Integrating web office products into your desktop
Submitted on July 26th, 2006 by admin
Filed under Productivity and Resources and Software and Windows
The longer I am involved with TipMonkies, the more useful sites I find, and the less desktop software I use. Aside from a browser, CD/DVD burning software, a music and video player, and a graphics manipulation application, there really isn’t anything else on my PC (aside from lots of music). One suite of programs I’ve been able to uninstall is any office application, opting instead for web-based office products like ajaxWrite. The problem with web-based office products is that it’s not integrated into your desktop so you couldn’t simply double-click a Word file and have it open up automatically…or could you?
Lifehacker has a good how-to on how to integrate these products into your desktop using a little application called AutoHotKey. This little application will let you associate office filetypes on your computer to web apps and open them automatically. Sweet!
August 6th, 2006 at 9:27 am
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September 1st, 2007 at 1:23 am
Thank you for this information and for the link to lifehacker.com, I am using AutoHotKey and it is excellent.