“Find, learn, and remember menu shortcuts”

The Mac environment is built to make full use of keyboard shortcuts, yet very few people know exactly how to use these. You can familiarize yourself with them thanks to this app, KeyCue. Depending on what task you are doing, bringing up the KeyCue window will show all relevant shortcuts. You'll realize that most of them are fairly simple to execute. KeyCue has an elegant interface, which displays shortcuts by theme like message, edit or mail. You can even use the application in any sort of virtual desktop.

While KeyCue is an excellent way to save time, we've sometimes had a slight delay when launching the application window. It's also important to know that KeyCue can use up a fair amount of your memory, so make sure you don't have to many applications running when KeyCue is launched. Overall though, KeyCue is an extremely useful application.

KeyCue is a great tool to discover and learn all the keyboard shortcuts on your Mac.

Languages:

English, German, French

Recent changes in KeyCue:

KeyCue 4.0 is ready for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Shortcuts can now be activated by clicking.
The activation delay can be reduced down to 0.
Accelerated table updates.
Significantly reduced memory requirements when the shortcut table is not visible.
Trial mode now allows more realistic exploration of KeyCue.
Fixes a problem where KeyCue sometimes reported that "No shortcuts are available" in Opera.
Fixes a problem with multiple Spaces in Leopard, where KeyCue would show up only in the first space.
Fixes a problem when a menu was open while displaying the shortcut table.
Fixes an inconsistency with online license renewal.
KeyCue now correctly appears on all "desktops" in virtual desktop managers (such as VirtueDesktops, You Control Desktops, Desktop Manager and Codetek Virtual Desktop).

Limitations:

Some shortcuts are disabled in the trial version

OS requirements for KeyCue:

OS: Mac OS X

Minimum requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3

Pros

Elegant interface
Works in virtual desktops
Clever way to save time

Cons

Delay in popping up
Uses a lot of CPU

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From the publisher of KeyCue

KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively. Just hold down the Command key for a while - KeyCue comes to help and shows a table of all currently available menu shortcuts. When you have found the desired shortcut in the KeyCue table, just type it and continue working as usual. The KeyCue window will disappear automatically.

You no longer need to memorize and remember key combinations, just press the command key and KeyCue tells you what you want to know. Over time, you will automatically remember frequently used shortcuts and become a power user of your favorite applications, working much more efficiently.