Turn your Caps Lock button into a "Search" button.

So you know those highly sought after Google CR-48 notebooks being distributed to and tested by lucky recipients? Well if you do, you probably heard that they axed the Caps Lock key because, well how often do you use the Caps Lock key? ( unless you have a point to prove to that asshole on your message board). Here is how to follow suit and turn your Caps Lock key into a "Search" button like Google did with their beta-notebook. ( This will open chrome for you, if not open already, open a new tab and highlight the address bar so you can immediately begin searching.)

If you are using a Windows machine, you can add this code to your main AutoHotKey script:

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Capslock::
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
If WinExist("ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0")
{
WinActivate
WinWaitActive
Send ^t
Send ^l
}
else
{
Run "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
sleep 100
Send ^t
Send ^l
}
return
+Capslock::Capslock
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* Be sure to enter your user profile name where it says "YOURUSERNAME" in the code.


You can also do this with your Apple machine, but for that you'll have to visit Lifehacker

If you don't know what an AutoHotKey script is. There is a Google for that too :) I'm not your dad.

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