Of all the utilities I couldn’t live without on my Mac, Peter Lewis’s Keyboard Maestro is perhaps the most important. It helps me switch between apps, type frequently used text, open collections of ...

Computers should perform repetitive actions on our behalf, freeing us for higher-level work. Yet the insistence of operating systems and apps on making us carry out mind- and finger-numbing jobs has ...

The OS X Dictionary defines a maestro as "a great performer, especially a musician." The application Keyboard Maestro from Stairways Software isn't a musician, but it's a great performer, especially ...

The keyboard and keystroke automation tool update brings along more than 100 new and refined features. This is an app you need to know about because if it's right for you, it will transform how you ...

In Mac Power Users Episode 187, David Sparks and Katie Floyd talked about word processing apps, which meant talking a great deal about Microsoft Word, as well as Pages and others. Around the 38m40s ...

A little over two years ago, Peter Lewis of Stairways Software released Keyboard Maestro 6, and I sang the praises of macro software in general before describing that version’s new features (see ...

Earlier this week, the popular text expansion program, TextExpander, switched to a subscription model. Subsequently, a lot of people are jumping ship to other software. Programmer Ryan M created a ...

Stairways Software has rolled out Keyboard Maestro 8.0, the new version of its automation tool for the Mac. With it, you can automate almost any repetitive task you do on your Mac—from opening web ...

Keyboard Maestro, while not as powerful as QuicKeys, is an easy-to-use, capable, and affordable macro utility. Stairways Software’s $36 Keyboard Maestro is a Macintosh macro utility for automating ...

periodically while an application is running. * Time – on login, at a particular time of day, or periodically. * Macro Palette – with a click on a context sensitive Macro Palette. * PowerMate – by ...