Retweet to ADN

I really love ADN. I like that it has many aspects of Twitter but also has great discussions like mailing lists or forums used to have. There are now many free accounts you can get if you ask around. I’ve noticed a lot of the major blogs have been giving them away. I find myself [...]

Copy Finder Selection Paths

I’m quite happy with my recent switch to Keyboard Maestro. I’ll do a full review soon. The following is a fairly obvious script I’m sure most of you use. It simply gets the quoted form of the paths for all the Finder selection and puts it on the clipboard. Since I primarily use this with [...]

Keyboard Maestro Markdown Guide

Ultimate Keyboard Maestro markdown guide. (HT: MacDrifter) I’m not a markdown user but this has some great ideas for organizing KM scripts. The one weakness of KB is keeping many scripts organized. (Not that Quickeys was great either)

Blog Posts on Keyboard Maestro

A nice list of blog posts on using Keyboard Maestro. Lots of Gabe’s posts are listed. Ben Brooks has a nice overview of Keyboard Maestro as well.

Paste and Match Styles WIth Exceptions

Most applications have a “Paste and Match Style” menu command. However most are kind of frustrating. What I typically want to use them for is to paste and have the text be the right font and font size. However these commands remove all style information including bold and italics. I almost always want to match the [...]

What’s With the QuicKeys Delay?

A lot of us have been wondering why there hasn’t been a QuicKeys update in ages. Startly just put up a post about what happened. Apparently the main developer died and they are trying to find someone to take up the development. On the one hand that’s not the best of news as many features [...]

Copy FedEx Tracking Number

OK, I don’t know how many will care about this one. I use FedEx a lot. However every now and then they modify their web site in such a way that it completely screws up my workflow. The latest change is, I suspect, some unfortunate interaction between Safari and FedEx. But it’s amazingly annoying. Basically [...]

Autopairing, Quickeys and BBEdit

  I noticed on Twitter that a few people having been asking about Auto-Pairing and BBEdit. Apparently there is an app, AutoPairs, that will add this feature. I have a different way I added it to my workflow. I figured a few might be intrigued since I do it with Quickeys. First I make an [...]

Shortcut List

I’ve long thought that shortcut and macro programs are fantastic. I used to be a user of iKey, however it got rather buggy there for awhile and updates weren’t applying properly. I ended up switching to Quickeys and have really been extremely happy. Quickeys has a vastly superior interface to iKey and does a lot [...]

Contactizer Pro to FedEx

So one of the things I’ve historically done when dealing with any address book or CRM program is write a program that quickly generates a FedEx packing slip. I do this since I find myself needing to print packing slips all the time. Having to cut and paste bits of addresses and name is just [...]

Combining Scripting and Quickeys

One reason I switched my macro program of choice from iKey to Quickeys (beyond some reliability issues) was Quickeys’ ability to store shortcuts and then call the shortcut via Applescript.  If you’ve ever spent hours trying to figure out how to script something using GUI scripting simply because Applescript support was lacking you can probably [...]

Switching to Quickeys

Way back in the 90′s before the Mac operating system became a complete unstable joke and I moved to Windows one of my favorite programs was Quickeys. I remember using it first with LightSpeed Pascal and the later with CodeWarrior C to automate a ton of macros. It was great. I truly missed it when [...]