O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter has posted the most definitive article I’ve ever seen on attaching keyboard shortcuts to scripts: Hit-and-Run: Launching AppleScripts With Keyboard Shortcuts Jochen Wolters explains the why and the how in brilliant detail. Of course, I’m also excited that his description of the how settles on FastScripts and QuickSilver as the best choices. I […]

FastScripts 2.3.2 has been released, and contains a few very significant bug fixes: Support for aliases to folders in script hierarchy! Improve performance of syncing changes to script folders Fix display of keyboard shortcuts on non-US keyboard layout Avoid adding menu item separators for empty script folders This was easily the most difficult bug-fix release […]

In the years since I first started developing FastScripts, all manner of keyboard-shortcut type solutions have popped up, including the enormously ambitious Quicksilver, and the refined, trigger-action-oriented Butler. But some of us still appreciate FastScripts for its simplicity. Put scripts in the standard Apple-location, cmd-select them from the FastScripts menu, and assign a keystroke. FastScripts […]

I’ve been sitting on this release too long, because of a very minor unreproducible (harmless!) bug that I’m trying to track down. Anyway, there’s no reason to hold out any longer. Those of you wanting to use the Tab, Escape, and Return keys in your script keyboard shortcuts will be happy with this release! FastScripts […]