Photo Corners headlinesarchivemikepasini.com
A S C R A P B O O K O F S O L U T I O N S F O R T H E P H O T O G R A P H E R
Enhancing the enjoyment of taking pictures with news that matters, features that entertain and images that delight. Published frequently.
Keyboard Maestro 8.0 Released
19 September 2017
Peter N Lewis has released Keyboard Maestro 8.0, his OS X productivity manager, with over a hundred improvements including more help, text size control, machine learning, more drag-and-drop, Touch Bar support, context sensitive assistance.
The New Features video quickly highlights enhancements relished by advanced users. But Keyboard Maestro is easy enough to automate tasks as simple as text expansions like typing your name while being powerful enough to bend applications to your will, as well as run AppleScript, JavaScript, Perl, Python and other high-end languages within its macros.
NEW FEATURES
New features include a Cron trigger for calendar based macros, Gesture triggers drawn with the mouse, Remote triggering for integration with Web services, Clipboard filtering and more.
Dictionaries can store structured information and Macro-local variables allow you to write cleaner macros. The editor now has full Open Scripting Architecture support, as well.
Version 8 also includes many new input actions, more Control Flow options, actions to send messages, more user interface control and further enhancements to the Custom HTML windows. There are new conditions, collections, tokens and functions, too.
INDISPENSABLE TOOL
We rely on Keyboard Maestro to significantly boost our productivity with macros that provide a front end to our scripts for adding copyright information to photos, copy edit and markup text for Photo Corners, add palettes of useful tools to our most-used applications and more.
You can see a list of recent stories in which Keyboard Maestro has solved various problems for us.
It's really an indispensable tool for us.
DISCOUNT
Consequently, we are happy to continue to provide a 20 percent discount for Photo Corners readers.
Upgrades are available now directly from Stairways Software for as little as $18 until Nov. 19 and free for purchases since March 1. Upgrade instructions have already been emailed by the company to current users.
Keyboard Maestro 8.0 requires OS X Yosemite 10.10.0 or later.
Stairways Software releases Keyboard Maestro 8.0
PERTH, Western Australia -- Stairways Software Pty Ltd has announced Keyboard Maestro 8.0, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for OS X.
Version 8 refines the editor in a variety of ways, adding more help, text size control, machine learning, more drag-and-drop, Touch Bar support, context sensitive assistance and much more.
Version 8 continues the long tradition of putting more power at your finger tips, introducing the Cron trigger for calendar based macros, Gesture triggers drawn with the mouse, Remote triggering for integration with Web services, Clipboard filtering and more.
The new version expands on MIDI support to allow far deeper control both in triggering macros and sending packets.
With the addition of Dictionaries, you can now store structured information and Macro-local variables allow you to write cleaner macros.
The editor now has full Open Scripting Architecture support, allowing you to construct, control and adjust macros programmatically.
And, of course, version 8 lets you do even more, adding many new input actions, more Control Flow options, actions to send messages, more user interface control and further enhancements to the Custom HTML windows. There are plenty of new conditions, collections, tokens and functions as well.
Watch the What's New Video on the home page to see some of the new features or the Introduction video if you are new to Keyboard Maestro.
With over a hundred other improvements, there is bound to be something for everyone.
Price, Availability
Keyboard Maestro is engineered by Stairways Software Pty Ltd and distributed by FastSpring. Keyboard Maestro is licensed on a per user basis and an individual user can use it on five Macs.
New customers can purchase Keyboard Maestro from https://purchase.keyboardmaestro.com/ for U.S.$36. Customers with five or more users should contact us for a volume discount quote.
Customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro directly from us after March 1 have been issued a free upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 8. If you have not received your free license, you can find your free license upgrade at https://enquiry.stairways.com/.
Customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro version 7 prior to March 1 can upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 8 for $18 until 19 November and for $25 after that date. Customers who purchased older versions of Keyboard Maestro can upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 8 for $25. If you have not received your instructions on how to upgrade, you can find details by looking up your Keyboard_Maestro license at https://enquiry.stairways.com/.
Keyboard Maestro 8 is not available from the Mac App Store (and probably never will be).
A fully-functional unlicensed trial version of Keyboard Maestro can be downloaded from https://download.keyboardmaestro.com/.
For sales enquires, volume purchases, customer service, technical support or to contact project management, our current contact information is listed at https://contact.stairways.com/.
Help
Extensive online documentation on Keyboard Maestro can be found at https://documentation.keyboardmaestro.com/ and on the wiki at https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com and forum at https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com.
A brief taste of Keyboard Maestro in action can be found at https://screenshots.keyboardmaestro.com/.
For more information about anything to do with Keyboard Maestro visit https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/.