KeyCue: Instant Shortcut Cheat Sheet
If you’re a Mac user and serious about becoming more efficient in your favorite software, learning keyboard shortcuts is essential. Ergonis’s KeyCue (20 euros) is a fantastic tool for learning them.
By simply pressing the Command key, all the shortcuts for the current application will appear in a floating window, which is completely different from clicking through individual menus, where it’s more likely that you’ll just select the item you like (rather than typing the keyboard shortcut).
The result is that you’re FAR more likely to learn the keyboard shortcuts by using KeyCue.
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X,” from Peachpit Press
When Jeff isn’t writing about the graphic design world, he’s talking about it on the Design Tools Weekly podcast with co-host Jay Nelson. He also talks about Apple and the Mac world every week on The Mac Observer’s Apple Weekly Report.
Jeff studies, tests and reviews new software and technologies for the Macintosh community as well as the design and print industries. He is a former Pre-press specialist, and has nearly 25 years experience with computer technology. Jeff trains, lectures and consults on techniques for more efficiently using Mac OS X in creative environments throughout the country.
In the rare moments when he can get away from his MacBook Pro, Jeff spends his time climbing and biking in the Colorado mountains.