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DESCRIPTION
Keyboard Maestro is your hot key solution that allows you to perform a multitude of tasks simply by pressing a keystroke! Keyboard Maestro also incorporates the wildly popular MacOS Classic utility Program Switcher, which allows you to launch, switch, and quit applications with a simple keystroke.

Current hot keys include:

  • Switch to last application
  • Open files
  • Launch URL
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.2:
  • Macro Group options including:
    • Enable contained Macros only immediately after a Hot Key press.
    • Toggle contained Macros with a Hot Key press.
    • Display a floating palette of contained Macros only after a Hot Key press.
    • Toggle display of a floating palette of contained Macros with a Hot Key press.
    • Display a floating palette of contained Macros.
  • Added extensive Help to Macro Group Editor
  • Added Quick Start help to Macros Pane
  • Try Now button tries only selected actions.
  • Script pseudo-trigger.
  • Wake trigger.
  • Login trigger.
  • Added Alert action with Stop/Continue dialog.
  • Support Delete key in Clipboard History Switcher.
  • Allow Macros without any direct triggers.
  • Move Clipboard -> Insert Text action menu item to Text -> Insert Text
  • Disable editing for Global Macro Group.
  • Save & Restore Unix/AppleScript Results Window Size & Position.
  • Save Log files in ~/Library/Log/Keyboard Maestro folder.
  • Remove Macro Group “Never” - replace with Disabled.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Stairways Software
Downloads:13,749
  - Version d/l:289
Utilities:System
License:Shareware
Date:24 Jun 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$36.00
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Keyboard Maestro User Reviews (18 posts)Write A Review
Apr 18 2008

BILL CLINTON  I have used version 1.x for a very long time and love it. However, I never upgraded to 2.x (or now, 3.x) because I feel that I didn't need all of the added features. (I would concur with one person who requested a light version). However, this is all moot as long as the program doesn't use tons of RAM or CPU cycles. Now, I see "built-in web server" and I can't help but think that this version will truly use lots of RAM. Can anyone enlighten me on this? How much RAM does it use?  (Version 3.0.1)

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Apr 17 2008
*****

DONPERREAULT  I had used KM for long time when Michael Kampraph was developing KM. I have used numerous other macro programs in the past few years and have been using iKey for the past year. However, this new version of KM really, really ROCKS! KM's built in web server allows me to launch any one of my numerous macros from my iphone. I can do things that I never expected from a macro program. Many macro utilities seem to not always work. For the past couple weeks I have been putting KM to rigorous testing and it has not failed me yet. The macro capabilities seem endless and the built in server is brilliant. It is freak-in awesome to be able to launch macros from my iphone, from anywhere in the world. I am not affiliated with the developer in anyway, I just think this new version is Brilliant!  (Version 3.0)

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Jul 17 2007

DANA SUTTON  Apologies for that last comment, I later found out that MM allows you to create folders and group your macros however you wish. No nothing but raves for a great app.  (Version 2.1)

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Jul 17 2007
*****

DANA SUTTON  I bought the original Keyboard Maestro and the haxie Fruit Menu the day I first switched to OSX, since they gave me back two features I missed from Classic, the apple menu and the ability to control function keys. Since then I have relied on them every day, and have never had any trouble with either. Since there are much better multi-clipboards out there, such as iClip, I never used that feature of v. 1, nor did I see any need to upgrade to v. 2. I had also used the haxie Menu Master to assign keyboard equivalents to self-created CSS commands with Dreamweaver. All was good until Dreamweaver CS3 was released, Menu Master proved to be incompatible with that version, and Unsanity has so far been unable to resolve the difficulty (for quite a while they even seemed to be in a state of denial about its existence). Then I found out that Keyboard Maestro v.2's macro creation function allows me to do everything I used to do with Menu Master. So buying the upgrade was well worth it. Bye-bye MM! Only quibble: since you can build up a huge library of commands with KM, the window that displays them all can look quite cluttered and confusing. I wish there was a way I could group them by categories.  (Version 2.1)

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