Yeah, I need to do that one of these days. I recommend you make a screencast to show off its abilities. Its primary purpose is to alter the landscape of your Mac so that the results you want, in Mail, the Finder, Safari, whatever, are available at the pressing of a single keystroke. It’s a paring knife where those apps are a cleaver. The biggest difference between FastScripts and these apps is FastScripts doesn’t strive to be a general-purpose launcher. I think this “one stroke and you’re done” approach still has a place, and can make you a lot more productive. A lot of people are familiar with the awesome “everything launchers” such as LaunchBar and Quicksilver, but are increasingly less familiar with the benefits of an old-fashioned “macro” setup. I recently showed off some of my FastScripts tricks to the local CocoaHeads group here in Boston, yielding some oohs and aahs (and one immediate sale!). Oh yeah, it’s particularly good at running scripts quickly, without taking focus away from your target application, and without frustrating you.Built-in “On Screen Display” functionality lets you show nifty Growl-style feedback, even if you don’t run Growl.It installs in your menu bar, but is not a hack.Its context-specific behavior for Applications lets you define shortcuts for just one app, without affecting other apps.Its keyboard shortcuts can replace almost any menu item shortcut in any application, redefining the behavior with a script.Yes, it supports shell scripts, AppleScripts, applications, Automator actions, and can even open documents for you. It lets you open or run (almost) anything, instantly by keystroke.The recurring theme to this feedback is “ I had no idea it could do that!” So let me try to summarize some of FastScripts’s selling points more effectively than the current product page does: Often I get feedback from people who have finally figured out how FastScripts can help them. But it’s still a really big part of my workflow here, and I don’t know what I would do without it! I don’t talk a lot about FastScripts these days, because I’ve been so busy focusing on other applications. Those of you who are using FastScripts with the forthcoming Leopard 10.5 operating system from Apple will want to upgrade to FastScripts 2.3.4, which works better in that environment.
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