In the years since I first started developing FastScripts, all manner of keyboard-shortcut type solutions have popped up, including the enormously ambitious Quicksilver, and the refined, trigger-action-oriented Butler.

But some of us still appreciate FastScripts for its simplicity. Put scripts in the standard Apple-location, cmd-select them from the FastScripts menu, and assign a keystroke. FastScripts could [...]

I’ve been sitting on this release too long, because of a very minor unreproducible (harmless!) bug that I’m trying to track down. Anyway, there’s no reason to hold out any longer. Those of you wanting to use the Tab, Escape, and Return keys in your script keyboard shortcuts will be happy with this release!

FastScripts 2.3.1

Version [...]

Erik Barzeski stumbled on a cool trick with Terminal’s scriptability, allowing him to save presets for his favorite color schemes in AppleScript. His approach is especially brilliant since he’s using FastScripts to trigger the scripts!

This gave me a little whimsy of an idea, that it would be cool to have a script on hand to [...]

Today I released FastScripts 2.3 (and an updated FastScripts Lite!). FastScripts 2.3 contains the following significant changes:

A refined grayscale menu bar icon
Support for unmodified keys as script shortcuts (10.3 and later only)
New preference for toggling “Launch at Login” feature
Reorganized Preferences dialogs
Improved AppleScript access to FastScripts script hierarchies
Miscellaneous bug fixes

The new grayscale menu bar icon was [...]