Friday, January 21, 2005 |
13:47 - Mine eyes... ow, mine eyes... they hath seen the glory, and it hurts
http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/
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The world is changed.
LaunchBar. Go. See. Download. Try it. Seriously.
See how long it takes before you start pressing Command+Space on even your Windows computers, and cursing and starting to shake when nothing happens...
UPDATE: LaunchBar is old... and, naturally, it started life as a NeXT thing.
What NeXT-head ever imagined a future this bright?
UPDATE: Okay, a few tweaky tricks to get started with...
saf — Safari ab — Address Book [any acronym] — application with that acronym imdb [movie name] ebay [search string] google [search string] [contact name, or any substring] — right arrow for all Address Book details in a list of launchers, or Return to open in Address Book itunes [right arrow] — browse your iTunes Library / (or root) [right arrow] — browse your disk Command+Space repeatedly — cycle through running apps . — auto-URL
It also compensates for typos; I typed "widows" and it found a bunch of Windows links. You can also set up new URL-based launch shortcuts in the Configuration screen, or enable/disable apps with sub-searchability like Watson. Pretty much anything with an acronym abbreviation can be matched using that acronym, too.
From now on, I'm just going to type Command+Space, "pizza", then hit the right arrow, to get the Round Table number. And that's just the beginning.
Now if only they'll take my dang credit card...
UPDATE: As several people have noted, LaunchBar has competitors—QuickSilver in particular. There's apparently some history here, and a rivalry with enthusiasm befitting any such earth-shattering matter...
I'll take this over Watson/Sherlock any day.
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