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Two Keyboard Maestro scripts that start and stop time in a calendar named “Work”. I use this instead of a separate app and I’m fairly happy, because I don’t need to complicate my life and to bill clients. (Although you could also do the last step by writing some additional scripts that analyze the calendar).
Updated Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
While browsing my Application folder on my Mac, I noticed something. I have a fondness for some apps that I rarely use. I’m just glad that I own them. I may not use them all but I feel good about the money I’ve spent.
If I like a developer I buy their wares just to support their work. When I say “I like a developer” I don’t just mean I like their products. I mean that I like the people behind the products. I like the philosophy, the commitment, the personalities. Sure, I’ll buy software and services from people I think are ass-hats if they make polished high quality stuff. But I’m more likely to buy less awesome software from someone I like than I am to buy highly polished stuff from a jerk. This is especially true in the Indie Software scene. There are real people behind every pixel and algorithm.
Rather than highlight bad players, I’ll call out some of the greats along with the software I own from them. If you’re on your way to Macworld (iWorld) stop by some booths and thank these people. Better yet, but some kick-ass software.
From: MacDrifter — The Best and Worst of the Mac and iOS.
Posted Friday, January 13, 2012. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
What is Keyboard Maestro? When we got a copy for review, which was a while ago, it was difficult for us to really determine what the true power and potential of this app was. It wasn't like other apps that addressed an explicit requirement. It took us a while to really comprehend the power of this app and over this period, the true power of Keyboard Maestro has really dawned on us enabling us to base this review more on personal experience.
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Posted Friday, December 23, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
A quick little tutorial about how to make an applet in Keyboard Maestro.
An applet acts like an application. While most of the automations you build in Keyboard Maestro are triggered by either a keyboard shortcut, an application, typed string, or through the Keyboard Maestro status menu, you can also create an applet for any Keyboard Maestro macro and launch it say from your Dock as you would an application or file.
This article describes how to do it.
Posted Monday, December 12, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
After laying some basic groundwork on the joy that is keyboard shortcuts, I want to take things to the next level and hopefully help you step up your game. While built-in shortcuts are great, they are limited. They usually only handle a single action, they are often limited to a single app and, annoyingly, the same functions tend to differ from application to application. Thankfully for us, we have a tool to solve each and every one of these problems in Keyboard Maestro, an app that manages to be powerful while remaining easy for even a novice to use.
So far, I am yet to find an easier way for a novice to start automating their workflows than Keyboard Maestro
What once took a minute, now takes seconds.
Posted Tuesday, December 6, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
A common workflow for me was to open a previously saved document and use it as my template for a new document. I would make changes to it and then save it a as a new document. To Save As meant you took the document you were working on and saved it as a new document in its current state while discarding those changes from the original and leaving that original document as it was. I used Save As all the time.
But in Lion, the ability to Save As is gone. Sadly, Command+Shift+S gets you nothing.
And so, by harnessing the power of Keyboard Maestro, I set up Command+Shift+S as a “Save As Hack”.
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Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
In this episode Katie and David get geeky with the automation and macro creation program Keyboard Maestro. For this episode, we’re joined special guest and Keyboard Maestro guru, Gabe Weatherhead aka MacDrifter.
From: Creating Mac Power Users, one geek at a time since 2009
Posted Monday, November 28, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
Here’s another example using variables in Keyboard Maestro except this time I’m going to perform a calculation with variables right in the macro.
Here’s a macro to determine the change in coordinates of a mouse cursor. Placing a mouse cursor at one corner hitting the macro action and then moving the mouse and hitting return provides a text box with the change in coordinates of the mouse cursor. I created this after I needed to figure out how wide an onscreen object was. It’s not fancy, but it works and I don’t need another application installed.
From: MacDrifter — The Best and Worst of the Mac and iOS.
Posted Saturday, November 26, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
This might make the bash people out there smile a little bit. If you love the push and pop functions on unix, this pair of macros bring both to the OS X Finder.
From: MacDrifter — The Best and Worst of the Mac and iOS.
Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
I was recently wasting some time playing with an idea. I wanted an easy and quick way to grab some text in any arbitrary application and pop over to MultiMarkdown Composer to do some editing. I also wanted a way to pop the text back into the original app when I was done.
Well, there’s an easy way to do this with Keyboard Maestro and it involves a bit of variable magic. So why not learn a little something about my favorite macro application?
This solution is two separate macros. The first macro grabs the text and the name of the application. The second macro takes the edited text and returns to the original app for insertion.
From: MacDrifter — The Best and Worst of the Mac and iOS.
Posted Monday, November 21, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
In the latest Mac Geek Gab (Premium edition), John and Dave recommend Keyboard Maestro to use the "Insert" key when on a MacBook without such a key.
This Mac Geek Gab might break a record, with your two favorite geeks diving through more Mac and iOS tips and questions than ever before. Buckle up, subscribe (of course!), download and enjoy!
From: More Mac & iOS Tips Than You Can Shake a Stick At!
Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
Today we lost Steve Jobs, the man who, at least for many of us, has shaped the technological world we live in.
People credit him as being a great visionary, and there is no doubt he was that, but I think far more importantly he was a great executionary. Lots of people have great ideas, but he had an amazing ability to force those ideas into reality almost by sheer will power.
My favourite Steve Jobs quote has always be “real artist ship” — ideas are useless until they are turned into real things in the hands of real people.
Goodbye Steve.
Posted Thursday, October 6, 2011. Permalink. Post a Comment.
Twitterrific does a nice job supporting Twitter Lists, bu there are no keyboard shortcuts to switch your timeline view to look at them. This article shows how to add these shortcuts.
Posted Thursday, September 29, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
An article describing how to add Lion’s Versions support to other applications, including how to use Keyboard Maestro to save automatically every thirty seconds.
From: TUAW is a website devoted to tips, reviews, news, analysis and opinion on everything Apple.
Posted Sunday, September 25, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
An article showing how to add ‘Save As’ functionality back to Lion applications.
From: Betalogue — Notes from an unfinished world…
Posted Thursday, September 22, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
An article combining the Mail favorites and Keyboard Maestro to get shortcuts for filing messages.
From: Betalogue — Notes from an unfinished world…
Posted Friday, September 9, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
A macro and python script to convert natural language text dates into fully formatted dates.
From: MacDrifter — The Best and Worst of the Mac and iOS.
Posted Monday, August 22, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
A few tips for inspiring new uses of Keyboard Maestro including some Markdown markup macros.
From: Philip's weblog — writing about Apple or technology in general.
Posted Monday, August 15, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
A nice description of how Keyboard Maestro can create a streamlined writing platform and workflow.
Posted Monday, August 15, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.
An article describing how to deal with lots of services and too many triggers.
From: MacDrifter — The Best and Worst of the Mac and iOS.
Posted Saturday, August 13, 2011. Permalink. Source Link. Post a Comment.