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Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Today I want to continue the conversation about useful programs.

In fact, when working with website design, when adding new materials, we definitely use a number of auxiliary utilities - unnoticeable, but which have already become almost irreplaceable. For example, our today's hero is used to switch keyboard layouts and is called Punto Switcher. I won’t exaggerate if I say that the vast majority of RuNet users probably already have it.

Punto Switcher is a very convenient, simple and, importantly, reliable program that allows you to forget about how you actually switch the keyboard layout on your computer. But in addition to its main function, it also has a number of quite convenient functions, such as transliterating the contents of the clipboard, saving its history (the last 30 copies to the clipboard), forcing a keyboard layout change, autocorrect (you can assign frequently used words and phrases to hot keys) and much more.

Features of the free Punto Switcher program

Of course, most of the additional features of Punto Switcher are also available in other programs, but this utility is already installed on your computer and will be loaded along with the operating system anyway. Therefore, I personally find the set of features that it provides quite convenient, with the exception of only the function of saving the clipboard history. For this purpose, I use another program (Clipdiary), the capabilities of which will also be described at the end of this article.

So, Punto Switcher has always been a free program. Personally, I’ve been using it for about ten years and have become so accustomed to it that working on a computer without it not only causes me discomfort, but downright infuriates me and over time can drive me crazy. In general, I don’t quite understand why the great and terrible Melkosoft shouldn’t pre-install a similar feature in its operating system, because it’s very convenient not to bother with which keyboard layout you’re currently trying to type text in.

Some time ago the program development team Punto Switcher came under the wing of Yandex, who has since been tirelessly promoting it even on his own, and I think that Yandex has its own reason for this.

I won’t say that Bar is a bad addition, but Yandex’s interest here is obvious - to popularize its search and at the same time be able to collect statistics on user behavior on the sites they visit. Do you remember about and the associated new way of assessing the quality of content on a site? There are different Bars there and can be one of the sources of collecting this very data. But this in no way diminishes the merits of the Punto Switcher, and you can refuse to install an additional set. We have a democracy after all.

That. you can always download Punto Switcher absolutely free and at the same time, do not fear that a rootkit or Trojan may be introduced into a free utility, because it is not anyone who is responsible for this, but the “Runet mirror” itself. After installation, it will automatically be added to startup and will delight you with the appearance of the corresponding tray icon after each startup of the operating system.

That's it, now you can forget (forget) which hot keys on your computer were used to activate the keyboard layout switch. Punto will analyze the characters you enter on the fly and if such a combination of letters is statistically unlikely for the currently installed keyboard layout, then it will occur automatic switching even while you are typing word symbols.

Switching the layout will be accompanied by a sound signal, similar to carriage return on a typewriter. If, while typing a word, the Punto Switcher program fails to finally decide on the desired language, then it will definitely do so when you press the spacebar. She also makes mistakes, but quite rarely.

However, you always have the option to manually change the selected layout. To cancel an incorrect selection, simply press the key on the keyboard Pause/Break. True, this can only be done for the last word typed, until you have yet started typing the next one. This is somewhat inconvenient, but you can get used to it.

Probably, it is precisely because of the sometimes occurring errors when choosing a keyboard layout and the lack of knowledge of how this can be influenced that there are still haters of Punto Switcher who are prejudiced towards this program. But still she has many more fans. Therefore, let's try to go through its settings and consider the additional features that it provides us (besides switching layouts).

So, by default, Punto will launch automatically when the operating system boots and it will live in the tray (bottom right) in the form of an icon with a visual display of the typing language currently used. Therefore, you can deactivate the language bar that is displayed in Windows by default.

To access the Switcher settings, you need to right-click on the icon of this program and select “Settings” from the context menu:

There is nothing particularly interesting on the general settings tab:

True, at the bottom of the settings window you have the opportunity to assign your own hotkeys to manually switch keyboard layouts different from what you had selected in Windows. Personally, I haven’t used manual switching of layouts since I first installed Punto Switcher on my computer. It never occurred to me to uncheck “Auto switching”, because then why would I need this utility.

Clipboard Manager in Punto Switcher and Clipdiary

The only thing I changed was to remove the check mark from the “Show helpful tips” box. On the Advanced tab, you can check or uncheck the box "Monitor clipboard":

Punto Switcher has a so-called clipboard manager that can save the last thirty additions to it. If you check the box shown in the screenshot, the program will begin storing a stack of the thirty most recent copies to the buffer. You can access the contents of this manager in several ways:

By calling the clipboard manager in one way or another, you will see its contents:

That. to paste something previously saved into the buffer into the desired place, you need to place the mouse cursor in this place, call up the clipboard history view in Punto (it is best to set it first to a hotkey combination), find the line with the fragment you are interested in and click on it mouse. In general, everything is simple.

