If you are into Apple Scripting or just anything on a Mac that involves pressing keys you may need keycodes. Key codes are the decimal numeric number that matches a key on your keyboard. For example the letter “j” is keycode 38.Every letter I type the key code numbers (usually in hex-decimal) is being sent through my computer in various places. This post is going to show you a good little application that can show you the key code for the key your are pressing.
I have an ever growing fascination of getting my Mac to perform better, faster and being more efficient. One of best tasks to to perform tasks to clear caches, repair disk permissions as well as other tasks such as removing log files, and clearing temporary files. Most of these tasks involve hundreds of different methods and programs and is frankly a bit complicated. Thankfully a cool little menu bar program has been developed which groups all of these tasks into one area, as well as giving you a handy shortcut to do them all at the same time. This program, if you haven’t guessed by the title, is called MainMenu, a little app that is designed to run in the menu bar of your Mac.
Quite a while ago I reviewed Delicious Library. It is one of my favorite apps for the Mac and it really shows how powerful a Mac can be. Well, Delicious Library 2 has been released, again a while ago. This is going to be a comparison and review post from the previous application.
I don’t usually link to many sites from this blog. I don’t no why. But this post by Gated Logic really caught my eye, so I decided to share it with you. You should know by now that keychain, located in Utilities > Keychain Access is used to store the passwords and other security features used by your applications. For example Safari stores password in there (I wishFirefox did) as well as other third party applications.
Quite a while ago I mentioned Email BackUp Pro from MacUpdate. This deal enabled you to grab that program for a really cheap price and it was quite good. A lot of time has passed since then and not many decent apps have popped up that Ithought would warrant your attention. Today a decent one did come up and I really like it, as well as this it is pretty cheap, you don’t want to be spending a lot of money. This program is called Peek-A-Boo it is similar to Activity Monitor, but has a couple of different features that make it interesting to use and slightly different from the norm.
I love short cuts. They make my life so much easier and much more efficient. Hence why they are called shortcuts. But learning shortcuts is hard. You can either read the documentation or go through every single menu options until you find something you need. Even better you can find them from me. One of the best applications I have found and has vastly become one of my favorites is KeyCue from ergonis. It is designed to show you every single shortcut available to you in your given program.
