For a truly Zen experience of your Windows desktop, install Enso from Humanized (http://www.humanized.com). Enso Launcher and Enso Words are simply must-to-have. These are very small programs that run in the background and are brought up by pressing the Caps Lock key (this is the default setting, which can be changed, of course). Press Caps Lock, type in a command, release Caps Lock and stuff happens: applications launch, websites open, words are defined and texts are spellchecked. My favorite features or commands are “Spell”, “Calc” and “Define”, which allowed me to check and correct the spelling of any selected text regardless of the application, calculate the result of any math equation and lookup dictionary definition of any selected word.
Another great feature of Enso is that you don’t need administrator rights to your computer to install it. It drops into your Documents and Settings folder with a very small footprint.
I so got used to Enso that I totaly miss it on my Mac. And while in some features it is similar to QuickSilver, I find that I liked Enso and its features better.
Definitely give Enso a try, you will like it.
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