The Windows operating system clipboard itself stores data transferred to it directly in RAM and erases an old entry when a new one is added. This leads to two main disadvantages of the standard Windows tool:

inability to add several fragments to the clipboard at once
When the computer restarts or crashes, data from the standard clipboard is lost

In fact, when constantly working with texts, it is very often necessary to use the history of the clipboard. The add-on to Punto Switcher described just above solves these problems, but I personally think the stack of thirty values is too small, and there are not enough search functions for the buffer history.

Therefore, in addition to Punto Switcher, I also use a separate program. For personal, non-commercial use, this utility can be download for free. It will automatically register itself in autoload and all you have to do is set a hotkey combination in its settings to open a window with the history of the clipboard.

To do this, left-click on the Clipdiary icon with a yellow folder and select “File” - “Settings” from the top menu.

Now everything that you copy to the clipboard using ctrl+c and ctrl+x, as well as through the context menu, will be saved on your hard drive in the Clipdiary database. In the settings, you can set the number of stored records from the clipboard and, if necessary, clean the database:

In Clipdiary you can search through the history of the buffer and, what is not unimportant, everything that you now copy into it will be stored not in volatile memory, but on the hard drive. This once saved me from re-writing part of an article when an unexpected power surge forced the computer to reboot.

Transliteration in Punto Switcher, case change and autocorrect

But let's return to Punto Switcher. So, as you can see, in its settings it is possible to attach quite a lot of actions to hotkeys, except for showing the clipboard history, which we have already discussed in detail.

I still really like it and I use it all the time - auto-correct option:

You assign a key combination and paste any text, code, etc. onto it. I personally use autocorrect quite actively and I have many combinations configured in Punto Switcher (for all occasions). For example, I can touch-type quite quickly (thanks to ), but only on the Russian keyboard layout. But I have troubles with the Latin alphabet.

Therefore, I preferred to assign all the terms in Latin, which I often use in many articles, to the autocorrect hotkeys in Punto (for example, the words Joomla, WordPress, VirtueMart, WebMoney, Html and others).

I am already almost blindly entering the given combinations to insert the desired word, while typing the same word in the Latin layout causes me some inconvenience (I need to rise from the lying position of the computer chair to the sitting position and begin the unusual process of searching for the necessary keys on the keyboard).

I also periodically add links to new publications in old articles that would be appropriate in the course of the story. Thus, I improve such an important promotion factor as internal linking. It is more convenient for me to make changes to texts in, because there is the possibility of rolling back. But notepad++ does not have a visual editor, and therefore, to insert a hyperlink, I would have to write its code every time according to all the rules of the Html language.

P.S. Now I have discovered the WebEdit plugin in Notepad++, which adds the buttons I need to the toolbar:

AutoCorrect in Punto Switcher allows you to automate this process by attaching the opening and closing Html tags of links to two hotkey combinations. To do this, you need to click the “Add” button in the settings (see the screenshot above) and enter the desired sequence of characters, which will then be replaced with the text or code fragment you need:

When you have configured all the autocorrect combinations you need, you can select in the Punto Switcher settings which button will be used to perform it. There are two options, of which the first one suits me best (Enter or Tab), because... Autocorrect by pressing the spacebar sometimes worked for me in the wrong place.

Now, based on our example, we can insert two letters X in a row “xx” in the text (or two “hch” in the Russian layout), and then press the “Tab” key on the keyboard.. In my opinion, this is very convenient. Yes, there are many programs that implement autocorrect, but you already have Punto Switcher installed and you don’t need to mess up the operating system with anything else.

Now let's go to the settings again and go to the "Hot Keys" tab. The most interesting things there seem to me to be the already assigned combinations in the first four lines:

I have already mentioned the first of them - this is canceling the erroneous switching of the layout using the “Pause/Break” key. Punto Switcher sometimes makes mistakes and if you notice this right away, you can press “Pause/Break” to change the layout of the last entered word. If you notice this later, you can highlight the desired word or words, and then press the hotkey combination "Shift+Pause/Break"— the layout of the highlighted words will change.

Sometimes it is necessary change the case of letters in a word to the opposite (for example, if you typed text with “Caps Look” turned on) and for this, Punto Switcher provides the “Alt+Pause/Break” hotkey combinations. You will need to select the entire word(s) or just a few problematic letters, and then press “Alt+Pause/Break” on the keyboard - the case of the selected letters will change to the opposite.

