Posts Tagged ‘keyboard shortcut’

HyperDock adds eye candy, functionality to your Mac’s dock

Monday, September 27th, 2010

HyperDock is a System Preferences pane that you can install on your Mac that adds some nice visual improvements to the dock, as well as some very useful window-handling functionality. Currently it’s in beta, but you’d never know it; I have yet to have a single problem with it on my system.

Visually, HyperDock adds window previews when you mouse over icons for running applications, much like what you see in Windows 7. I haven’t decided if I like this feature (on my Mac, or on Windows), but even turned off HyperDock is still worth having installed.

HyperDock adds the ability to set up mouse and keyboard shortcuts for your applications individually or en masse, with options like Activate App, Hide App, Hide Other Apps, Quit App, Kill App, Exposé, Reveal App in Finder, Open Location, and Execute AppleScript. But as much as I love adding keyboard shortcut functionality to my system, it’s HyperDock’s window handling abilities that really shine.

You can set hotkeys for moving and resizing windows. This fixes one of the biggest UI problems in OS X, which is that to resize a window you must grab a tiny widget at the bottom right of the window. Using HyperDock, you can press a key combination (it defaults to Ctrl-Option) and whatever window the cursor happens to be over suddenly starts moving with your cursor. Release the keys, the window stops right there. Adding Shift (for Ctrl-Option-Shift) resizes the window under the cursor.

HyperDock is currently in beta, and while so it is a free download. Once it is released it is likely to “cost a small fee” according to the site.
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Google Contacts gets an update with shortcuts, labels and better Gmail integration

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

If you’re opening up Gmail today, you might spot something new in your sidebar: Google Contacts. The neglected address book just got an update, and a prominent new position in Gmail’s navigation bar. So, what’s Google offering to get you to use Contacts? A more Gmail-esque experience.

User-requested features like keyboard shortcuts, custom labels and sorting by last name are all part of contacts now. it sounds like users wanted Contacts to feel a lot more like part of Gmail, because that’s what those features accomplish. The contact cards also have a new look, with a much bigger “notes” field. If you hate Contacts, you can hide it in Gmail by clicking near the right edge of the “Mail” link in your sidebar.

Do you use Gmail contacts? Why or why not, and what’s better? (Personally, I’m just a boring old Apple Address Book guy.)