A fantastic little utility I just can't do without. It runs circles around similar programs, all the way through Lion. This is definitely the little engine that could.

a little gem!

This is one terrific program. I could go on about how great it is but I'm sure that others have already done this.

However, there is one feature of the program that might not catch everyone's attention, and that is, there is an option, set per program, that when that program is selected to become the front application, only its active window is brought to the front. I investigated many if not most of the competing programs and none had this feature. This is really important because without it, when a program is told to become the front program, _all_ of its windows come to the front, obscuring the windows of the previously front program and any other programs whose windows you might want to see. Some might argue that this is a trade-off, a personal preference. Indeed. And that is why it is a checked option in Spark. If you really want all of a program's windows to come to the front, there is a super simple solution: Use the Keyboard preference pane's Keyboard Shortcuts feature and for All Applications, add a line Bring All to Front and assign it a keyboard shortcut: Shift-Option-Command-UpArrow works fine and does not conflict with anything.

I am using Spark on my mac since May of last year. Since then, i use it to paste my email adress with the paste shortcut. The Character "C" is always missing when the paste is executed. I wrote to Mr. Dugas about this issue. He asked me to increase the execution delay from 3 to 10ms. I tried all delays till 500ms, but nothing changed. "C" is always skipped during the execution. What could be the problem? And how to reach the solution?

Years ago, I paid for software to manage keyboard shortcuts; with Spark, the interface is even simpler - and it works effectively in the background, out of view. For me, it's uber stable, and setting up the short-cuts shouldn't take more than five minutes. And its free - the best price. Nice software.

no idea what i'm doing wrong with all versions lately issued: the app always would quit right after launching - as much as i would like to try it out:

PPC G4 Quicksilver 2001, 733 Mhz 640 MB RAM OS X 10.4.11 (iKey not active when launching Spark)

This won't accept Control-Spacae as a shortcut. I am trying to dump Quicksilver triggers for iTunes as they are kind of shaky, but I want to keep my shortcuts.