Guillotine is a FREE and lightweight Windows utility that allows you to quickly and naturally access items you commonly (and uncommonly) use like programs, bookmarks, contacts, and web searches. The idea is to find things quickly just by typing a few keys, selecting your item, and going on your merry way. It’s much more intuitive than hunting down those items as you normally would. It may take a while to break your old habits, but once you do, you’ll see how much more intuitive it is to your normal workflow.
Current Features
While I have many super cool features waiting to be added, the initial feature set is good enough for most common uses:
- Fast access to files in common directories (e.g. Start Menu, Quick Launch, My Documents, etc.).
- Fast access to Outlook contacts and bookmarks in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera.
- Fast access to search sites like Google, Yahoo, Wiki, etc.
- Quickly browse your file system using the arrow keys on your keyboard.
- Configurability of all of the above.
- Plugin architecture allows plugin developers to add any type of functionality they want.
Notes
Guillotine is FREEWARE. Don’t let anyone charge you for it. It contains NO spyware or adware.
Guillotine runs on Windows 2000 and XP only. I haven’t yet tested it on Vista or Server 2003. It will *not* run on Windows 95/98/ME.
