Hello. You can use option+s to Open Safari and option+m to open Mail. If you want, you can assign commands for other applications. For example, I've assigned option+e to open TextEdit.
On Nov 9, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Frank Ventura wrote: > > Good advice here, what other uses can be had with keyboard commander? > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Mann > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 7:07 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: I've done it. > > > Hello. If you have Keyboard commander turned on in Voiceover > Preferences, you can check the time by hitting the right option key > and the letter T together. > To enable Keyboard commander do the following: > 1. Hit control+option+f8 to open VoiceOver utility. > 2. Interact with the categories table and navigate down to the > commanders category. > 3. Stop interacting with the Categories table and vo+rightarrow a > couple times and you should hear the keypad and keyboard tabs. On the > Keyboard tab, hit vo+space to select the keyboard tab. > 4. Vo+rightarrow again and you should hear a checkbox to enable > keyboard commander. Check that box with vo+space. > You should also tell VoiceOver to allow itself to be controled by > Applescript. I think you can find in the general category in > VoiceOver utility. > > On Nov 8, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote: > >> >> Hi all. >> >> Yes, I bought an imac last friday. So far, I love it. it's amazing >> how >> fast it is to get things done, and*most* things work fine. >> >> I have my phone sinced with iCal and address book, been doing a bit >> of >> web brouzing with safari, used front roe, gotten voice over saving my >> settings on a usb drive, all the usual stuff. >> I still need to add my music to iTunes though. most of the ID3 tags >> in >> my mp3s are messed up. some of them have both the artist and title >> duplicated in both the artist and title fields. I'll have to run >> them >> through mp3 tag studio on windows first as nearly all the file names >> are >> done as artist - title.mp3, so that should sort mmost things out. . >> But can itunes fill in all the other tags? >> >> one thing I can't get to work is e-mail. I've switched both my phone >> and pc to imap with no problems at all. but the mac doesn't want to >> know. the incoming server has an invalid certificate and it can't >> connect to the smtp server. it's really frustrating. >> I have e-mailed the tech support guys so they should hopefully have >> an >> answer. >> >> I still keep forgetting how the cursor works. I understand what's >> happening, I just keep reverting to windows habbits. I'll get it >> eventually. then I'll be expecting windows to behave like the mac. >> >> While editing text on a webpage, say in a reply on a message board, >> the >> home and end keys don't seem to do what they're supposed to do. >> also, >> if I do vo shift m to bring up the menu of misspelled words, it >> clicks >> on the wrong word. do I have to move the vo cursor onto the word I >> want >> to change? I was just using the arrow keys before. >> >> is there a command to read the current time rather than hopping over >> to >> the status menus? I know it's possible. >> >> To whoever it was who uses XMarks on the mac, did you try it on snow >> leopard? I downloaded the snow leopard package, ran it and it says >> that >> it requires leopard. I'm running 10.6.1. >> >> I'll also need to get it to write to ntfs drives, say if I want to >> copy >> some music I bought in itunes over to my windows machine,. >> >> I'm planning on buying superdooper or whatever it's called. that >> sounds >> like a fantastic backup solution. >> >> Finally, has anyone had any luck using the dashboard? I can bring up >> the different widgets ok, they're just confusing to wirk with. >> particularly the weather one. >> >> I'm sure I'll come up with more questions to keep you lot busy. :) >> so like I said, if it wasn't for it not playing ball with my e-mail >> provider, I'd be totally happy and for most things, I can see myself >> using the mac exclusively. >> >> Bye for now, >> Dannie >> >>> > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.425 / Virus Database: 270.14.54/2488 - Release Date: > 11/08/09 19:39:00 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
