Perth, Western Australia - 12 November 2013 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 6.3, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for Mac OS X.
Version 6.3 enhances the Typed String trigger, with options to support regular expression matching, ignoring diacriticals, matching only after a word break, simulating the deletes before showing a conflict palette, and other tweaks.
This version adds a number of useful tokens, including a new %ActionResult% token to describe the success or failure of actions and new %Trigger%, %TriggerBase%, %TriggerValue% tokens describe the trigger that invoked the macro.
Also new is a Substrings In collection, as well as enhancements to the Lines In collections.
This version adds a bunch of options to the keyboardmaestro: URL to allow controlling the editor from other applications, such as selecting or searching for macros or actions. The gethotkeys AppleScript command also adds a getall option to allow enumerating all currently active macros for integration into other launchers.
Version 6.3 resolves a number of minor bugs, as well as resolving issues with the Volume and Brightness control actions (especially under Mavericks) and reducing the apparent Energy Impact.
Plus a bunch of other minor improvements.
Watch the What's New Video on the home page to see some of the new features.
With over a hundred improvements in version 6.x, there is bound to be something for everyone.
Changes for 6.3
Bug fixes for 6.3
Keyboard Maestro 6.x requires Mac OS X 10.8 or greater.
Keyboard Maestro is engineered by Stairways Software Pty Ltd and distributed by FastSpring. Keyboard Maestro is licensed on a per user basis, and an individual user can use it on five Macs.
New customers can purchase Keyboard Maestro from <http://purchase.keyboardmaestro.com/> for US$36. Customers with five or more users should contact us for a volume discount quote.
Customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro directly from us after October 1, 2012 have been issued a free upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 6. If you have not received your free license, you can find your free license upgrade at <http://enquiry.stairways.com/>.
Customers who purchased any version of Keyboard Maestro directly from us prior to October 2012 can upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 6 for US$25. If you have not received your instructions on how to upgrade, you can find details by looking up your Keyboard_Maestro license at <http://enquiry.stairways.com/>.
Keyboard Maestro 6 is not available from the Mac App Store and probably never will be, but customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro 5 on the Mac App Store can convert their license to a direct license by option clicking the "Mac App Version" text in the Keyboard Maestro about box and following the instructions and will then be eligible for a paid upgrade to version 6 for US$25.
A fully-functional unlicensed trial version of Keyboard Maestro can be downloaded from <http://download.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
For sales enquires, volume purchases, customer service, technical support, or to contact project management, our current contact information is listed at <http://contact.stairways.com/>.
Extensive online documentation on Keyboard Maestro can be found at <http://documentation.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
A brief taste of Keyboard Maestro in action can be found at <http://screenshots.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
For more information about anything to do with Keyboard Maestro visit <http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/>.