Hi guys,
Hope this doesn't come across as a really stupid question, or should I say, hope this doesn't come across as a question that shows my stupidity......
You have me interested in the name "keyboardmaestro". Can you shed some light on where the name came from and whether it means anything in particular?
Thanks in advance.
Keyboard：
You know what it is.
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Maestro：
A maestro is a skilled and well-known musician or conductor. - Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary 8E
This's may why there is a baton on the app icon.
As described on the wiki:
History
Following on the success of Application Switcher for Classic Mac OS, Michael Kamprath wrote Keyboard Maestro for Mac OS X and released it in early 2002. Incorporating an impressively powerful hot key macro facility, as well as Application and Clipboard Switching facilities, it rapidly became an indispensable tool for many Mac OS X users, including us here at Stairways Software.
Looking back at the documentation for version 1.x you can see that Keyboard Maestro at that point had basically hot keys mapped to actions and not much else:
Hence “Keyboard”.
It had 26 actions which you could sequence together, including some already quite powerful ones like running an AppleScript or unix shell script. So it could already control your Mac in impressive ways.
Hence “Maestro”.
Periodically people suggest I should change the name, since the “Keyboard” part is quite a misnomer by this point (there are 27 triggers now (more than the original number of actions!)), and only two have anything do with the keyboard (well, three at a stretch if you include MIDI actions!).
But I have no plans to ever change the name from “Keyboard Maestro”.