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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.

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 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.

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.

AlphaOmega Software’s Function Keys Mapper guides you to set your function keys to launch applications or open specific files or websites.

“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”.

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Text Expansion ToolsI already wrote about TextExpander, but here’s a little more information from Lifehacker about what text expansion is and why it can save keyboard users time and energy:
Save Time With Text Substitution is a general introduction which mentions both Mac and Windows programs [...]

TextExpander is a great program for those who use a keyboard but want to save typing effort or keystrokes. It takes a bit of setting up to get it to work with you, but once you’re up and running it can be very useful.

Did you know that the average Mac OS X application has 40 to 80 menu shortcuts?
Menu shortcuts are supposed to provide quick access to frequently used menu commands. But honestly: how many shortcuts do you know by heart?
KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively by displaying a concise table of [...]