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janey

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Dec 20, 2002
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sunny los angeles
Heyas all, I just got a new keyboard from Newegg (MS Comfort Curve) and it's just..wow, i'm in love. The only quirk I've found so far is that alt and start are switched, but I don't really look at the keyboard, so I just switched the modifier keys in system prefs.

Now, there's a couple of extra keys on the keyboard (back, forward, play/pause, home, search, mail, and one i can't tell), and I'd like to use them as shortcuts to open apps, or to go back/forward in my browser. I've looked around a bit on these forums and on Google, and the only relevant thing I could find was one where someone wanted to use buttons similar to back/forward in firefox, but there's a particular extension for that, and I wanted to use those buttons elsewhere too.

Anyone got an app like USB Overdrive but for keyboards? Or some way to use System Preferences to do it?

Thanks in advance :)
 
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