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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.
Simple Keyboard Shortcuts To Save You Time
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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”.
Create keyboard shortcuts for self-modifying menu items
Creating keyboard shortcuts for menu items whose names change.
