Assigning Global Keyboard Shortcut to Display Home Folder

Hi there,
I've done some hunting to determine if there is a way to assign a global keyboard shortcut to display a finder window displaying one's home folder contents. I don't see how I can do it using "Keyboard Shortcuts" in system preferences. Does anyone know if there is a way to accomplish this?
Thanks!

you can't make a keyboard shortcut like that that will work from any application using keyboard system preferences.
You can do it with a 3rd party app as follows.
paste the following into script editor and save it as a script or an application.
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "Finder"
make new Finder window
open home
activate
end tell</pre>
then use a 3rd part application launcher to bind a global shortcut to it. Try Quicksilver, Butler, ikeys or Quickeys for that.
Message was edited by: V.K.

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