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ActiveWords - The most useful utility I'm no longer using
by Jason Clarke Jul 21st 2006
To be fair, up front I should warn you: this post is an opinion piece. About two months ago I moved to a new laptop, and went through all of the nonsense that is involved with setting up a new machine. I've just noticed today that I haven't bothered to install many of the programs that I previously would have gone to the effort and jumped through the hoops necessary to get registered on my new machine. And not because the software isn't good.
I'm picking on ActiveWords in the title here, but this applies to many other programs too. In fact, it applies to any commercial software that requires some form of registration to validate it on a given PC. But since I've named ActiveWords in the title, I'll use it as my example.
ActiveWords is an insanely useful tool for power users on PCs. I've long said that it's the scripting or macro engine that Windows should have had built right in, and I still believe it. The power and simplicity in ActiveWords is virtually unparalleled.
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