Keyboard Maestro Features and Specifications

Keyboard Maestro 3 is a productivity enhancer with four main functions, allowing you to record and design your own macro shortcuts and activate them at any time, navigate through running applications with Program Switcher and open windows with Window Switcher, and work with an unlimited number of clipboards using Clipboard Switcher.

General

• Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Macros

• Create Macro Groups, sets of Macros targeted at specific applications
• Macros can be triggered from one or more Macro Triggers including:
• • Hot Keys - put Macros at the press of a key
  • Applications - on launch, quit, activate, deactivate, or periodically while an application is running
  • Time - on login, at a particular time of day, or periodically
  • Macro Palette - with a click on a context sensitive Macro Palette
  • Public Web - over the Internet, explicitly to the public, or via authenticated logins
• Create Macro Actions by recording your actions
• Macros can execute a sequence of one or more Macro Actions including:
• • Process Control
  • • Switch to Last, Next or a specific application
    • Quit All, Other or a specific application
    • Hide All, Other or the current application
    • Bring the current application's windows to the front
  • Interface Control
  • • Manipulate the front or a named window - resize, close, zoom, move, minimize
    • Move or click the mouse
    • Select a specific menu item
    • Press a specific button by name
    • Simulate a keystroke
    • Simulate the scroll wheel
  • Control iTunes
  • • Play a specific or random track or a specific Playlist
    • Play or pause
    • Rewind or fast forward
    • Go to the next or previous track
  • Control the System
  • • Sleep, Shutdown, Restart or Log Out
    • Activate screen saver
    • Open/close CD tray
    • Control the system volume and brightness
  • Open a file, folder, URL or system preferences pane
  • Execute an AppleScript or unix script from a file or inline text, optionally displaying the results
  • Execute an Automator workflow
  • Insert text, with token expansion for various time and dates and other system information
  • Copy, Cut or Paste to/from a named permanent clipboard
  • Activate the Program, Window or Clipboard switchers.
  • Record a quick macro without even launching Keyboard Maestro
  • Pause a Macro Action sequence

Program and Window Switcher

• Switch to any application or window with a keystroke
• Easily select the exact application or window you want
• Launch, hide, or quit any application, or close or minimize any window
• Choose the application ordering you want: alphabetically, by last use, or by launch order
• Optionally hide other applications
• Optionally always hide other applications
• Select from various themes

Clipboard Switcher

• An unlimited number of named clipboards
• Copy, Cut or Paste to/from a named clipboard using a single keystroke
• Clipboards are saved across logins and restarts

For an overview of Keyboard Maestro, take the Keyboard Maestro Tour, view some screenshots or watch some movies

For more information about a specific Keyboard Maestro feature consult the Keyboard Maestro Documentation, visit the Keyboard Maestro web site or email us