If you don’t know it this magazine, Québec Micro is a french computer magazine that has a circulation of 40,000 copies and is distributed freely across the province. I submitted two articles to them during my vacation. The first of these has been posted on their web site) while the second will be in the April issue of the printed magazine. I am quite excited about this and will post again once the issue is available. It will be fun to see my words in print and be able to share my computer knowledge with many people.

A few weeks ago, a colleague mentioned how annoyed he was at always making typos when typing e-mail addresses of employees within our company (@engenuitytech.com). After doing a quick web search on my favorite site (sourceforge.net), I found a wonderful utility that solved his problem and also hads many interesting feature. HotKeyBind can be used to assign special functionality to any key or key combination on the keyboard.

These functionalities include typing text, starting an application and many other tasks. Of course, you want to be careful not to assign functionlity to keys commonly used by other applications, such as the F1 key that usually bring up help, but there are only a few of these exceptions to be careful about.

To make things even better, this is open source freeware! You will find a link to this and many other useful free application here.