Users can pause and resume recording by clicking a button or by pressing a hotkey. The player manually enters each region by pressing a hotkey. The player can also manually reload at any point by using the hotkey. The player can reload at any time using the hotkey. ClipX can be recalled via a hotkey and supports both bitmap and text clipboards. It can be activated by pressing a hotkey (set by the user). After it is launched, the default hotkey for activating it is F11. One could "hotkey" from one operating system to the next using the Alt-Tab key combination. The hotkey tool does not require previous launching of the software application. One example is the bbkeys hotkey application. PTHotKey, Sparkle for application updates, and the hotkey code includes software licensed from TrufSoft.com.