![]() Play/Pause toggle from playing to pausing or vice-versa. Play Random Song From Titled Playlist play a random song from a specified Playlist. Play Random Song From Library play a random song. Play Titled Playlist play the songs in a specified Playlist. The actions are: Play Titled Song play a specified song. All actions will launch iTunes if it is not already running. ITunes Control actions allow you to interact with iTunes, playing songs, stopping or pausing, rewinding or fast-forwarding. Simulate Scroll Wheel simulate scrolling the mouse wheel up or down. Simulate Key Press simulate pressing a specified keystroke. Press Button press a specified button in the front window. Select Menu Item select a specified menu item in the front or a specified application. ![]() You can specify modifiers such as the shift key, as well as the position, relative to any corner of the front window, the main screen, or the current mouse location. Move or Click Mouse move, click or move and click the mouse. The actions are: Manipulate Window resize, move, bring to front, close, zoom, or minimize the front window or a specified window. ![]() Interface Control actions allow you to interact with the user interface, selecting menus, clicking buttons, simulating key presses and so forth. Hide Specific Application hides the specified application. Quit Other Applications hides all foreground applications except the current one, optionally honoring the excluded application list. Hide All Applications hides all foreground applications, optionally honoring the excluded application list. Quit Specific Application quits the specified application. Quit Other Applications quits all foreground applications except the current one, optionally honoring the excluded application list. Quit All Applications quits all foreground applications, optionally honoring the excluded application list. Bring Application Windows Forward brings the all the windows of the current application to the front. Activate Specific Application launches if necessary and brings the specified application to the front. Switch to Next Application switches to the next application (as defined by the Program Switcher sorting method). The actions are: Switch to Last Application switches back to the previous application you were in. Process Control actions allow your to switch, quit, or hide applications. There are many powerful Macro Actions available for your use, and you can sequence them together to perform complex tasks. There are many actions to choose from (detailed below), some simple actions, for example Sleep Computer, require no other information and simply do their job, while other more complex actions, for example Select Menu Item, require you to specify more information, such as a target application or menu name. In total they cost €72, a bargin in my book.A Macro executes a sequence of Macro Actions in series. Using a computer without these three applications make me feel encumbered and slow. There are a couple of apps that does this, I picked Typinator because it work in all applications and it’s very stable. If I type “tel” Typinator expands that to my phone number, “MAc OS X” becomes “Mac OS X” and “belive” becomes “believe”. Typinator insert common strings for me as well as auto-correcting typing errors. With the Keyboard Maestro iPhone app you can execute commands on your computer from anywhere. I also use it to remap commands, give shortcuts to AppleScripts, control iTunes etc. Keyboard Maestro makes all my F-keys do something useful. It gives you access to more or less everything on your computer with a very few keystrokes. It may have started out as a simple launcher but today LaunchBar is a lot more. LaunchBar is under active development and it’s both fast and stable. LaunchBar 5 has since a few month replaced the discontinued Quicksilver for me. LaunchBar from Objective Developments €24.I have made my way through a substantial list of automation software over the years.
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