And, finally, another very convenient feature integrated into this utility, which I regularly use, is the ability to translate the language (i.e., not a direct translation, as, for example, in, but namely the replacement of Russian letters with Latin ones in sound). Transliteration is used to write Russian words in Latin letters. Why might this be necessary?

The whole point is that for search engines (in particular, Yandex), using transliteration in pages is a better option than using Russian characters or words in English. No, of course, transliteration will not give you a hundred points ahead, but it may be the last straw that allows you to get and stay in the Top of the search results. You should not neglect its use.

So, Punto Switcher allows you to instantly transliterate a selected fragment of Russian text. To do this, use a hotkey combination "Alt+Scroll/Lock". Fast and easy. Personally, I use this feature to transliterate the names of image files added to my blog content.

The fact is that optimizing images comes down not only to using the necessary ones, but it would also be advisable to use a transliteration of the same keys in the name of the image file.

In addition, you can use the possibility of instant transliteration using Punto Switcher in Joomla. The fact is that when activated, you will have to fill out the “Nickname” field yourself when writing articles. The contents of this field will be added to the Url address of the page with this article and to improve search engine optimization it is best to use transliteration.

That. you can copy the title of the article in the “Nickname” field, place a dash between the words and transliterate the entire text using Punto Switcher (“Alt+Scroll/Lock”). Although I personally prefer to use a component that does all this automatically, there are cases when using this component is either ineffective or not possible.

In general, you will probably need to use transliteration, change layout and register using Punto hotkeys. Of course, you can say that everything I described in this article is trifles and meaningless trifles.

But here it is necessary to make allowances for the fact that these little things from the Punto Switcher arsenal bring a slight simplification to the routine that any webmaster does every day. Believe me, you will feel relief immediately and for a long time you will remember the kind words of the authors of the program for such insignificant, but very trifles that make life easier.

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Features of different operating systems

If your computer doesn't have per-application language settings, you can easily adjust them. Most operating systems, even new ones like Windows 10, provide layout controls.

But finding them is not always easy. For example, in Windows XP, just right-click on the layout icon in the panel. In the menu that opens, select auto switching.

And in the eighth operating system from Microsoft, as in the previous one, number 7, the settings are somewhat more difficult to find. In the languages section, you need to select additional options, among which there is a menu for switching input methods.

There you can already select an input option for each application - whether to allow it or not, by checking your choice. In mac OS it is easier to find these settings, in the “keyboard” section.

Word has its own rules

Many other opportunities to customize your system and increase your productivity can be found aware of Evgeniy Popov . Just remember that programs are not always able to correctly determine the user's intentions.

Therefore, you should not shift all responsibility for the correctness of the text onto them. For example, when entering a password, such programs often make corrections, preventing you from writing it correctly.

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Well, hello again. You may have guessed from the title what we will be talking about. Yes, exactly how to automatically switch the keyboard language layout. You may remember that in a recent article we discussed in detail the issue of hotkey combinations. But, have you considered how many characters and words you type on a computer keyboard per day, and it’s very unpleasant when you look up and see a picture like this:
"Hello, shall we go to the KinoFresh cinema today? nfv bltn jnkbxysq abkmv... "
Is this situation familiar to everyone? And you have to retype the text again, it seems like a small thing, but not pleasant. And all because they forgot to switch the language in time. So let's talk about how to set up automatic keyboard language switching.
Yes, in our time, when almost any process is automated, even related to finance, changing the language automatically will not be any problem. So, let's talk about how to do this, of course you will have to install additional software called from the well-known company Yandex, since this cannot be done using standard Windows 7 or 8 tools. You can download it via a direct link absolutely free and always have the latest version.
So, after you download and install this program, another icon will appear in your taskbar:

It, just like the standard language bar, notifies you about the keyboard layout, and if necessary, automatically switches the layout, accompanying this process with a characteristic sound signal. The program also has the ability to switch the layout manually. All this and much more, you can further configure in the program, including language switching rules, exception programs where automatic keyboard layout switching is not needed:

How to disable automatic language switching
After you have downloaded and installed the program, “Auto switching” is enabled by default - this means that the program itself will change the layout if necessary. But sometimes we don’t need it at all, for example in some programs. In this case, you can easily turn off this function. To do this, right-click on the icon in the taskbar and uncheck the box:

Or you can add the desired program to the list of exclusion programs in the settings.
With this program, you can type text without thinking about whether you switched the language or not, because it will do everything for you! The interface is extremely simple, convenient and understandable, and I think that there will be no problems with it, but if they do happen, I will definitely answer all your questions in the comments to this article.

