Do you miss being able to actually use the function keys on your keyboard? Remember when you could launch applications & open files with them? If so, One Key is for you. One Key is a simple, integrated and elegant solution for using the function keys on your keyboard to launch applications or files with a simple key press. One Key is integrated into the system as an OS X preference pane to stay out of your way. No fancy setup is required to get it working, unlike other hot key apps, One Key is one step simple.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I had been using (and getting addicted to) Function Key Mapper for several years and didn't know about One Key until it failed to work with Snow Leopard. I just thought I would give this a shot. This is superior in every way except one. One Key does not seem to have the ability to use modifier keystrokes to launch applications. So once you have assigned an Fkey to one application, that is all you can use it for. Try using a modifier and you get an error tone. Function Keys Mapper allows you to use modifiers.
However, One Key is much faster and doesn't use up any processor time to work properly (Function Keys Mapper always used up way too much percentage of the processors' time in my opinion).
I recommend it highly.
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Pretty good for a 1.0 release. I want this to only work when the Finder is the front application. For example, when I'm working in
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Nicely done. It does what it says it does extremely well, and was quite well thought out. However, there are other programs, such as "Key