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None of the other solutions are free.
Authored by: Pausanias on Dec 05, '03 05:32:03PM

See, it's the idea of paying someone for a feature, that should be in there for free that just irritates me. While I'm sure all the solutions you've posted here work fine, FreeHotKeys is the only truly free one. I think that the whole Apple community has gotten too used to paying $5 here, $10 there for features that Apple should have put in there in the first place. I've migrated from the Linux community, where these little applet things are always free---no one would even think of charging for them.

And for me, "ShareWare" or "try before you buy" or even "donate if you like it" doesn't mean "free." I don't need some author guilt-tripping me into paying him five bucks. "If you liked this program, please give me money." I don't need that. Either it's free or it's not free.

And to the person who suggested I should use command-tab + mouse: allow me to remind you that we are talking keyboard shortcuts here. No mouse allowed, by definition. Thanks.



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None of the other solutions are free.
Authored by: dsomar on Dec 06, '03 03:06:44PM

Thanks for the tip as this was EXACTLY the kind of tool I was looking for. I do disagree with your statement regarding donationware and the like. If you find it useful and feel it is something you would pay for, then pay for it.

IF

it is something you feel should have been built into the OS ages ago, and the programmer is simply providing a helpful tool with that very philosophy but doesn't necessarily have to be paid for, then DON'T PAY FOR IT and don't be sensitive about it. It's not that big a deal.

THERE ARE USERS who go out of their way to pay for something that's free because they find it SO helpful. I'm not one of them, but it sure happens.

Thanks again for the great suggestion and happy holidays.
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