defaults write com.apple.iTunes NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Target Search Field" "@F"

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from Kaush's Journal http://journal.kaush.co Author: kaush Date: May 19, 2012 at 03:19PM

KeyStroke is a Safari extension that provides customizable keyboard shorcuts for common tasks and enhancements

jwerty is a JS lib which allows you to bind, fire and assert key combination strings against elements and events. It normalises the poor std api into something easy to use and clear.

jwerty is a small library, weighing in at around 1.5kb bytes minified and gzipped (~3kb minified). jwerty has no dependencies, but is compatible with jQuery, Zepto or Ender if you include those packages alongside it.

Synergy is Free and Open Source Software that lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers, where each computer has it's own display. No special hardware is required, all you need is a local area network. Synergy is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Issues: Latest fixed
FAQs: User, Developer
News/updates: Blog, Twitter
Mailing lists: User, Developer
Nightly build: Console, Builders, Packages
Major features
Move your mouse easily between computers
Requires nothing other than existing ethernet
Copy and paste between your computers
No need to press any buttons (unlike KVM)
You can still use multiple monitors on the same computer
Lock the mouse to one screen

Spectacle is a simple utility that allows you to easily organize your windows without using a mouse.
Those familiar with similar apps will find Spectacle to be a simple and unobtrusive way to become more productive while using your Mac. Using Spectacle you can view multiple documents side-by-side, move windows to other displays, or even focus your full attention to a single task.
Download your copy and enjoy!
Features
Using Spectacle you can move and resize your windows with the following actions:
Center / Cmd + Alt + C
Fullscreen / Cmd + Alt + F

Left Half / Cmd + Alt + ←
Right Half / Cmd + Alt + →
Top Half / Cmd + Alt + ↑
Bottom Half / Cmd + Alt + ↓

Upper Left Corner / Cmd + Ctrl + ←
Lower Left Corner / Cmd + Shift + Ctrl + ←
Upper Right Corner / Cmd + Ctrl + →
Lower Right Corner / Cmd + Shift + Ctrl + →

Left Display / Cmd + Alt + Ctrl + ←
Right Display / Cmd + Alt + Ctrl + →
Top Display / Cmd + Alt + Ctrl + ↑
Bottom Display / Cmd + Alt + Ctrl + ↓

Undo / Cmd + Alt + Z
Redo / Cmd + Shift + Ctrl + Z

A very simple API to add global shortcuts to your application! — Read more
http://www.degutis.org/

Tutorials¶

Vimperator includes a simple tutorial with :help tutorial.

More tutorials -- also in foreign languages -- can be found here:

* Hack and / - Dr hjkl Meets the Vimperator: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10636
* How to control Firefox using Vim keybindings: http://www.linux.com/feature/114419
* French tutorial (tutoriel en Français): http://bepo.fr/wiki/Vimperator
* Spanish tutorial (tutorial en Español): http://neurohost.org/index.php/Linux:Vimperator
* Hungarian tutorial: http://portal.linuxempire.hu/node/57

Other resources for learning Vimperator¶

* Visual map of the most basic commands: http://simplicityroad.livejournal.com/1938.html
* Interactive clickable cheat sheet which teaches many commands: http://vi.shiar.net/vimperator
* Another cheat sheet: http://www.cheat-sheets.org/#FirefoxAddOns
* Cheatsheat (and mappings) for colemak layout users: http://vimperator.org/trac/ticket/257 FIXME!

Other references¶

* http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/vimperator-hardcore-firefox-addon-minimalists/

Abracode
Website: http://www.abracode.com/free/cmworkshop/

What is it?
Shortcuts is a Mac OS X application to assign hot keys to contextual menu items. It works only with menu items added by contextual menu plug-ins. Version 2.0 also allows you to display a menu with items added by CM plug-ins.

Requirements
Mac OS 10.5 or higher.
Some useful contextual menu plug-ins highly recommended.
In Mac OS 10.6 Shortcuts is the only method to use contextual menu plug-ins in 64 bit applications.

