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- Orbiter has been discontinued
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Orbiter Apps
Orbiter allows you to launch applications quickly. Orbiter is meant as a side addition to the Dock.
What's New
Version 1.3.3:
- Fixes failed opening of folder items through menu.
- Cancel updates by pressing 'Esc' or command+W.
Orbiter User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:10,602 |
| Version Downloads:1,009 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Free |
| Date:13 Jul 2010 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Orbiter allows you to launch applications quickly. Orbiter is meant as a side addition to the Dock.
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bye bye orbiter, I hope you develop a killer app someday
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PorkPieHat reviewed on 21 Jul 2010
And the dead zone doesn't stop there. If, like me, you're hyper-curious about useless things laying around, and despite its MacUpdate.com post's nearly complete lack of a description, you downloaded Orbiter to figure it out, you might as well tell your secretary to hold all your calls and cancel your afternoon appointments because the app itself is just as unhelpful as the description. It has NO help files and NO in-app links to the developer's website. Even the disk image you downloaded from MacUpdate has NO README file that describes [NOTHING] or instructs you how to install [NOTHING]! But it does contain a list of changes to [NOTHING] in case you're curious about how [NOTHING] has developed since [NOTHING] was first released on October 19, 2008!
So, you spend 20 minutes trying to figure out what [NOTHING] is, how [NOTHING] works, and whether [NOTHING] can improve your workflow in any meaningful way. What did you discover?
[NOTHING].
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http://orbiterapps.com/products
Folks like you scare me.
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Dr.-Girlfriend reviewed on 22 Sep 2009
If you prefer to use quick keyboard shortcuts (as with QuicksSilver or Launchbar), you might not like this mouse-dependent app.
The GUI is clean, but a bit limited and on the bland side. Suggestion for the dev: add the option for user configurable colors and text. The available choices are too few.
Things you might like:
Orbiter allows item tagging which can really come in handy if you want to organize a group of disparate items and open them simultaneously. Ex: You're building a webpage about bikes. You can tag your source material including pics, docs, sketches, icons, and other media along with the client's invoice and ichat transcripts in Orbiter and open it all at once. In this situation, Orbiter is much quicker than using other apps like QS or Launchbar because these items must be opened individually there.
The simple interface might be preferable to users who find Quicksilver and Launchbar too overwhelming.
Since you manually add only the items you want, the list will stay as small or as large as you like. In other words, you will only be shown choices that you've put there, so you won't have to scroll past "BootCamp Assistant" when you're looking for "Calculator".
All in all, a nice effort. Very nice that it's free ... and Snow Leopard compatible. Cheers!
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Pat320 reviewed on 27 Jul 2009
thx to the developper for this freeware!
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Thank you for leaving a comment! Have you checked out our website?
Here's a direct link to the page where you can see Orbiter's manual and other docs:
http://orbiterapps.com/products
We tried to make it easy for everyone to learn about Orbiter, as mostly our whole website is dedicated to the program, but I guess we'll have to do a better job.
Thank you!
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I will strongly consider your suggestion. As of now, we've decided not to include any help documents since the app appears to be pretty self explanatory and we did not want to increase the download file size. As I explained earlier, full help and support are available at our website through which over 20,000 of our current users have had no problem locating our documentation files. If you decide to contribute by providing additional help docs we would be very happy to link to those and add them to our support page. With Orbiter being free of charge, we would like for our users to every now and then take time to leave positive feedback as it is the only form of thanks we get for our hard work (currently over 80 hours of development invested). Please take the time after you try orbiter, if you like, to come back and leave a comment just like you did today to complain about the supposed lack of documentation.
We would appreciate it.
Kindly,
Developer
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it's also a hassle for users to download a new version every couple of days.
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I appreciate your concern and thank you for leaving a comment. We value our users and want them to have the very best possible version of Orbiter if they so choose. That's why, you can opt to only download major updates (which there has not been any yet: 1.2 will be the first)
You can also choose NOT to be notified of ANY updates.
So, it really is your choice, if you want to run the latest version or not. We think, frequent updates are good and our users like it. If we were to hold off on our updates then we would not be addressing crucial stability and performance issues as they are reported.
I hope you like Orbiter, and please remember to change your update notification settings to "Major Updates Only" that way you won't be bothered.
- Developer
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OldMacUser reviewed on 09 Oct 2008
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http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/launcher.html
I mean no offense to Orbiter. I'm just offering this for what you describe in terms of categories.
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