Download Punto Switcher for free

Of course, touch typing is not very good, but what can you do if you are used to this style of typing and somehow don’t really want to relearn it, although it wouldn’t hurt.

When I type text, every 2-3 words I glance at the monitor. Sometimes I see that I forgot to switch the keyboard layout. As a result, you have to erase all the words typed in the wrong layout and type the same text again.

If you forget to switch the keyboard layout, then I suggest you familiarize yourself with the program “ Punto Switcher" in this post.

Switch keyboard layout automatically.

Program " Punto Switcher"Easy to use. Immediately after installation, the program will monitor the typing of words from the keyboard and if something goes wrong, immediately switch the language layout.

But there are times when working on a PC with the program turned on is simply not possible.
Inconveniences arise, for example, when the user plays games for years. The program does not understand the code whether it is worth switch language or not, the corresponding beep sounds and the keystroke simply does not work.

So that such problems do not arise when playing games or working with another program, it is possible to add the program you need to an exception.

Open the program by double-clicking on the icon in the system tray, the settings window will open. In it, select the item “ Exclusion programs"Next, click the " Add…" and select the application you need, then click the " button ok»

Now the program is not will switch language in the application of your choice!

One more unimportant detail that is worth paying attention to. These are hotkeys. There are situations when a program switches the keyboard language at moments when this is not necessary.

This happens very often when typing “ Captcha" Online.

For example, the situation is like this— The characters from the captcha are typed normally, but on the last character it will take and I'll switch the language. It is very uncomfortable (!!!)

In this case, it’s worth setting up hot keys, or rather just one key! And this " Cancel layout conversion»

As you have already noticed, I have “F12”. You can set another key as you wish.

What does this give?
When the user types a word and happens switching language layout, then you just need to press “F12” and the word will be converted to another layout. Very often you have to use it when typing captcha from a website.

There is one more inconvenient moment . Still the same captcha! There are times when the captcha was typed successfully, but the layout did not switch, everything is fine. But! At the moment you press the " Enter"is happening switch layout. As a result, the WEB form is sent with an incorrectly typed “Capcha” and you will have to enter the “Capcha” again, and if you register on the site, then you will have to enter other fields again, for example the field “ Password"You'll have to dial again!

There is only one way out of the situation! Do not press the " Enter" and "Send" etc. to successfully send the WEB form.

This is perhaps the biggest disadvantage of this application, but what can you do? Just be patient or don’t use the program at all!

In principle, there is nothing more to say. The program also has other settings that I never touch, since everything else suits me by default.
You can familiarize yourself with them and correct them in the way that suits you!

Punto Switcher- a program for automatically switching keyboard layout (language) when typing text. And that's it.

This is the best program for this task. It's so harsh that it hasn't even been updated for over a year. There is simply nothing to update - everything works perfectly, because it was produced by the great Yandex itself. Of course, you can switch the layout using the built-in means of the system, in other words, by successively pressing the “Alt” and “Shift” or “Ctrl” and “Shift” keys (depending on who)…

But why break your fingers and brain if Punto Switcher can handle it itself. All you need to do is not stop typing the text, but program for automatically switching layouts(language) will figure out what language you are creating your masterpiece in and switch the layout automatically with a specific sound. You can configure rules for different programs. And you can change the sound when you press any key (set a farting sound, for example, and amuse your friends).

Let's finally get started...

Download Punto Switcher

Install Punto Switcher

Click on the shortcut...

Uncheck (by clicking on it with the left mouse button) in the box indicated by the arrow and without changing anything else (instead of E: you will most likely have C: - I just have the system on the E: drive, in any case, don’t change anything) click (Install)…

Uncheck the indicated boxes and that’s it - (Finish).

Now, in fact, all that remains is to enable Punto Switcher. Go to the Start menu, look for the program and click on it...

An icon for the Punto Switcher program appeared in the tray (on the right, near the clock). Congratulations.

Setting up Punto Switcher

Click on this icon with the RIGHT mouse button and click on (Settings)…

We get...

I only checked these two boxes and that’s it. I didn't change anything else.

To assign a sound when you press any key (which I talked about at the beginning) when typing, go to (Sounds)...

Check the two checkboxes at the top, and then click the (Edit) button. A folder with sounds will open. To use your sound, you must first save it in the “Sounds” folder of the program Punto Switcher and select it …