Keyboard Maestro Tips 1

This is the sequel to our Keyboard Maestro review I did recently. It turns out Keyboard Maestro is so useful, that I made another screencast about it. (And I’m already planning even another one on using Keyboard Maestro) Because it’s just sooo useful.
So here’s a little breakdown on Keyboard Maestro‘s feature set:

• Trigger Macro’s in Keyboard Maestro via: Hot key, typed string, applications, login, time, wake, Macro Palette, status menu, public web, device key, MIDI note
• Macro Actions can be: Process control; interface control; control iTunes; control QuickTime player; control system; open files, folders, URLs; execute scripts (Applescript, Shell, Automator Workflow); insert text; control the clipboard; activate programs, windows, etc.; Growl messages, system beeps, etc.

Things Shown in This Screencast

In this screencast I’ll show how we, easily, can get rid off some menubar icons and optimize some of our day-to-day workflows using Keyboard Maestro

• Fast User Switch
• Share on Dropbox
• iTunes
  • iTunes remote
  • Current iTunes track
• Toggle Bluetooth

After this screencast you can remove the Fast User Switch icon and Bluetooth from the menubar. As well as having a brandnew shiny iPhone iTunes controller which interacts with Growl.

AppleScripts

The scripts mentioned in this screencast can be downloaded from here:

Keyboard Maestro Tips 1 Scripts

7 Responses to “Keyboard Maestro Tips 1”

1. Alan Schmitt says:

   05-09-2010 at 08:32 am

   Great tips! Please keep them coming.
2. Schwedenstar says:

   05-10-2010 at 03:56 pm

   Hallo und ein RIESEN Kompliment.

   a) zu Deinem TUT b) zu einem wirklich genialten Prog, wie ich glaube

   Besteht eigentlich die Möglichkeit per “KM” schnell den Anmeldebildschirm aufzurufen ?

   Zur Zeit benutze ich “Lock Desktop”.

   Immer weiter so !!!!!
3. Timm says:

   05-17-2010 at 01:34 pm

   Sieht ganz interessant aus, aber auch wahnsinnig kompliziert (wenn mans richtig ausnutzen will)

   Btw. Hab dich mal zur Blogroll hinzugefügt :)

   (Warum funktioniert eigentlich TextExpander nicht in den author, mail und url Feldern bei dir?)
4. EtherealMind says:

   06-14-2010 at 09:53 am

   In this article your Applescript references a shell script to actually disable the Bluetooth. This is the line from your Applescript.

   set cmd to do shell script blueutilPath & ” status”

   This isn’t working, and I can’t find any other information about this script. Do you have it handy ?
5. Zettt says:

   06-14-2010 at 11:42 am

   No/Yes That lince references blueutilPath which is a property one line above that line is:

   property blueutilPath : "/usr/local/bin/blueutil"

   Could you tell me what

   /usr/local/bin/blueutil status

   gives you? It should say something like “Status: on” or “off”
6. Bob says:

   10-09-2010 at 11:34 am

   Hallo Zettt, schade das du irgendwie gar nicht mehr hier aktiv bist, die eine Diskussion um das Gewinnsystem hat dir wohl die Lust kaputt gemacht, oder?

   Gibt es eigentlich gar keine anderen Autoren, die hier aktiv sind? :/

   Liebe Grüße, Bob
7. Zettt says:

   10-09-2010 at 07:35 pm

   Hmm…hast du diese Ankuendigung hier gelesen, dass ich Sommerpause mache? http://www.macosxscreencasts.com/news/geburtstags-special-urlaub-und-vielen-dank/

   Wahrscheinlich auch diesen Screencast hier verpasst: http://www.macosxscreencasts.com/tutorial/der-twitter-screencast-i-welche-funktionen-hat-twitter/