Introduction
Ever wanted to assign a hot key combination to contextual menu item? "Shortcuts" is the answer. It allows you to assign a hot key combination to chosen menu item so you can select some object (file in Finder or text) and hit keyboard combination to execute the task normally performed by choosing that menu item.
Shortcuts works with contextual menu plug-ins only. It does not work with menu items added by the application which shows the menu. For example, when you ctrl-click on Desktop in Finder you have "New Folder" and other items added by Finder. You cannot assign shortcuts to those items. But the same contextual menu also shows some items added by plug-ins — in default Mac OS 10.4 installation it would see Automator and folder actions items which are added by Apple-provided plug-ins — and you can assign shortcuts to those items. Of course you probably need to have some third party contextual menu plug-ins installed to make good use of "Shortcuts". But even if you used it only for one frequently used item it would be worth installing and getting the benefits of much faster execution.
Unfortunately not all contextual menu plug-ins will work with "Shortcuts". Only contextual menu items which play by the rules will work. So what are the rules? The rules are: when the context information (selected text of file information) is passed to the contextual menu plug-in, it should advertise available commands by returning the menu item name. It seems obvious but some plug-ins do it in a different way. They do not provide the names of their contextual menu items when asked and they try to add those items to menu later. You will not be able assign shortcuts to those items because in most cases they will not show up at all when "Shortcuts" tries to query all plugins. Another class of problematic plug-ins are those which restrict their visibility to certain applications only — for example some plug-ins may show only in Finder. In such case "Shortcuts" will not see their items.

Vimperator is a Firefox browser extension with strong inspiration from the Vim text editor, with a mind towards faster and more efficient browsing. It has similar key bindings and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in. For example, it has a special Hint mode, where you can follow links easily with the keyboard only. Also most functionality is available as commands, typing :back will go back within the current page history, just like hitting the back button in the toolbar.

But Vimperator is more than just a simple command interface to Firefox — it is a complete development environment as well. If you are a web developer, you can enjoy an interactive JavaScript shell — even with completion support. Or if you want to extend Vimperator, you can easily do that by just dropping a JavaScript file in its plugin directory. Browse through our wiki pages for nice tips to customize Vimperator and for frequently asked questions. If you have more questions, you can visit us on IRC, in #vimperator on freenode.

" Unbind the cursor keys in insert, normal and visual modes. for prefix in ['i', 'n', 'v'] for key in ['<Up>', '<Down>', '<Left>', '<Right>'] exe prefix . "noremap " . key . " <Nop>" endfor endfor

More tips from thoughtbot about using vim, but this time with an emphasis on fitting it into your life.

Seeing that I refuse to be tied down by the shackles of corded peripherals, I use an Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Mouse. Unfortunately we had an issue with our rechargeable batteries this week and I was left without a functioning mouse. Rather than go buy more batteries I decided to try to get by with just my keyboard, which worked out surprisingly well.

Apple’s Cocoa text system is a complicated beast, but also extremely flexible, and with a bit of work, it can be molded to match many working styles. This how-to covers the 2 major ways of customizing the text input system: Default key bindings, and for still more control, input managers.

I’m writing this guide because nothing like it currently exists. There is incredible room for flexibility in customizing the Cocoa text environment, but most users—even power-users—have no idea of the available options. This is mostly because Apple’s documentation is 1) aimed at developers, and 2) often incomplete or ambiguous. Most users have no idea that they can look at a file which describes all of the shortcuts on the system, and that they can easily add their own shortcuts, or replace existing ones with differing functionality.

For instance, one of the most common complaints from new Windows and Linux/Unix switchers is that many of the shortcuts they are used to, such as using the Home and End keys to move to the beginning, respectively end, of a line or document, don’t work as they expect in OS X.

For new users, almost every text box you use is a Cocoa text box (or close enough to act the same as far as we’re concerned) — Safari web form boxes, the text field in iChat for sending new messages, the documents in Pages or TextEdit, the email composer in Mail, etc. Note: Some text boxes are not Cocoa however, so the tricks in this article still aren’t completely universal. Notably, Microsoft Word, Adobe applications, AppleWorks, and the text fields in Camino and Firefox won’t work with this hint.

