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Comment on Select All and Copy by devananda

devananda — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:45:38 +0000

In keyboard maestro you can do this but even better is “textexpander” which is a seriously awesome app that you can do this kind of thing with

Comment on Creating an App Droplet in Keyboard Maestro by Adam Bell

Adam Bell — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:58:21 +0000

More than welcome, Bakari. I use a lot of little AppleScript apps and I like to be able to distinguish between them at a glance.

Comment on Creating an App Droplet in Keyboard Maestro by Bakari Chavanu

Bakari Chavanu — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:45:05 +0000

Good idea, Adam. Thanks for sharing it.

Comment on Creating an App Droplet in Keyboard Maestro by Adam Bell

Adam Bell — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:59:28 +0000

I don’t like the generic script icon used for AppleScript apps, so I change it. If you look in the YourApp.app > Contents > Resources folder (left-click to get Show Contents on the app icon and dig down), you’ll find an applet.icns file. Using img2icns.app, I convert an image file I like to an icon, rename it applet.icns, and replace the original. Gets me a neat icon that tells me something to identify it in the dock.

Comment on Automatically Print Documents Using a Automator Workflow Application by Bakari Chavanu

Bakari Chavanu — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:37:21 +0000

I don’t think that can be done with Automator. You would need to use Keyboard Maestro for that.

Comment on Automatically Print Documents Using a Automator Workflow Application by just4lizzy

just4lizzy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:11:51 +0000

Is there a way to make the workflow call up the print dialogue?

Comment on Select All and Copy by Bradley Smith

Bradley Smith — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:08:40 +0000

After reading about all the macro programs available, I chose QuicKeys. Unfortunately, the program seems to lack a certain functionality Macro Express for Windows has – either that or I can’t get it to work.

In Macro Express, I could assign a hot key such as ## and then some other letters that would prompt the program to remove that text and type in boilerplate text. For example:

##abw

Would have Macro Express run the macro that would insert the following:

All best wishes,

My Name
Other Text

I have a few others that do the same ##thx for Thanks etc.

QuicKeys doesn’t allow this as far as I can understand. The hot keys are ctl- or option – or fn- This makes it really hard to remember all my boiler text.

Any suggestions?

Comment on How QuicKeys is Better Than Launchbar and Quicksilver by Clark

Clark — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:49:41 +0000

You can mix Launchbar with Quickeys as well to run Quickey shortcuts via Launchbar. The advantage to Launchbar is simply typing part of a name rather than remembering a shortcut key or having to go to a menu.

Comment on Quickeys Macro Pack by Bakari Chavanu

Bakari Chavanu — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:33:20 +0000

Joyce, that's a good question. However I can't answer it. Post it on the QuicKeys support website. They are pretty good about answering questions within 48 hours.

Comment on Quickeys Macro Pack by Joyce Lee

Joyce Lee — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:21:24 +0000

Do you know how to get your quickeys libraries synced between two different computers using dropbox? I can’t seem to figure out which files are referred to by the program when it is running.