Change Keyboard Shortcuts into Mouse Gestures & Hotspots with Live Edge

We are always trying our best to be faster while using a computer, utilizing anything from keyboard shortcuts to 3rd-party application launchers. While we are often most accustomed to keyboard shortcuts, here's an interesting option to add some speed to your computing life based on keyboard shortcuts.

LiveEdge is an interesting task launcher that allows users to add hotspots to the top corners and the left, top and right edge of their desktop screen edge in order to launch a specific task. It is unique in a way that it helps convert some keyboard shortcuts into a hotspot. That way, users who only had one hand on their mouse (maybe their other hand is holding a can of coke, a cake slice, documents etc.) can just launch any keyboard shortcuts by dragging the cursor to the hotspots.

On usability, LiveEdge can be considered quite easy to use. It sits quietly in your system tray and could easily be enabled and disabled anytime by clicking the tray icon. If you double-click on the icon, LiveEdge will exit totally. Right-clicking on the tray icon brings up the settings menu. LiveEdge also happens to support customized user profiles. For example, if you want to use a preset configuration, just press the Load button and choose one of the included settings files. You can also make your own settings files by pressing the Save As button.

However, setting it up is yet another different story compared to using it. To properly configure LiveEdge to respond to a keyboard shortcut, it is very important that you read the help file on the settings page carefully. The code for your keyboard shortcuts must be entered exactly as written on the keyhelp windows provided or else your hotspots will not work. However, once you get it to work, it is a brilliant tool. I tried out this tool, and after properly configuring it, I can now configure one of my hot spots to take a Print Screen now instead of having to reach my fingers for the fn button and pressing the prt sc button!

LiveEdge supports only Windows Vista and Windows 7. It also requires Microsoft .NET Framework v3.5 in order to run (Windows 7 users do not have to worry because .NET Framework version 3.5 come bundled together with the OS).

Download LiveEdge v1 by clicking on this download link.