There are certain utilities that make you wonder after you’ve first used them that how you could have lived without them for so long. In past entries we have discussed a few of them, like Clip Menu or DeskConnect for example.
Better Touch Tool is the gateway to modern Mac customization, I wish more folks would stop bitching about the Touch Bar and get into hacking it. I need help with a mental obstacle to using this. Jul 07, 2019 In this video I discuss Better Touch Tool from folivora.ai. It lets you customize your trackpad, mouse, keyboard, and more to perform actions on your Mac. Also mentioned in the video are Karabiner. You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. If you just want to buy a license for BetterTouchTool (and agree with the license terms) you can go here: Standard. In this video I discuss Better Touch Tool from folivora.ai. It lets you customize your trackpad, mouse, keyboard, and more to perform actions on your Mac. Also mentioned in the video are Karabiner. 'Best Mac Tool I know' dudolf December 21, 2012 / Version: BetterTouchTool 0.91.
This time we take a look at another one of these indispensable tools if you are a Mac user and you have either a Magic Mouse or a Macbook with a modern trackpad. The name of this little utility is Better Touch Tools and it is available for free.
Don’t be fooled by the free tag. In fact, Better Touch Tools is one of the most useful and convenient utilities you can find for your Mac.
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Let’s take a look at what it is all about.
Interestingly enough, Better Touch Tools (BTT from now onwards) is an app that really lives up to its name: In a nutshell, the app allows you to create your own custom gestures to use on your Mac with devices that support them, like the Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad or any of the glass trackpads that you can find on modern Macs.
If you have any of these, the value of BTT becomes apparent immediately. Apple tends not to include additional features on their OS’ unless they work perfectly (Wi-Fi sync for example), but sometimes that leaves a lot to be desired. BTT solves that by providing your Mac’s pointing device with much more flexibility.
Note: BTT also works for keyboard shortcuts and with any standard USB mouse, although its actions are optimized for the devices mentioned above.When using the app, you can choose whether to create a gesture to assign to the entire OS or just to a particular app, which is really convenient.
As expected, there are wide gamut of predefined actions you can assign to gestures, but the real meat of BTT resides in being able to assign your own shortcuts or commands to your custom ones.
For example, in my case I use Safari a lot and if I want to switch tabs, I have to use the keyboard or click directly on the tab I want. So I decided to create a gesture on my Magic Mouse that allowed me to switch tabs on Safari just by swiping on my Magic Mouse to one side or the other.
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Creating your own gestures is fairly easy. First, choose the app for which you want a new gesture on the left panel of BTT and then select from the available gestures. In this case, I chose single finger swipes to the right and left of the mouse to trigger the action I wanted (switch tabs back and forth respectively).
Note: BTT will oftentimes ask you for permission to control your Mac using accessibility features. This is entirely normal.Next, you could choose from among the predefined actions, but for this gesture I used the keyboard shortcuts for the actions.
Once done, you can start using your newly-created gestures right away.
Overall, I found that the gestures I created using Better Touch Tools worked almost perfectly with a few exceptions here and there when creating complex ones (especially on the trackpad) or when assigning actions to very simple/common gestures.
The flexibility that this utility provides easily makes up for its shortcomings.
In any case, being completely free, there is no reason for you not to give it a try.
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Free ida pro full version with crack. It also allows you to configure actions for keyboard shortcuts, normal mice and the Apple Remote. In addition to this it has an iOS companion App (BTT Remote) which can also be configured to control your Mac the way you want.
Office for mac 2016 piratebay. BetterTouchTool includes many goodies, like window snapping or an integrated window switcher.
BetterTouchTool is the (absolutely free) software for your Mac (running Mac OS X 10.6 or greater). It has tons of features and allows you to completely customize the way you work with your Mac):
What's New:
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I didn't post many updates about BetterTouchTool during the last few weeks or even months. This was mostly because we had our first baby and I took some time off to enjoy this amazing time. I'm now fully back to work on BTT, so here is the first update in 2020 🎉.
Presets:
Presets:
- BTT now supports a new preset bundle format that can include files which can be referenced e.g. in scripts or in the floating HTML view. Documentation for this will soon be added on https://docs.bettertouchtool.net. This is quite powerful and I think it will allow some great new things to be created with BTT. I'm going to post various related tutorials on my blog soon.
Predefined Actions:
- A few new predefined actions: Connect Bluetooth Device, Disconnect Bluetooth Device, Toggle Bluetooth Device. They can for example be used to easily connect / disconnect AirPods. You can also check the connection state via Apple Script now (see https://community.folivora.ai/t/work-in-progress-and-alpha-features/8832/193 )
- Switched the Floating HTML view to the modern Apple WKWebView because the old one BTT was using is deprecated. This will allow for some cool new things.
- Files located in the preset data folder can now be accessed using presetfile://
- Other local files can be accessed via localfile://
- You can now write custom predefined actions in Swift or Objective-C: https://github.com/folivoraAI/BetterTouchToolPlugins
Other small features:
- Improvements for the 16' Macbook Pro.
- The BTT Clipboard Manager (predefined action 'Show Clipboard / Pasteboard History'), can now preview PDFs and various other file types.
- Dragging a file (or something else) onto the BTT menubar or dock icon, will copy it to the clipboard and make it availble in the BTT Clipboard Manager.
- Clipboard Manager got a new option to clear all entries but keep the ones marked as favorite.
- Next event widget allows to select the number of days to look ahead
- New triggers in 'Named / Other Triggers Section': Specific app did launch, app did terminate, app did activate, app did deactivate.
- New trigger in other / named triggers, 'Did receive NSWorkspace Notification'
- You can now place the icon for a Touch Bar button inside the text by using the {icon} placeholder
- The calendar day widget has more configuration options, e.g. to select what happens on tap.
Bugfixes: Ethernet driver for mac os high sierra.
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- Improved Touch Bar visibility behavior after system sleep
- Fixed randomly stuck Touch Bar buttons when using key repeat
- Fixed some memory leaks
- Significantly reduced false positive rate for the Tip Tap gesture.
- Fixed issue where the 'Restart after sleep' option would not be saved in general settings
- Global Touch Bar gestures should behave better
- Fixed a bug where the shell task / script action assigned to a Touch Bar widget would sometimes delete the Touch Bar widget's text after running the task.
- Many little other fixes reported on community.folivora.ai