I expect that all users of OS X can get something out of this guide. I’m starting with the basics, so that new users, unfamiliar with the terminal and the intricacies of OS X can be brought up to speed. But even the most experienced users should hopefully learn something from this article; I know I learned several new nifty things while writing it.

Disclaimer: it is possible, when mucking around with the text system, to send applications messages they aren’t expecting. This can cause them to crash. As long as you stick to standard text selectors, you should be fine, but I’m not responsible if your program crashes because of a binding you add.

Today I’ll talk about getting around in your projects. First up: moving between tabs in the project window.

To switch to the tab to either side of the current one you can use ⌥⌘← and ⌥⌘→, and to move directly to a tab simply press ⌘ and a number from 1-9. You can use the mouse to reposition tabs to move related files next to each other, to make switching easier.

The star of the show today is:

Go to file

Display this window by using Navigation → Go to File…, or by pressing ⌘T.

Much like the bundle item search window, here you enter a query which matches against the files in the project, and you can press ↩ to open that file. It also remembers query/file combinations, so that you can easily get to files you use often – and as an added bonus, it shows the files in the order they were last used, which means you can easily switch to the last file/tab you were in by pressing ⌘T and then ↩.

Note: Pressing the disclosure arrow at the bottom left of the window will allow you to set up additional filtering by extension for the files displayed in the list.

Another very useful function is the Navigation → Go to Header/Source, bound to ⌥⌘↑ – this moves to the next file in the project with the same base name (without the extension) as the current file. For example, when working on a controller file example.php and a template file example.tpl, (or an implementation file example.c and a header file example.h) then ⌥⌘↑ will switch between them.

One last little tip: you can press ⌃⌘R to select (Reveal) the current file in the project drawer. One nice use for this is when we want to do an SVN commit on the current file only, so we can just do ⌃⌘R ⌃⇧A. Also, you can use ⌃⇥ to switch the focus to the project drawer, this is useful when doing a commit of the whole project, i.e. ⌃⇥ ⌥↑ ⌃⇧A

As always it’s worth checking through the bundle you’re using for useful commands – for example, ⇧⌘D is commonly used to open included files (e.g. in PHP, Ruby and Xcode), ⌥⌘↓ is used to open the current project in Xcode, and the Ruby on Rails bundle has many useful shortcuts for getting around your application’s files.

This is my list of TextMate‘s keyboard shortcuts that are very useful for Ruby and Rails developers, but are not used as widely as they should (according to my very scientific observation on a very representative sample, i.e. my colleagues). I skipped all the obvious ones (like “open file”, “save file”, “go to next window”, “close window” etc.) that most people use anyway. My list includes shortcuts that are very useful but sometimes might be hard to grasp at first or might require a little explanation.

I recently wanted to change some key bindings on Mac OS X. After spending a lot of time searching I found the information that I needed. However, the information was spread across several different sites. This article aims to collect all of the information that I found in a single document.

Mac OS X allows for some powerful control over key bindings. The method I describe below allows you to modify the key binding behavior for every program that uses the standard Cocoa AppKit text edit objects.

create a Dictionary file and customize your script very easily using the Mac OSX Key Binding documentation as a reference. Here’s what you do:

- Create a new .dict file in the following directory : home/Library/KeyBindings/PBKeyBinding.dict
Note : If the KeyBindings directory does not exist, you’ll need to create it.

A year ago I wrote about key bindings for switchers explaining how to make home/end and page up/down work (system wide) as most Windows users expect them to work.

Using the same key binding system we can make insertion of the various Apple-centric keyboard glyphs easy. This is useful when we want to cite a keyboard sequence like ⇧⌘V or similar.

If you look in the HTML bundle there is an Entities submenu (depicted below.) This is what I used when writing the TextMate manual, i.e. typing command and pressing tab (⇥) to get ⌘ etc.