AutoHotkey

AutoHotkey Script to Eject a Portable Drive (Like an iPod)

AutoHotkey comes to my aid, again. I recently came to realize I had a need to eject my iPod at 9:00am every day. There are two parts to this problem. You need a way to check the time, on some interval. And you need a way to tell windows to do the eject. While this is not terribley complicated, there is one catch. AutoHotkeys "eject" command only works on CD/DVD drives. The help file does have an example bit of code that does the job, though. Click below to read on... (By the way, I noticed a link to this sitepointing to my other AutoHotkey entry. Autohotkey.blogspot.com appears to be starting up a collection of pointers to useful scripts)

AutoHotKey is definitely more than just a "Hot Key App Launcher"

I started using AutoHotKey recently. I was inspired by conversations about the Mac OSX app "Quicksilver." I really interested in the MacBreak Weekly Quicksilver conversation, but disappointed that it was an OSX app. Sometime shortly after, there was talk about Windows alternatives on another TWIT podcast. In fact, I believe it was actually on "This Week in Tech" Among the options, the only one I liked was AutoHotKey.