Use QuicKeys to connect to AppleShare (IP) and AppleTalk Servers on your network. QuicKeys stores the particulars of the desired server volume and your login information, allowing you to connect and gain access to your data almost instantly.

To quickly print to your black and white draft printer make a two-step shortcut that does a Switch Printer (to the b&w draft printer) then select Print from the File menu. Give it a hot key of Command+P and you'll always print to your draft printer when you press Command+P.

For color printing you might instruct the Switch Printer shortcut to select your high quality color printer before selecting Print from the File menu. Assign Command+Shift+P to this shortcut and you'll always print to your color printer when you press that key combination...

"If QuicKeys X2 kept a log of the most frequently used shortcuts, I'm certain that mine would be the two function keys that I've devoted to "Hide Current Application" and "Hide Other Applications." During Jaguar days, the built-in application shortcuts were a nightmare, especially the two "standard" shortcuts for Hide Others: Command+Option+H vs. Command+Shift+H. Application-specific definitions for my Hide function keys resolved the dispute, as well as adding shortcuts for those applications that had none. There's more consistency with Panther applications, but there's still a need for occasional corrections to application behavior."

"In addition, a handful of the application-specific definitions for my Hide Current Application function key do more than just Hide. For example, some applications save the current document before hiding, and my Hide definition for Virtual PC first pauses the application so it doesn't compete for the CPU when I'm working with other applications."

"Retrospect was the application that was used as a platform for the bulk of my shortcut programming in QuicKeys. I was trying to automate a process to reset [a Retrospect] client that was on the backup list. This is a multi-step process that results from an a consistency check error and was proving to be an annoyance due its frequency of occurrence. Retrospect does not provide a mechanism to automate this process, so it seemed like a good candidate for exercising QuicKeys. I split the problem into two shortcuts. One shortcut removes the client from the backup list and adds it back in. The second shortcut rebuilds the backup volumes that were lost when the client was removed. Overall, the shortcuts were fairly easy to develop using the recording feature, and then the shortcut editor to clean things up." ...