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Keyboard Maestro 6

Keyboard Maestro 6.0 was released today adding macro syncing, plug in actions, trigger by name, full support for styled text, support for controlling Safari and Google Chrome, a macro debugger, and much more.

Version 6 requires Mac OS X 10.8+, and is available only directly, not from the Mac App Store.

Version 6 is a free upgrade for those customers who purchased directly from us since October 1, 2012. It is an $18 upgrade for those people who purchased version 5 (including from the Mac App Store) until July 31, and a $25 upgrade for all other customers and after July 31.

You can read the full press release listing over a hundred new features.

Choose Check For Update in Keyboard Maestro’s menu to download the new version (assuming you are on Mac OS X 10.8).

Thank you to all my loyal customers for allowing me to continue developing Keyboard Maestro!

Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Permalink. Post a Comment.

➽Sleep Deprivation For Your Mac

Patrick Welker shows a simple but clever macro to keep your MacBook awake for a period of time.

From: Rocket Ink — Writing with Space Ink

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽A better Google search experience with Choosy, Keyboard Maestro and Fluid

T J Luoma shows how to use Keyboard Maestro, Choosy, and Fluid to improve the Google search experience in Safari.

From: TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Batch converting Pages documents to PDF with Keyboard Maestro

Michael Laccheo shows an impressive macro to batch convert Pages documents to PDFs.

From: So, it’s come to this...

Posted Monday, February 18, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Trigger Keyboard Maestro Palettes With A String

Patrick Welker shows how to trigger Keyboard Maestro palettes with a typed string, going in to detail on the how and why of it.

From: Rocket Ink — Writing with Space Ink

Posted Friday, February 15, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽OmniFocus’s Focus mode in Scrivener

Andreas shows how to use Keyboard Maestro to get OmniFocus’s focus feature in Scrivener.

From: MOSX Tumblelog

Updated Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 12:00 AM. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Create a New .md File in the Current Folder

Federico Travaini shows how to create a new empty file in the current Finder Folder.

From: Spontaneously me

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽MOSX Tumblelog

Andreas shows how you can log application usage to a file.

From: MOSX Tumblelog

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Gradebook automation with TextExpander and Keyboard Maestro

Ed Cormany shows how he uses TextExpander and Keyboard Maestro to automate enter grading information in a spread sheet.

From: ecormany

Posted Friday, February 8, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Sandpaper Apps

Michael Schechter has a very interesting article on what he calls "Sandpaper Apps", apps that remove friction.

From: A Better Mess — Even you can be one…

Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro Pick of the Week on CastRoller News

Keyboard Maestro was nominated as Pick of the Week on CastRoller News. Thanks guys!

From: CastRoller

Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Automate Notification Center

Andreas shows how to turn Notification Center on or off, great for distraction free working.

From: MOSX Tumblelog

Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro and Illustrator

Aqeel Fikree shows a simple way of making Illustrator do what he wants, using his choice of command keys.

From: Aqeel Fikree

Posted Friday, February 1, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Bridging The Gap Between Path Finder And Finder

Patrick Welker shows how he uses Keyboard Maestro to smoothly use both the Finder and Path Finder.

From: Rocket Ink — Writing with Space Ink

Posted Friday, February 1, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Limit Time Spent With Certain Activities Using Keyboard Maestro

Andreas shows how to use Keyboard Maestro to limit the time spent in certain applications.

From: MOSX Tumblelog

Posted Thursday, January 31, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽NIH Stroke Scale with Keyboard Maestro and TextExpander

Michael Laccheo documents how he uses Keyboard Maestro and TextExpander to generate and calculate a NIH Stroke Scale.

From: Violent Necessity — so, it’s come to this…

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Ultimate Markdown Maestro Guide

Patrick Welker continues his Keyboard Maestro articles with this epic post about the various macros he uses in his "Markdown everywhere" quest.

From: Rocket Ink — Writing with Space Ink

Posted Monday, January 28, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Export as PDF KeyboardMaestro macro

Pedro Fonseca shows how a simple macro can save a lot of time and frustration.

From: Pedro

Posted Sunday, January 27, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Using Keyboard Maestro to create new Jekyll posts

Justin Blanton explains his Keyboard Maestro a workflow for automatically creating Jekyll posts.

From: Hypertext

Posted Saturday, January 19, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Look up a shorter synonym on Thsrs

Gordon Meyer shows how to use the Ironic Sans service to return short synonyms.

From: Nothing Up My Sleve

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro Macro: User Agents

Devir Kahan shows how to switch your user agent on the fly to receive HTML5 video instead of Flash video.

From: BitQuill

Posted Sunday, January 13, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Sync Keyboard Maestro with multiple Macs

Patrick Welker shows in impressive detail how to sync your macros across multiple Macs.

From: Rocket Ink — Writing with Space Ink

Posted Friday, January 11, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Use Keyboard Maestro to Record Something New You Learned Everyday

Brandon Pittman shows a clever macro to force you to record something new you learned each day.

From: Thank You For Your Cooperation

Posted Wednesday, January 9, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Pause/Unpause Dropbox With a Shortcut

Andreas demonstrates the use of the Find Image on Screen facility to show how to control a status menu.

From: MOSX Tumblelog

Posted Wednesday, January 9, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Tip: Appending Clipped Text to DEVONthink Docs with Keyboard Maestro

Greg Jones shows how to use Keyboard Maestro to append text to documents in DEVONthink.

From: DEVONthink Tips and Tricks

Posted Tuesday, January 8, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro and your browser are friends

Patrick Welker continues enlightening Keyboard Maestro users, this time with macros for your browser.

