Speed up Common Tasks with Launchy

[ Thanks to Dmitri
Popov for this link. ]

“Thanks to the bundled plugins, you can use Launchy for
other tasks as well. For example, the Weby plugin allows you to
perform Web searches, look up words in online references, and open
email addresses. For example, to look up a word in Wikipedia, type
Wikipedia, press Tab, enter the word, and press Enter. The best
part is that you can easily specify your own queries. To do this,
right-click on Launchy’s interface and choose Options, switch to
the Plugins sections, and select the Weby plugin in the Available
plugins pane. In the right pane, you should see a list of the
predefined queries. Let’s say you want to be able to look up words
using the WordNet reference. First of all, you have to perform a
search in it and note the resulting URL. For example, the search
for the word “monkey” has the following URL:
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=monkey. Switch back to
the Options window, and press the Plus button to add a new entry in
the list of available queries. Type “Wordnet” in the Name field
(this is going to be the keyword that evokes the query), and
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/ in the URL field. Type then the
perl/webwn?s=%s string in the Query field. The %s string in the
query acts as a variable which is replaced with an actual search
term. That’s it, your query is ready to go.”

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