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Title: Keyboard Maestro: 8 unexpected uses for the old-school Mac-hacking tool Post by: HCK on September 23, 2014, 09:00:16 pm Keyboard Maestro: 8 unexpected uses for the old-school Mac-hacking tool
<article> <section class="page"> <p> OS X includes all kinds of tools to help speed up your Mac’s workflow—scripting, keyboard shortcuts, and Automator among them. But the venerable utility Keyboard Maestro (http://www.macworld.com/article/2040496/mac-gems-keyboard-maestro-6-is-a-genius-at-repetitive-tasks.html) can be more useful, in more different ways, than any of those built-in tools.</p><p> Keyboard Maestro is a strange beast. At first glance, many people think it’s just a more advanced version of OS X’s built-in text replacements, a competitor to TextExpander and Typinator. But if you dig just a bit deeper, you’ll find it’s really more of an alternative to automation tools like Applescript or Automator, with the ability to launch all kinds of actions with a variety of triggers (not just from the keyboard).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2686838/keyboard-maestro-8-unexpected-uses-for-the-old-school-mac-hacking-tool.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Keyboard Maestro: 8 unexpected uses for the old-school Mac-hacking tool (http://www.macworld.com/article/2686838/keyboard-maestro-8-unexpected-uses-for-the-old-school-mac-hacking-tool.html#tk.rss_all) |