Keypirinha

A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable). Extensible with Python3 plugins.

Free
Windows

keypirinha is a fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on windows.

features:

* quickly find and launch plethora of items like applications, files, bookmarks, urls, sessions (putty, winscp, filezilla), registry keys, ...* launch a search on any configured website or online dictionary* language translations onthefly* evaluate mathematical expressions* convert numbers* base conversion of numbers* launch a copied url directly (http, mailto, skype, ...)* split a url and convert its arguments to json* switch to a running application by name* hash a string (crc32, md5, sha, ...)* generate random uuids, passwords, bytes sequences* naturally associate a keyword to a specific item* machinespecific and/or userspecific configuration* ...

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Customizable Lightweight Program Launcher File search Calculus solving

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