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Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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Ross said 8:54PM on 8-28-2007
Speaking of speakable items (haha!) I just had the same thought the other day, of how cool it would be to say "next track" and have iTunes change it. I haven't looked into it, but wouldn't the sound interfere with the microphone?
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Gareth Burleigh said 8:57PM on 8-28-2007
Personally I love the keyboard short cuttery of Sizzling Keys, great app and works its way into how you work.
Gareth
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jan said 9:41PM on 8-28-2007
SpeakableItems can do this aleady fir itunes up and try it.
But prepare to start it via voice and do the rest manualy eccept u have a headset^^
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Ben the Dog said 9:50PM on 8-28-2007
I have been using Synergy for a year or so and really love it. Fully customisable keyboard shortcuts and it also puts a back - play/pause - fwd set of buttons in the menubar for you. Well worth the $9 (I know there are freebies out there, but this does the trick perfectly)
My dock is already cluttered enough, unfortunately...
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iGO said 12:32AM on 8-29-2007
Don't the 2 new Apple keyboards do this via the labeled F keys? Has to be easier and quicker than mousing over icons in the dock, or any icons on a screen!?!
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Ralph Hunter said 1:34AM on 8-29-2007
Hey what a small world, I just had 3000 plus of my CDs ripped by www.ripstyles.com and they rock! Thanks for bringing me into the digital music world, love this application!
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Jonathan said 1:47AM on 8-29-2007
Glad you guys like the software!
Actually Mike, iTunes is already speakable! Just turn on speech and you can use "next/previous song" and "play" whenever you're in the iTunes window!
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DJ said 3:50AM on 8-29-2007
Does anyone remember in 10.0 when "dockables" were called widgets? Or at least they were in the library folder.
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mck said 7:02AM on 8-29-2007
I'm with Ben -- I've been using Synergy Advanced almost a year now and love it. It accents Quicksilver nicely too because it's all keyboard shortcuts. (It's from Wincent.com I think, and it's about $12).
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JeffDM said 11:40AM on 8-29-2007
While it's nice to have some diversity, I think the Synergy line does this kind of control a little better. I don't think it's worth using an entire dock icon for a single control. Maybe if they offered a way to split a dock icon four ways or three ways into a triangle, then that would be OK.
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