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LaunchBar is an award winning productivity utility that offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to search and access any kind of information stored on your computer or on the web. It provides instant access to your applications, documents, contacts and bookmarks, to your music library, to search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name.
You just hit Command-Space to bring LaunchBar's input window to front, enter an arbitrary abbreviation, and as soon as you start typing LaunchBar displays the best matching choices, ready to
You just hit Command-Space to bring LaunchBar's input window to front, enter an arbitrary abbreviation, and as soon as you start typing LaunchBar displays the best matching choices, ready to
What's New
Version 5.1.3:
- New - When an address book contact is selected, Shift-Space can be used to quickly create a new email message.
- New - When Terminal.app is selected, press Space to quickly enter a command to be run in a new Terminal window.
- Fixes an issue causing network mounts not to appear in the Mounted Volumes list on OS X Lion.
- Fixes an incompatibility with sandboxed applications on OS X Lion.
- Fixes an issue with when pressing Space on .applescript files.
- Fixes an issue with Calculator on Mac OS X 10.4.
- Adds a private user default named SpaceKeyShowsRelatedURLs for customizing the behavior when pressing Space on URLs.
Version 5.1.3:
- New - When an address book contact is selected, Shift-Space can be used to quickly create a new email message.
- New - When Terminal.app is selected, press Space to quickly enter a command to be run in a new Terminal window.
- Fixes an issue causing network mounts not to appear in the Mounted Volumes list on OS X Lion.
- Fixes an incompatibility more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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LaunchBar is an award winning productivity utility that offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to search and access any kind of information stored on your computer or on the web. It provides instant access to your applications, documents, contacts and bookmarks, to your music library, to search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name.
You just hit Command-Space to bring LaunchBar's input window to front, enter an arbitrary abbreviation, and as soon as you start typing LaunchBar displays the best matching choices, ready to be opened immediately.
Start applications, open documents, invoke system services, compose emails or navigate the web - LaunchBar will be your essential servant.
You just hit Command-Space to bring LaunchBar's input window to front, enter an arbitrary abbreviation, and as soon as you start typing LaunchBar displays the best matching choices, ready to be opened immediately.
Start applications, open documents, invoke system services, compose emails or navigate the web - LaunchBar will be your essential servant.
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Vinkri reviewed on 15 Dec 2011
Does what it says. It's efficient and quick: a simple shortcut and LB is up: type some letters and it will select the relevant items.
Exactly what Quicksilver does, faster and 100% cheaper.
Right, you can't do some of the stuff you can do with Launchbar (write an email or drag n drop stuff).
Who cares? I don't.
I really believe that Launchbar is too expensive for what it does, especially with a competitor like Quicksilver: more reliable and more intuitive.
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But what is the use of all those features that Quicksilver got if they're hard to find an unintuitive!
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Rasputinsrevengereloadet reviewed on 08 Dec 2011
Tried QuickSilver maybe I was to stupid for it ...
Tried Alfred maybe it was to stupid for me ...
Love LaunchBar!
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Eightholding reviewed on 05 Nov 2011
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Alessandro82 reviewed on 24 Oct 2011
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Better yet, if you press-and-hold the last key of a shortcut, it opens without having to press return. E.g. I use 'S' for System Preferences, so I can open it by hitting cmd-space, then just press-and-hold 'S' and it opens. LaunchBar rocks.
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Steadysignal reviewed on 22 Sep 2011
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Mauricio Quito reviewed on 07 Sep 2011
You may also find a complete review on it at [url]blog.mauricioquito.com[/url]
Enjoy
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influous reviewed on 21 Jul 2011
My only reservation is that some of the inbuilt understanding of how specific applications store data (presumably in something difficult to parse by normal means) is well out-of-date. For example, the non-Apple email applications supported are Eudora, Entourage, Outlook Express and Mailsmith; all of those are either moribund or no longer developed. Similarly, some browsers (e.g. Opera) are not supported in their latest versions, and a number of supported search engines are again moribund or even non-existent (e.g. Cuil).
However, that reservation is relatively minor; the handling of files, folders, services and other Apple facilities is perfect.
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Espiridion reviewed on 17 Jul 2011
I have plenty of alternative launchers, and always return to LaunchBar. And launching applications and documents is only part of its features. If I need to send an email or call a contact, launchBar gives me the information I need quickly and easily.
Unobtrusive, affordable (particularly since paid upgrades are not that frequent), and still compatible with my old G5 PPC.
I rarely use the calculator except for some quick operations, and never use the pasteboard function.
I agree with Parkerbennet regarding the "red highlighted app treatment" which used to be called Editor's Pick at VersionTracker. These days I don't pay much attention to those highlighted programs, and some are actually mediocre. I do wish that idiotic ratings would stop. Just look at the ½ star ratings that Chadcn enjoys giving to a lot of decent applications, including LaunchBar.
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Parkerbennett reviewed on 17 Jul 2011
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http://www.obdev.at/launchbar/download.html
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Glad to help. Didn't want someone to give LB a low rating because of a bug!
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I'm not sure if it's because i'm also giving googledesktop search/service a trial run which is also currently indexing everything (multiple drives are attached by firewire 400 at times) or if it's just cuz LaunchBar is high cpu usage on ppc g5 running 10.4.11 or the combination of what I have on my system is just not compatible (for instance I'm turning to these spotlight alternatives b/c spotlight just completely stopped working for no reason that I can determin.
Plus, the console is FULL of these MDs related errors:
# Can't checkin with server named com.apple.metadata.mdserver, error 0x10000004"
# SystemUIServer[208] /SourceCache/Matador/Matador-121.36/SearchItem/Models/_MDQueryAdaptor.m -[_MDQueryAdaptor _createMDQuery] Can't execute query 'kMDItemContentTypeTree == com.apple.application && _kMDItemIgnore != *
# diskarbitrationd[45]: mds [185]:14907 not responding
any feedback or tips greatly appreciated b/c I cannot figure out what's happened (I have archived reinstalled system twice & spotlight always breaks)--thanks for taking the time to read and help if you can!
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When I switch to using Chinese input, launchbar doesn't seem to respond with any keystroke.
Only English is working on mine.
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Elmer rated on 22 Jan 2012
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nekomamma rated on 25 Nov 2011
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Kgx rated on 23 Oct 2011
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