fixes urls that are malformed (missing prefixes, extra surrounding characters, etc.)
If you select a non-url phrase a web search is conducted
Compiled exe included that uses default browser and hotkey Ctrl+Space, but autohotkey source is provided you can customize
Cleans up split-line urls, perfect for email urls

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