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By Ricky Buchanan on April 14, 2009
Spark is a powerful, and easy to use shortcuts manager. You can use it to set “hot keys” to open applications and documents, execute AppleScripts, control iTunes, trigger menu items, and more.
Posted in Information, OS X, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged features, hot keys, hotkeys, keyboard enhancement, keyboard shortcuts |
By Ricky Buchanan on December 10, 2008
Keyboard shortcuts are a quick way of getting many things done without needing to access the menus or the mouse. If you know to press command-s to save your work, you’ve used a keyboard shortcut. For people who primarily use a keyboard or a switch interface, using keyboard shortcuts can save a lot of time and effort.
Posted in Educators, Information, OS X, Overuse Injuries, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Simple, Supporters, Users | Tagged carpal tunnel syndrome, efficiency, features, free download, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, memory aid, overuse, overuse injury, productivity, repeditive strain injury, rsi, save time, shortcut keys, strain, tendonitis, tension, time saving, use the computer better, use the computer faster |
By Ricky Buchanan on October 16, 2008
It’s no surprise to most Mac users that you can use arrow keys to navigate through Finder windows. What many new Mac users don’t realize though is that there are Command versions of these arrow keys which also have useful functions.
Posted in Information, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Supporters, Users | Tagged finder, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, shortcut keys |
By Ricky Buchanan on September 15, 2008
BBAutoComplete adds word auto-completion to scriptable applications. You type the start of a word, press a key, and BBAutoComplete types the letters to complete the word. If BBAutoComplete guessed wrong, you can keep pressing the key to cycle through other possible completions.
Posted in New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged free trial, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, minimize typing, productivity, save typing, shareware, shortcut keys, speed up typing, text expander, Text Expansion Tools, time saving, type faster, typing quicker |
By Ricky Buchanan on September 5, 2008
Mail Act-On is a plugin for Apple’s Mail program which gives you the ability to assign a keystroke to almost any action that can be done with a mail message. It’s simple to configure and simple to use and free – couldn’t get any better than that!
Posted in New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged create keyboard shortcuts, free, keyboard shortcuts, mail |
By Ricky Buchanan on August 14, 2008
Text expansion tools are exactly suited to automatically add the accents, graves, and acutes to words as you type. TextExpander offers a free expansion pack to add a list of accented English words automatically, but you could add them to any text expansion tool yourself.
Posted in Information, New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Users | Tagged efficiency, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, minimize typing, productivity, save typing, shortcut keys, speed up typing, text expander, Text Expansion Tools, time saving, type faster, typing quicker |
By Ricky Buchanan on July 15, 2008
AlphaOmega Software’s Function Keys Mapper guides you to set your function keys to launch applications or open specific files or websites.
Posted in Intellectually Impaired, Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Supporters, Users, Vision Impaired | Tagged free trial, keyboard mapping, keyboard shortcuts, shareware, shortcut keys |
By Ricky Buchanan on June 5, 2008
The wonderful Lioncourt.com site have an article “A Key to Leopard” which is about using the keyboard to assist in quick and efficient navigation of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Posted in Information, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Users, Vision Impaired, VoiceOver | Tagged keyboard shortcuts |
By Ricky Buchanan on May 9, 2008
“Text Expansion: Wasting Time Trying to Save Time” tells of Dustin’s travails as he trys several tools to improve his typing speed. He recently added an addendum, “Text Expanders Revisited”.
Posted in Information, New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged free trial, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, minimize typing, productivity, save typing, shareware, shortcut keys, speed up typing, text expander, Text Expansion Tools, time saving, type faster, typing quicker |
By Ricky Buchanan on April 5, 2008
Creating keyboard shortcuts for menu items whose names change.
Posted in Information, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged create keyboard shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts |
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