Three small useful utilities

Quite often, even on Habrahabr ( here , for example) there are complaints of fatigue, pressing Ctrl + S then Alt + tab then F5 when programming something browser-dependent. No less urgent is the problem of convenient non- insertion of text from the clipboard. Well, for a snack - quick calculations at the touch of a button.
I offer you a set of simple solutions, tested by me and time.

The solution consists of three small, but surprisingly, little-known free utilities, following the principle: do one thing, but do it well. ( Attention! These utilities, as far as I know, exist only for MS Windows, I think other users will be grateful if you specify analogs for other OS in the comments. )

So, meet:
Softvoile Rubilnik is a small automation utility for pressing Ctrl + S → Alt + tab → F5


The principle of action - there is no place easier . You choose the editor process, the browser process (and the program tries to do this automatically and often guesses it) and the hot key. Now, using the hot key, you will first switch to the editor. If your editor is active, then Ctrl + S will be pressed, then the program will switch to the browser and Ctrl + F5 will be pressed. By pressing just one key , you perform three actions at once . It is also very convenient to return to the editor from a third-party program with just one touch of the keyboard, especially if there are a lot of programs running.
There are also options for setting the pause time after Ctrl + S and a check mark: send Ctrl + S and Ctrl + F5 or just switch processes. Several times these additional settings had to be used.
In principle, the program is not complicated. Analog can be made on the knee, simply using scripts or macros (for example, with AutoHotkey, etc.), it may even be more functional. But I liked this program because of its simplicity and non-intrusiveness.
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ArsClip is a useful utility that works with the clipboard.


There are many such programs ( under GNU / Linux, I don’t know any of them as suggested in the comments ( 1 , 2 ): Parcellite, Diodon and Klipper ) but three things were important to me: the ability to insert plain text without formatting and the possibility of convenient control only from the keyboard . Many programs have their own hot key selection. In similar programs, the implementation of important functions for me was less convenient. Of course, since then, new versions have been released, but ... the architecture, the idea of ​​using it, are unlikely to change the program. ( If anyone is interested in analogs, then here are some of them: clipdiary, clipx, CLCL, there are others. )
At one time, it was only because of these functions that Punto Switcher used it, but for some reason his work with the clipboard worked stably and unstable (I apologize for the tautology). Keyboard Ninja, with the settings I needed, hung the system, and Orfo Switcher suffered a memory leak. And the main functionality of these programs was (and is) not very necessary for me.

Doing, albeit small, but a review of programs, it is impossible not to mention such a useful thing as the NumLock Calculator

An indispensable assistant in the times of students (and not only) for quick calculations, especially in a minimalist form, when the screen has only a narrow strip for entering expression and a thin edging.
How many times have you seen that a person sitting at a computer uses a regular calculator for calculations? I often. But it is the use of such programs that makes it possible to avoid this.
Unfortunately, the NumLock Calculator stopped its development (but you can still download it), and it has few direct followers. (Not to be confused with ordinary calculator programs.) I know only Calcute is also a small program that is convenient for quick calculations. ( Judging by the comments , Windows PowerShell is definitely popular. )
I would like to note that you should not confuse programs for quick calculations and monsters such as Mathad, MatLab, Mathematics, SpaceTime, RedCrab and others. NumLock Calculator and Calcute are designed for quick, relatively small but frequent calculations, which are convenient to use quickly on the fly.
( For GNU / Linux, I liked: bc program: extensions.bc author: Steffen Brinkmann. The comments also mention the built-in KRunner )

I chose programs for a long time, more than three years ago, but in this area, as far as I know, little has changed and the only thing that can alienate a potential user of these utilities is the English interface.