QuicKeys 5

Evan M. London

Our friends at CE Software have been up to their old tricks, and an eleven year old friend just gets better and better with age. I love QuicKeys, and honestly feel lost without it when working on QuicKeysless computers. Simply put, QuicKeys 5 allows you to use your keyboard instead of your mouse to perform all kinds of mundane tasks (and not so mundane when you come to think of it). Any Mac user quickly tires of repetitive mousing around and the more time you spend in front of your Mac the more you will come to appreciate this timesaver. As stated in my earlier review of QiucKeys 4 (and before that QuicKeys 3), this is one of the best utilities you can treat yourself to. Visit CE's website or call your favorite catalog and get hold of a copy today.

You can use QuicKeys to "program" your computer to do any number of things with the flip of a couple of keys, keys of your choice I might add. Launch a program with an "F" key (those things along the top of your keyboard you always wondered about). Change a font, change a font size, select any menu item in any program, have QuicKeys record a sequence of menu selections, mouseclicks, whatever, and play that sequence back with a simple keystroke. Set timers and reminders and type text strings effortlessly. Think about how much you do in your everyday work that involves leaving the keyboard to use the mouse to select a menu item over and over. Think how much easier to simply pause and type a keystroke or two and never have your hands leave the keyboard. You can really start flying at this point. And this only begins to scratch the surface of what you can do with QuicKeys 5.

Below I've simply taken some screenshots of the QuicKeys Editor windows. When you close these windows they collapse into a little floating window you can call up simply by clicking on it or you can close it until you choose to open QuicKeys (some folks do not like floating windows; that's what's nice about QuicKeys is that you can use it the way you feel comfortable).

This is what the windows above collapse into when you close them:

Below I am simply defining a File Launch QuicKey which I selected in the Create/View Palette above. Navigate the dialog box to the file or application you wish to launch, next define the keys that will launch it and you're done.

For a more detailed review check out the earlier QuicKeys 4 Review.

QuicKeys 4.0 Review

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