thumb
WHAT IS COCKPIT?

Cockpit is a really flexible multi application controller and automation center. Below are only some usecases to give you an idea.

• Controling your apps and your system
• Launching apps
• running tasks, scripts and more
• do all the above usecases by custom and global hotkeys
WHO IS IT AIMED FOR?

You were searching a long time for a way to
easily control your apps with a controller that is out of your way?

You are looking for a way to run scripts, tasks and even more with a click of a button or just with a hotkey? With Cockpit you can do all this and even more.
chain
Control like a Pro
Cockpit comes with controls for 7 apps preinstalled to give you great power over your apps from the beginning on.

• iTunes
• iPhoto
• Keynote
• Safari
• iCal
• Mail
• Mac OS X itself

Support for other apps and tasks can be found in our Controls section or built just within Cockpit in minutes.



chain
Extend your Cockpit with Controls
Cockpit offers a powerfull plugin system called Controls, which gives you the power to control just anything you want. Start tasks or scripts, launch applications, and much much more. Your creativity sets the limits.

Because building Controls is super easy, everyone can build them without any special knowledge.

You can even export them, and share them with other users at our Controls center or download Controls to use them in your Cockpit.





chain
Global Hotkeys
Sometimes it is even faster to have a hotkey to control apps and tasks. Cockpit can be controlled with custom and system wide hotkeys. Setting a hotkey is just easy as the rest. Nice overlays tell you which app the actual pressed hotkey belongs to and does.


chain
Automator integration
Not only that creating custom worklows works exactly like Automator, but you can also drag and drop automator actions over to cockpit. You can even run Automator workflows from within Cockpit


chain
Execute your scripts
Cockpit gives you the possibility to execute all major kind of scripts. You can also build your workflow with scripts of all kinds.

• AppleScript
• Shell Scripts
• SQL
• much more...



Technical Specification

Preinstalled App-Controls
• iTunes
• iPhoto
• Keynote
• Safari
• iCal
• Mail
• Mac OS X itself


Custom Controls
• unlimited number of custom Controls supported
• 11 workflows per control
• Automator integration
• Supports AppleScript, Shell Scripts, SQL and more
• Export Controls
• Import Controls
• Share Controls at our Controls Center


Global Hotkeys
• for preinstalled and custom Controls (no need to switch controls when using hotkeys)
• for showing/hiding Cockpit
• for switching Controls
• Hotkey overlay for showing hotkey informations about the pressed hotkey





System Requirements
• Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) and above
or Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) and above
Snow Leopard strongly recommended
• PowerPC G5 or Intel Mac
• 1 GB RAM

Mac OS X Technologies
• Core Image
• Core Animation
• Universal Binary
• 32 Bit and 64 Bit supported
• AppleScript


macosxthec