Is there a way to associate applications with certain keypresses? I'd prefer to use Apple Script or something like that, rather than downloading a program that would run in the background.

I'm new to OSX, but I tried doing this:

set Safari "MacintoshHD:Applications:Safari"
open Safari


as well as:

set Safari "MacintoshHD:Applications:Safari"
tell application "Finder"
open Safari
end tell


Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Evan.