I second the Quicksilver recommendation. When you combine Quicksilver triggers (keyboard shortcut available regardless of what application you're in) with apple

I second the Quicksilver recommendation. When you combine Quicksilver triggers (keyboard shortcut available regardless of what application you're in) with applescript, and fabric it's very powerful. I have a trigger that that restarts all of my local services using fabric and opens up new terminal windows running tails of the relevant logs. The Applescript is this if anyone wants to do something similar: tell application "Terminal" do script "tail -F /somepath/some.log" do script "tail -F /anotherpath/another.log" do script "sudo fab -f '/pathto/fabfile.py' local deploy" activate end tell Here's a detailed explanation of setting up Triggers: http://leafraker.com/2007/09/17/how-to-create-a-quicksilver-trigger/ http://leafraker.com/2007/09/17/how-to-create-a-quicksilver-...