{"id":1912,"date":"2015-10-05T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T07:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2015-10-05T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T11:37:25","slug":"toolfish-was-10-is-now-free-as-of-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=1912","title":{"rendered":"Toolfish (was $10) is now free as of today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is Toolfish? \u00a0It&#8217;s my tiny tray app for power users that runs in the background while you&#8217;re using your Windows machine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used this app <strong>EVERY DAY<\/strong> for the last 10 years and the first thing I do after buying a new computer is move my Toolfish setup\u00a0to it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/toolfish\/graphics\/toolfish_ss3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"582\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It allows you to stack &#8220;<strong>Triggers<\/strong>&#8221; that cause &#8220;<strong>Actions<\/strong>&#8220;, which can also be stacked. \u00a0For instance, a trigger could be &#8220;<strong>if Ctrl-Alt-L<\/strong>&#8221; is down, and a certain app name is in focus, run some <strong>Actions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Actions<\/strong> could be could be things like running programs, faking keystrokes, reading text out-loud via text to speech, sending an email, lots of things.<\/p>\n<p>It also has other built in features like <strong>Leet-Type<\/strong> (NEVER USE THIS!), neat stats like how many miles you&#8217;ve moved your mouse, <strong>Smart Muting<\/strong> your computer if inactive, letting you know if a <strong>Webpage has changed by more than a certain percent<\/strong>, <strong>or a certain word exists or is missing on a website<\/strong>, stuff like that. \u00a0All in a tiny 1.3 MB download!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/toolfish\/graphics\/toolfish_ss1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used to use it to run <strong>Funeral Quest<\/strong> if it noticed it wasn&#8217;t running&#8230; helped with crashes!<\/p>\n<p>It comes with a few nice hotkeys like Ctrl-Shift-G to open a browser,\u00a0Ctrl-Shift-Alt-I to paste your *true* IP address, stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>It can also <strong>Monitor<\/strong> if a website is down, \u00a0<strong>Shutdown or reboot your computer<\/strong>, just tons of weird stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It also has a <strong>Stealth Mode<\/strong> to hide the tray icon &#8211; combined with the key stroke logger, this app could be used for evil, so don&#8217;t use it that way please!<\/p>\n<p>It has &#8220;<strong>Event Wizards<\/strong>&#8221; that let you do things like &#8220;<strong>Remind me in 5 minutes<\/strong>&#8221; in just a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/toolfish\/graphics\/toolfish_ss2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some features like email checking and atomic clock adjustments are less useful these days than when I wrote them (back in the Windows 98\/2000 era) so I&#8217;d ignore those features.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is a $10 app that is now free, so give it a shot. \u00a0I&#8217;ll keep adding little tools and utilities to it, I did add one new action for this release: \u00a0&#8220;<strong>Set Microphone level<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to those who bought this over the last ten years!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rtsoft.com\/ToolfishFullInstaller.exe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/toolfish\/graphics\/button_trial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"49\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/toolfish\/\">here<\/a>, or just go ahead and download the full version like you know you want to <a href=\"http:\/\/rtsoft.com\/ToolfishFullInstaller.exe\">here<\/a>\u00a0for Vista\/Win7\/Newer. \u00a0For Win XP, try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/toolfish\/ToolfishFullInstaller208.exe\">older version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My plan is to continue releasing more of my stuff as free as I get time to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Toolfish? \u00a0It&#8217;s my tiny tray app for power users that runs in the background while you&#8217;re using your Windows machine. I&#8217;ve used this app EVERY DAY for the last 10 years and the first thing I do after buying a new computer is move my Toolfish setup\u00a0to it! It allows you to stack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}