I use LaunchBar, and love it. However, one function that QuickSilver has which I would like in LaunchBar is the QuickSilver Triggers. This lets you assign a key combination to do things directly. LaunchBar doesn't have a similar function today.

Soulver (really nice calculator) is something that I use most days, and I was looking for even a faster way to launch it than a launcher program like LaunchBar was capable of. My quest led me to a now 3 year old freeware utility called Xkeys. Thankfully it runs great on my Intel Mac with OS X 10.4.7.

Now I can just press my F5 key and in about a second Soulver is up and running. Perfect. There are a few other "Function Key" applets out there, but Xkeys is the only free one that I found.

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