keyboard shortcut to enter Time Machine?

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keyboard shortcut to enter Time Machine?

I'd really like to enter Time Machine by hitting F7, but I can't find a way to make this happen. I tried setting up something in System Prefs, but it appears to only let you define shortcuts within applications instead of for launching them. Any suggestions?

17" MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 160GB iPod classic, iPhone

Posted on Mar 6, 2008 9:55 AM

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Mar 6, 2008 11:24 AM in response to Joe Heafner

There are loads of apps to do this!
[Butler|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20035], [Quicksilver|http://www.blacktree.com> and [Spark|http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/software.php?sign=Sprk] are some of the more well known ones.

[MenuMaster (beta, scroll down)|http://unsanity.org> is an Unsanity haxie, and therefore includes APE. It costs $10, and requires the menu bar item to be enabled for you to launch TM. It isn't really a launcher.

And of course, Spotlight. It ranks items depending on how much you use them, so eventually you may just need to type "t" after cmd+space to launch TM.

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