Making its appearance again in Mountain Lion is the ability to assign a keyboard shortcut that'll enter an outgoing email account for a message you are composing in Mail. This feature was available in ...

Mac OS X: FastScripts is a lightweight microapp that makes it really easy to access you AppleScripts from your Mac menubar. It provides you with access to scripts in multiple locations and let you ...

We love keyboard shortcuts. They let us work faster and get things done easily. Do you know that you can assign a custom keyboard shortcuts to the browser extensions you have installed on Google ...

For that you will need FastScripts, which gives you everything the standard 'Scripts' menu offers, plus the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts. To assign a keyboard shortcut, open FastScript's ...

A few days ago, I stumbled upon this new application in the Mac App Store called Apptivate, sold at $2.99. Reading through the app’s description, I learned that it was an easy tool to assign keyboard ...

As longtime Mac Gems readers have likely deduced, I love keyboard shortcuts. If I can access a function more quickly or more easily, I’m all for it. I’m also a big fan of contextual menu plugins—being ...

Creating custom keyboard shortcuts in Excel can significantly enhance productivity by allowing users to perform tasks more quickly. By creating custom keyboard shortcuts tailored to your specific ...

Computers excel at repetitive tasks. So why are you opening the same menus and submenus, looking for the same commands again and again? OS X lets you assign keyboard shortcuts to menu commands so you ...

Macs have some great built-in keyboard shortcuts, but if you want to create custom or global shortcuts that perform more complicated tasks, you'll need to do a little extra legwork. Here's how to turn ...

Keyboard shortcut keys let you allow commands to run after users press a key combination. You use the VB.NET "keydown" event handler to detect that a key was pressed by a user, and create your ...

To hide a folder, create the folder, right-click it, select "Properties," enable "Hidden," and choose Apply > OK. Create a shortcut to the folder, right-click it, select "Properties," click "Shortcut ...