Hot Chime

  Hot Chime is a small utility that lets you launch your favorite sites and most frequently used programs by your own 'Hot Words'. You can set a Hot Word 'g' to launch Google and 'xl' to start MS Excel on your PC. It also lets you easily & instantly lookup words in a dictionary, get Whois info for domains, and search the Google Groups. The default Hot Key is - Pause. To access CNN for news, simply press 'pause', then type: cnn, and press 'enter'.