Filed under: Utilities, Productivity
FunctionFlip: reclaim your Mac's function keys
Mac laptops have those convenient little buttons at the top of the keyboard that let you control some important systems prefs really quickly. When I want to toggle brightness up and down, adjust volume, or pause iTunes, I'm really glad they're there. But when I'm using an app that actually demands one of the function keys they're assigned to, I can totally do without the fiddly little toggling bits. That doesn't mean I need all of my F-keys back though, so merely activating them through System Preferences doesn't quite do the trick.Cue music, enter FunctionFlip. This app -- now a Preference Pane as of version 1.2, does what it says it does: it flips your function keys one-by-one. So if you want to free up F1 through F4, but leave F10 and F12 as volume keys, you can go right ahead. It's the kind of great idea that makes you wonder why Apple hasn't built it into the system preferences yet.
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anthony said 12:46AM on 9-21-2008
Or you could go through the oh so laborious task of holding the "fn" key.
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John said 12:20PM on 9-24-2008
Is that not built in? That seems to be just like the option you find under 'System Preferences>Keyboard & Mouse>Use all F1, F2, etc keys as standard function keys'
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Erik said 12:45PM on 10-25-2008
Anthony's got it right, I use "fn + whatever" to activate the mac controls, and retain the normal "f" keys for other programs. Is there a program that lets you turn the mac controls off when you open a certain program (such as Excel)?
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