OK, my previous post got a bit edited by the system. The second last sentence should have read:

I wrote:

I've been a Launchy user for quite some time, and although I still think it uses the best algorithm to match the text input string to the desired program, it has one issue that drives me nuts: it's too slow. Many of my most-used programs are invoked by a single character (like "f" for "Firefox"). Problem is that if I…

The Storm is a bit louder than the Fox in tests, but the Fox is a MUCH smaller package, thus more convenient to carry (and thus be available when you need it).

Another excellent (free, Windows) program for learning to touch type is Stamina Typing Tutor, available here:

ahoier wrote:

Whatever this site is doing, it's not the equivalent of a search using the actual engine. I just did a search with a single term, specifying Google as the mechanism, and got 4 hits. When I repeated the search using the real Google, I got 44 hits for the exact same term, and the #1 position was occupied by a site that…

Another convenient representation of this information can be found at http://tools.oratory.com/altcodes.html

Another vote for SpaceMonger, which I have long found to be the most useful of this type of utility.

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Certainly the "big three" in this category are (and have been for quite some time) Faststone, Irfanview, and XnView. It's largely a matter of personal preference which is "best". Those who use an application like this a lot should try all three and discover for themselves which one they prefer.

Another solution worth considering is Torrent Harvester, a program (not a Web site) that searches a truly [b]huge[/b] number of torrent sites (about 170 the last time I looked). New search engines are being added to it all the time, and it's pretty straightforward to add your own (if you can find torrent sites that it…

Other good resources for this sort of thing include http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/ (my favourite), http://www.allwords.com/ , and http://www.bryson.ltd.uk/tea.html

So far, no one has mentioned what I think is one of (if not the) best typing tutor programs (for Windows), and it's completely free: "Stamina Typing Tutor". You can find it at: http://www.typingsoft.com/stamina.htm