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Tag: Quicksilver

  • Switch Between Keyboards on Mac

    Say you have different keyboard layouts cause you’re bilingual and need access to accents or different alphabets. The normal way to switch between these two keyboards would be to show the keyboard icon on the top Menu bar and simply click on the icon and choose the keyboard layout you wish to use. Although this…

  • Load Bookmarks with Quicksilver Mac Application Loader

    Quicksilver from Blacktree Software is a free Mac OS X program loader / launcher / starter. By launcher, I mean, it’s a way to start or run a program on your computer without using the mouse or trackpad. By setting up your favorites within Firefox or Safari or Camino in a certain way, you can…

  • Focus to Menu Bar Not Working

    Here’s a bizarre problem: All of a sudden I couldn’t hit the Ctrl F2 keyboard shortcut to set focus to the menu bar. It wasn’t because the shortcut was disabled through Ctrl F1 (by default the functions for keys F2 to F6 are disabled by default), it was due to some bizarre problem with Quicksilver…