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Point two: Keyboard Maestro 6.0 is now out for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and Peter Lewis of Stairways Software has added a cornucopia of welcome new features, some of which simply make Keyboard Maestro easier to use, whereas others extend its capabilities. So, point one: Keyboard Maestro rocks, and if youвЂ™re not using it, I can guarantee youвЂ™re wasting time (Keyboard Maestro even estimates how much time youвЂ™re saving - IвЂ™m up to 880 hours since the calculation appeared in 2008). ItвЂ™s just copying and pasting between two apps, but Keyboard Maestro turns an annoying and error-prone task into an entirely accurate set of steps that takes only seconds. Another macro juggles that copied text and pastes it into the associated fields in the iTunes Producer app for submission to the iBookstore. For instance, one macro expertly alternates between simulating Tab and Command-C in Firefox to copy specific fields from a Web page used to build pages on the Take Control site. Other macros do non-trivial bits of work for me and tie together multiple programs, often in ways that arenвЂ™t possible with AppleScript or Automator. Those infinitesimal bits of time are like the energy drain from glowing lights on otherwise inactive electronics - meaningless in the individual instance, but vast in their overall impact. Similarly, as much as I love LaunchBar, opening BBEdit with the F1 key triggering a Keyboard Maestro macro is a third of the work of LaunchBarвЂ™s Command-Space, B, Return.

Just because IвЂ™m saving only a few seconds doesnвЂ™t mean that itвЂ™s not worthwhile, when added up over tens of thousands of messages.

In fact, many of my macros are utterly simple and obvious - I could type вЂњcheersвЂ¦ -AdamвЂќ at the end of every email message I send, or I could press Control-period. DonвЂ™t assume that such automation requires programming, though, at least beyond the most obvious of levels in which you tell the computer to perform Action A, followed by Action B, and so on. After all, computers excel at performing boring, repetitive, and tedious tasks perfectly each time, and do so far faster than we could do them ourselves manually. IвЂ™m always amazed when I see someone who considers themselves a Macintosh power user not using a macro utility like Keyboard Maestro.

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