I created a fun little utility that turns your Caps Lock key into a Billy Mays key. When you run it, a little Billy Mays icon appears in the system tray. Whenever you hit Caps Lock, you'll hear Billy Mays say one of his famous phrases ("Hi, Billy Mays here", "order right now and we'll double the value", etc). Just something quick and fun that I hope will make people smile. It's under 1MB and available for local install into Windows and in PortableApps.com Format.
http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/billy_mays_caps_lock/
Hope you like it! 
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thanks
finally someone talking about Billy's death not Micheal's
very funny and small (going to be using this a lot)
Who is Billy Mays?
Alright, now we have Billy Mays Caps Lock Portable. Is WinPenguins Portable coming soon too (same category, I guess)?
Who is Billy Mays? Seriously? Do you OWN a TV set?
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/pitchmen/pitchmen.html
This app is unofficial. It is open source and follows all the usual format stuff, but I don't think I'll list it on PA.c.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Never heard of him before he died. Probably the fact that I don't listen much to english TV in Quebec, or at least I never saw one of his ads.
don't you have to have a TV set AND live in the USA... I don't think we've heard of him in the UK.
WinPenguins Portable exists... it was portabilized a long time ago (about 2 years), you just have to search for it...
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
I have it on my stick, but it's not official.
Is there any way we can add our own Billy Mays catch phrases (wav files) to it? Maybe through an ini or something?
Not right now. But if you can get em to around 100k-200k (mono) and really good quality and post em online, maybe I'll update the app with em
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
though you could replace one of the default wav files with your own (keeping the exact name)
Nice
Glad to see that autohotkey was used. I was wondering though whether or not u should have used the following for line 35
Im wondering if it should be this.....
I think doing that will allow CapsLock to be activated. Right now if you press the CapsLock it will play the sound but wont activate the capslock. But idk if your intentions are for the user to do that cause they would have to press it again to make things lowercase. But all in all this is pretty nice and glad to see ahk was used. I looked over the code and didnt find anything wrong. I just was wondering about the above but its not a bug or anything its just a suggestion that you can use it if you want but im not 100% sure if adding that in isolates that hotkey to this script but im pretty sure it does sorta in a way.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)
Since Caps Lock is essentially useless anyway, we don't want users having to worry about hitting it an even number of times when they want to hear some Billy. And if you really want to enable/disable caps, you just hit Shift-CapsLock.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I know I said I wasn't going to make this official, but is there anyone that wants it to be? What about just announcing it?
It seems to have made more fans than expected and if announcing it or adding it gets it wider exposure, that would be cool.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
IANAL, but are you allowed to use the sound-files?
I've got the same thoughts here as Bart.S on this. It would be cool to release this, seeming how a fair few people already like it, but the issues (if there's any) would have to be with the sound files.
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
It can't be that hard to be allowed to use the sound files. There is no money exchanging hands to make this program.
Anyway, if possible, yeah! Make this official.
Hey! Where'd it go?
It's just like sharing music or videos or posting them on YouTube, no money involved so it's ok.
Ed
whichever is less, I think is the rule for non-profit or educational uses. At least that is what they tell us from the multimedia rules at USC.
Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.
I think it would be a neat thing to at least announce, and it would be cool to have as an official app even as a promo or short term offering.
Besides the fact it seems like a fitting tribute to him, I like the fact it helps avoid accidental caps lock pressing.
Or you could just use this...
http://members.execulink.com/~pjones/toggler/
Writes to the registry, launcher available upon request