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Creating Keyboard Shortcuts With Spark

By Ricky Buchanan on April 14, 2009

Creating Keyboard Shortcuts With Spark

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 | 11 Responses

Simple Keyboard Shortcuts To Save You Time

By Ricky Buchanan on December 10, 2008

Simple Keyboard Shortcuts To Save You Time
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Mac Accessibility 101

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 | 9 Responses

Finder's Keyboard Shortcuts

By Ricky Buchanan on October 16, 2008

Finder's Keyboard Shortcuts

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 | 1 Response

BBAutoComplete – Typing Enhancer

By Ricky Buchanan on September 15, 2008

BBAutoComplete – Typing Enhancer

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 | Leave a response

Mail Act-On – Organize your mail without leaving your keyboard

By Ricky Buchanan on September 5, 2008

Mail Act-On – Organize your mail without leaving your keyboard

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 | Leave a response

Accented Words and Text Expansion Tools

By Ricky Buchanan on August 14, 2008

Accented Words and Text Expansion Tools

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 | Leave a response

Function Keys Mapper

By Ricky Buchanan on July 15, 2008

Function Keys Mapper

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 | 2 Responses

Using the keyboard with Leopard

By Ricky Buchanan on June 5, 2008

Using the keyboard with Leopard

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 | Leave a response

Text Expansion Tools

By Ricky Buchanan on May 9, 2008

Text Expansion Tools
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Text Expansion Tools

“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 | Leave a response

Create keyboard shortcuts for self-modifying menu items

By Ricky Buchanan on April 5, 2008

Create keyboard shortcuts for self-modifying menu items

Creating keyboard shortcuts for menu items whose names change.

Posted in Information, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged create keyboard shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts | 1 Response

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