Using Activewords with the new Google Desktop
I’m pretty excited about this combination.
I’ve been a devoted fan of Activewords for several years, ever since I got that famous email from Buzz Bruggeman offering me a coaching lesson. I’ve just signed him up to do one for my wife as well, as she’s just got her first laptop and can’t wait to install Activewords on it.
Anyway, this new version of Google Desktop has a very cool feature where you can hit the Control key twice (CTRL-CTRL) and it brings up a search bar in the middle of your screen from which you can search your hard drive or the web.
Now this is very cool but CTRL-CTRL has been the command I’ve used for several years to bring up my Activewords bar (from which I can activate any of my programmed activewords).
But fear not! I worked out a simple solution that gives me the best of all worlds.
1. Go into Activewords settings and turn off the CTRL-CTRL setting.
2. Use the Google Desktop search bar.
3. When I hit CTRL-CTRL out of habit but really want an Activeword to run, not a Google search, I simple hit the other Activeword commant (SPACE-SPACE) instead of hitting ENTER, which activates the Google search instead.
Oh and I’ve got the default Google search set to be my desktop. If I want it to search the web instead, I hit CTRL-W when I have the Google search bar open. This automatically takes me to a web search.