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If you find yourself doing the same things over and over on your Mac—or if you prefer to use the keyboard as much as possible—you need a keyboard-automation utility. There are a number of these shortcut utilities, but iKey 2.2.2 occupies a desirable middle ground in terms of price and features. For each shortcut you create, you tell iKey what should happen (a single event or a sequence of events), when it should happen (in which programs or contexts), and what should trigger the action (for instance, a keystroke, a sequence of keystrokes, a scheduled time, or a USB-device action). iKey’s range of possible actions is impressive, including launching applications, typing text, copying files, simulating mouse movements, and executing Unix shell commands