Review of Magicwords : From Google Code

Magicwords is an open source clone of SlickRun. I came across this when I was searching for Slickrun. It is currently at version 1.3, so that made me think it must be quite stable, and hence wanted to give it a shot. I am quite happy with SlickRun as is, but wanted to find out how it compares.

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My Clean Desktop

Here is the screen shot of my clean Desktop

All I have is nice picture occupying the full screen (Thanks to Webshots). I find the calendar Feature of Webshots very handy. I can see three months at a stretch. To the right I have my todo list. I maintain the todo list using todo.sh scripts created by Gina Trapani of Lifehacker. I use Active Desktop feature to display it on the screen. todo.sh has option to sort of contents by priority and then color code it. But is works only in a shell. So I created my own standalone PHP parser to create the color coded output that I want.

Finally, slickrun to launch many of my frequently used apps and URLs. Font size used is 48. Nice and Big Date and Time display.

Update : (Dec 5th, 2008)  Only difference since originally this was published, is that I graduated to Executor from slickrun