TouchCursor
TouchCursor lets you use the home keys as cursor keys – in all Windows programs – keeping your fingers in the best position for fast typing. It’s free and open-source.
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Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring
You can do all sorts of interesting things to a misbehaving computer running Linux by holding down Alt + SysRq and whacking various keys.
Via /r/linux
Keystroke
KeyStroke is a Safari extension that provides customizable keyboard shorcuts for common tasks and enhancements.
See also
DefaultKeyBindings
A hefty DefaultKeyBindings.dict file by Brett Terpestra that adds tons of useful text manipulation and Markdown-related keyboard shortcuts to many (most?) OS X apps.
More info; another DefaultKeyBindings.dict by Lri.
Via MacSparky
Launcher
A launcher for OS X—it looks to be a great simple alternative to the more complex/heavyweight alternatives like Alfred, Launchbar or Quicksilver.
Forgive the excursion into hardware, but the MagicWand—a doodad that clips together your Apple Bluetooth keyboard and Magic Trackpad—looks to do one thing very well indeed.
Via MacUser.
Bowtie is a suite of music control apps for iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac and Windows.
The Mac version, which I’ve been using heavily for the last ten days, gives you the keyboard-activated, flippable album art display shown above, a very handy set of keyboard shortcuts for iTunes control, and can send your listening habits to Last.fm.
The iPhone/iPod Touch app is effectively Apple’s Remote in reverse. Using Bowtie on Windows or the Mac, you can control Bowtie on the iOS device: handy if you have a speaker dock or plug your iPhone into your hifi.
Thanks, @enovav.
teleport
teleport lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs. Simply reach an edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your nearby Mac, which also becomes controlled by your keyboard. The pasteboard can be synchronized, and you can even drag & drop files between your Macs.
Apptivate
Apptivate lets you assign a system wide shortcut for any application or script file on your system for easy access any time.
Thanks, Bruno.
actkbd
actkbd is a simple daemon that binds actions to keyboard events. It recognises key combinations and can handle press, repeat and release events.
New Finder Window
Tip: to open a new Finder-window, tab to the Finder-icon in the application switcher, hold the Cmd-key, press the Alt-key, release Cmd-key.
An obscure, unconventional command key combo. I’m not sure it’s any quicker than switching to the Finder and whacking ⌘ + N, but it’s nice to know it’s there!
Update:
@keyboardkitteh reports that the trick ‘works with any app that has no currently open windows, not just Finder’. Let the muscle memory re-training begin.
Update II:
@asheidan points out that the shortcut ‘also works to unminimize minimized windows’.
@jeffunity offers another handy command key combo: ⌘ + ⌥ + Space, which opens a new Finder window with the search bar in focus.
(Source: macintoshing)
xbindkeys
xbindkeys is a program that allows you to launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X Window. It links commands to keys or mouse buttons, using a configuration file. It’s independant of the window manager and can capture all keyboard keys.
