"I publish printed music on a Macintosh using MakeMusic Inc.’s Finale 2005. As a full-fledged professional level print music creator/editor, Finale is a complex program with many functions buried two or three levels deep in submenus. It also has a total of some 25 different tools I have to select for different uses, and there are many functions, such as transposing a selected passage up or down by any of 12 different intervals, that are multi-step procedures involving my two least favorite activities: mousing and menus. To take the hassle out of all that, I have some 200 QuicKeys Shortcuts set up just for use in Finale alone. For me, QuicKeys is far more than a convenience, it is part of the Finale application. I’ve forgotten where many of Finale’s functions are located, because the shortcuts made possible by QuicKeys have long since taken the place of burrowing among the submenus."

"Someone found an in-dash VGA monitor with a USB touchpad for sale on the net at http://digitalww.com/DWW-7VGA.htm. I bought one, installed it in my car, ran VGA and USB cables to the trunk, and installed an iBook there. The iBook is running iTunes. I needed a way to drive iTunes from the touch screen. Enter QuicKeys. I set up a toolbar at the bottom of the touch screen using QK X3 and now I have full control, thanks to quick keys.

I still have one problem that I hope QuicKeys can solve, though I have not discovered how yet. When I turn the ignition switch off, the power to the iBook is shut off. Normally this would be fine as the iBook would go to sleep, but when iTunes is playing, it overrides the sleep settings.

I hope that QK can in someway detect that the computer has switched to battery power, triggering a script that stops iTunes and sleeps the computer. Likewise I would like it to trigger on the return to power and wake iTunes back up"

QuicKeys cannot detect power status, but that's a great idea for a new QuicKeys trigger, monitoring the power manager!

Use QuicKeys to control iTunes directly, or behind the scenes using a combination of QuicKeys and AppleScript. Apple has done a lot to make iTunes fully scriptable, and many people have created literally hundreds of AppleScripts for it. We'll show you a couple example scripts ("rate the current song" and "set playcount of current song") and demonstrate how to imbed them into QuicKeys X3 shortcuts.