From: Rocket Ink — Writing with Space Ink

Posted Sunday, January 6, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro as OmniFocus's Little Helper

Patrick Welker’s first of many Keyboard Maestro articles, shows how to use it to enhance OmniFocus.

From: RocketINK — Writing with Space Ink

Posted Saturday, January 5, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Make Link with Title from Clipboard

Gordon Meyer shows how he uses Keyboard Maestro in his blogging workflow.

From: Nothing Up My Sleve

Posted Wednesday, January 2, 2013. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽AppleScript: Mail This Selected Item

Ben Brooks continues his series with this article showing how to create a mail message with the selected Finder item.

From: The Brooks Review

Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro Mac OS X Automation

In this YouTube video, David Allen shows how to use Keyboard Maestro to do timed events.

From:

Posted Saturday, December 22, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽All Caps to Title Case

Another in the series from Ben Brooks, this article describes a macro to convert from ALL CAPS to Title Case.

From: The Brooks Review

Posted Friday, December 21, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Append to Evernote Note

Riffing off Ben Brooks’s article, Isko Salminen shows how to append quotes to an Evernote note.

From:

Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Make iTunes Rating Easier with Keyboard Maestro

Gabe shows a couple ways to rate iTunes sounds as they are playing using Keyboard Maestro.

From: MacDrifter — No particular destination.

Posted Sunday, December 16, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Append to Quote File

Ben Brooks continues his brilliant series on Keyboard Maestro with an article showing how to append a quote to a file.

From: The Brooks Review

Posted Monday, December 10, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Navigate Through Photoshop Layers with Keyboard Only

Edward Sanchez shows how to navigate through Photoshop layers using only the keyboard.

From: Photoshop Secrets

Posted Friday, December 7, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Mute commercials on CBS.com

Michael Laccheo shows how to mute commercials and have Keyboard Maestro wait for the logo to disappear and then unmute. Nice!

From: Violent Necessity — so, it’s come to this…

Posted Friday, December 7, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

The Brooks Review Keyboard Maestro Series

Ben Brooks is writing a <a href="http://brooksreview.net/tag/KM-SERIES/>series of articles on Keyboard Maestro</a> - well worth a look.

So far in the series we have:

This is a great series from ben Brooks, and I am very much looking forward to more in the series. Thanks Ben!

Updated Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 12:00 AM. Permalink. Post a Comment.

➽Perl CPAN module to control Keyboard Maestro

Mark Fowler has produced a fantastic new CPAN module that allows you to control Keyboard Maestro, as well as getting and setting variables. Wonderfully useful.

From:

Posted Thursday, November 29, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Really Smart Paste: Keyboard Maestro and BBEdit to fix copied text from on-line database and other sources

Pierre Igot shows how to use Keyboard Maestro to clean up data copied from databases and other sources.

From: Betalogue – Notes from an unfinished world…

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro i data w nazwie pliku

Miłosz Bolechowski describes how to use Keyboard Maestro to add dates to filenames.

From: Fabryka Pikseli

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽A better ‘Tweet from Safari’ Keyboard Maestro Macro

Federico Travaini riffs off the Markdown Library to improve his Tweet from Safari Macro.

From: Spontaneously me

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro Window and Application Switcher

The ever-prolific Gabe describes the application and window switching features built in to Keyboard Maestro.

From: MacDrifter — No particular destination.

Posted Monday, November 26, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro i dyski zewnętrzne

Miłosz Bolechowski shows how to use Keyboard Maestro to mount and unmount external volumes.

From: Fabryka Pikseli

Posted Monday, November 26, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Window Resizing and More with Keyboard Maestro

Devir Kahan describes how he uses Keyboard Maestro to resize and position windows in applications like Safari and the Finder.

From: The Geek’s Companion

Posted Sunday, November 25, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Use Keyboard Maestro to Group + Rename at the Same Time

Another one from Edward Sanchez, this time showing how to gorup a set of layers and name the group at the same time.

From: Photoshop Secrets

Posted Saturday, November 24, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Use Keyboard Maestro to open your Mac’s Keyboard Viewer and Character Viewer

Scott Granneman shows a couple of neat macros that open or close the character or keyboard viewers, also demonstrating the duplicate hot key palette.

From: Chainsaw on a Tire Swing – Blogging with teeth!

Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Keyboard Maestro Macros Repo

A new macro repository from Keyboard Maestro guru Andreas with 108 macros, including his markdown library, as well as macros for the Finder, Mail, OmniFocus, and others.

From: MOSX Tumblelog

Posted Monday, November 19, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Use Keyboard Maestro to Copy/Paste Shape, Colors and Styles

A Photoshop Secrets article by Edward Sanchez showing how to copy/paste shapes, colors and styles in Photoshop.

From: Photoshop Secrets

Posted Sunday, November 18, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Mit Keyboard Maestro (fast) beliebige Aufgaben automatisieren

A german article from Andreas Kalt with a plethora of example macros.

From:

Posted Saturday, November 17, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

➽Using Keyboard Maestro To Do Things My Way

A bunch of Keyboard Maestro macros that Brandon Carroll is using extensively, including:

  • Safari Tabs
  • SecureCRT Tabs
  • Zip and Share
  • Find My Mouse
  • Zoom to Fit in Omnigraffle
  • Hiding Apps when Recording Sceencasts

From: Brandon Carroll — Network and Tech Blogger, Technology Enthusiast, Master Misspeller!

Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.

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