Living and dying by the deadline

I’m a Mac user, and a keyboard shortcut junkie. As such, I’m a huge fan of Fastscripts by Red Sweater Software.

Fastscripts adds a handy menu bar item that allows quick access to scripts. Sure, Mac OSX has it’s own Script Menu, but it never really worked the way I wanted it to. Fastscripts performs the same basic function, but on steroids.

On the Mac, scripts are stored in two places: in the global /Library/Scripts folder, and in each user’s ~/Library/Scripts folder. You can access either of these through Fastscripts menu. Additionally, Fastscripts will create application-specific script folders in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/ – depending on which application is being used, these application scripts will appear at the top of the script menu. The fun part is that each keyboard shortcut you assign to a particular application only applies to that app.

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