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FunctionFlip

FunctionFlip - 2.0

Toggle Mac function keys: make the secondary action the default.

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Version 2.0: Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version: 2.0
Release Date: 2008-12-27
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 2.0): 761
Downloads (all versions): 2,851

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Product Description:

I like the media keys on my MacBook keyboard - just not all of them. Fat-fingered that I am, I regularly skip tracks when I just want to pause or mute. Disabling all of the keys just won't do, because I use the brightness and volume keys every day.

FunctionFlip individually controls your MacBook or MacBook Pro's function keys, turning special keys back to regular F-keys, or vice-versa. FunctionFlip is a preference pane; you'll find it in the "Other" category in System Preferences.

FunctionFlip's purpose is simply to disable the special features - rewind, play, mute, etc. - on the function keys. For example, if you "flip" F7, F8, and F9, those keys - only those keys - will revert back to normal F keys. Press the fn key with the special key to get the special function back. That is, the "special" and "normal" functions are flipped.

What's new in this version:

Multiple keyboard support. Fixed F1 and F2 keys on external keyboards.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • FunctionFlip supports all MacBooks and MacBook Pros
  • recent Apple external keyboards
  • iBooks
  • and PowerBooks.

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FunctionFlip ReviewAwesome. - Version: 2.0.2, 9/28/2009 03:22PM PST

thmghtd
Thanks for bringing this up-to-code (so to speak) for 10.6 (not to mention the quick turnaround on the 2.0.1 bug).

Love this thing. Being able to ditch just the dashboard shortcut key is so great. Like, really great.

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FunctionFlip Reviewkind of works - but not really - Version: 2.0.1, 9/28/2009 05:44AM PST

walfrieda
On my MBP 13" (mid 2009) running snow leopard 10.6.1, this nice preference pane "kind of" works, but has a couple of problems.
First, and most annoyingly, when I "flip" F8 to show spaces, it does show the spaces but at the same time plays the system alarm sound when invoked on any space other than space 1.
Second, it spontaneously stops working after some use - suddenly, pressing F8 no longer shows the spaces but starts iTunes (something I really hate about these new "media keys"). I have not yet been able to find a particular "user action" that makes the program stop working. I have to stop it and start it again.
I would love to love this program - it would definitely be in constant use on my computer, but with these two major glitches I simply can't. When the developer is into fixing this stuff anyway, he might consider a "shut this *censored* up" function to inactivate the F8 key so that it no longer starts playing a song on iTunes. Did I say I hate this??? All other keys are kind of fine, as they do not start programs.
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FunctionFlip Troubleshooting Reportsystem preferences quits...... - Version: 2.0, 3/4/2009 09:55PM PST

kombi--2008
system preferences quits......
when i click on the preference pane
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