Very useful utility.

2017-04-02 Thread Gary Price
Afternoon everyone! If some people know about this utility already then I do apologise. Thanks to the Applevis podcasts, I've discovered an excellent utility on the Mac called Keyboard commander. This lets you assign any key to a command for performing certain actions. It also lets you change th

Re: Very useful utility.

2017-04-02 Thread Kliphton Miller
Yes, I have been using this since 2011, and also write about it on my group blog Peeltheapple.wordpress.com It is nice though. > On Apr 2, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Gary Price wrote: > > Afternoon everyone! > > If some people know about this utility already then I do apologise. > > Thanks to the Apple

Re: Very useful utility.

2017-04-02 Thread christopher hallsworth
Hi Gary. Just an FYI, this has been around ever since I first used the mac back in 2012. Nothing new here, but definitely overlooked since it's buried within the VoiceOver Utility. Also, it is probably used less now caps lock can be used as the VoiceOver modifier since OS X 10.11 Yosemite. Than

Re: Very useful utility.

2017-04-02 Thread christopher hallsworth
Sorry, let me reply with some more here. Keyboard Commander can also be toggled on and off anywhere with a keystroke. Either control-option-shift-k or caps lock-shift-k. Finally, by default, some commanders are provided, such as one to speak the time and date, one to announce how many unread me

Re: Very useful utility.

2017-04-02 Thread Kliphton Miller
Also, I don’t see how the caps lock key as a modifier has anything to do with this subject. The caps lock key can’t launch pages or numbers for me with a single keystroke. It can’t open safari for me, and it sure can’t tell me the time. I am one that is against the caps lock key as a modifier