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Alfred is an award-winning productivity application for OS X. Alfred saves you time when you search for files online or on your Mac. Be more productive with hotkeys, keywords, and file actions at your fingertips.
Loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness - free for you to download and use with no strings attached. Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for your Mac. Get it and see for yourself.
Get the Powerpack. Discover the Powerpack, a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred and integrated
Loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness - free for you to download and use with no strings attached. Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for your Mac. Get it and see for yourself.
Get the Powerpack. Discover the Powerpack, a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred and integrated
What's New
Version 2.1.1:
- Add native tag support, with new ‘tags’ keyword which uses 'AND' logic for multiple keywords
- Improved layout for file search prefs for the new tag option
- Better support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks multi-screen, with new appearance option to "Show Alfred on Active Screen"
- In the Contacts Viewer, show addresses in Apple Maps by default, falling back onto Google Maps if Apple Maps isn't available
- Add Apple Maps into default Web searches for users on OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- Show workflow image in notification in OS X 10.9 Mavericks with checkbox to disable in Advanced prefs
- Improvements to the iTunes AppleScript integration
- Fix some preference layout issues in OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- Turn off OS X auto substitution in Alfred's script editor fields (e.g., smart quotes)
- Fix escaping of ! in folder names for 'Open Terminal Here' file action
- Improved selected item mouse hover behaviour in default results
- More resilient inline definitions for non-EN locales
- Stop trailing / being added when copying an optionally escaped path to clipboard
- Update tool chain and to using Xcode 5, improve build scripts
Version 2.1.1:
- Add native tag support, with new ‘tags’ keyword which uses 'AND' logic for multiple keywords
- Improved layout for file search prefs for the new tag option
- Better support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks multi-screen, with new appearance option to "Show Alfred on Active Screen"
- In the Contacts Viewer, show addresses in Apple Maps by default, falling more...
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6 or later
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| Version Downloads:5,140 |
| Type:Productivity |
| License:Free |
| Date:18 Nov 2013 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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Alfred is an award-winning productivity application for OS X. Alfred saves you time when you search for files online or on your Mac. Be more productive with hotkeys, keywords, and file actions at your fingertips.
Loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness - free for you to download and use with no strings attached. Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for your Mac. Get it and see for yourself.
Get the Powerpack. Discover the Powerpack, a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred and integrated with OS X.
Loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness - free for you to download and use with no strings attached. Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for your Mac. Get it and see for yourself.
Get the Powerpack. Discover the Powerpack, a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred and integrated with OS X.
- Single license: £15 for single user
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Zo219 reviewed on 20 Nov 2013
Just sayin'.
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AI_s reviewed on 18 Nov 2013
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YEEZUS reviewed on 25 Oct 2013
I recommend searching for some of the custom themes on the Alfred forums. Makes it look even nicer.
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Mac Os X 4ever reviewed on 20 Sep 2013
It relies on Spotlight data, so if you have Spotlight shut off, like a lot of people do because when you have several TB of data, it slows your system down to a crawl, then this application won't work.
There are many other launchers and applications, including Apple's own Launchpad, that work just fine and don't rely on Spotlight data.
What's the point? If you're going to rely on spotlight data, then you can click on Spotlight and use that.
You would think manually adding all your paths and telling it exactly where your application folders would work, but it doesn't.
There needs to be an options added in the preferences to NOT use Spotlight data, otherwise, there is no point to this application.
I guess I just have to stick with using Apple's Launchpad.
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(Comments are unre-editable because why would a MacUpdate commenter want to ever edit a comment? Crazy idea, let's never implement that on our site,
Yours truly,
The MacUpdate Corporation).
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That you've shut off Spotlight is the problem.
You could use something like LaunchBar that has its own index, but Alfred using the Spotlight index is a GOOD thing; it keeps it lean and mean and fast and there are ALL KINDS OF BENEFITS from it doing that.
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Spotlight is pretty efficient and I doubt the programmers of Alfred could come up with a better indexing mechanism. Also, if Alfred would use a private index, this would use additional disc space - and most users actually do use spotlight. Also, Alfred is so much more than just a launcher - because - it has access to the full spotlight index.
If you don't like this Alfred is the wrong application for you; but to give Alfred 1/2 star because it uses spotlight (and is more than a plain launcher) is the same as if you would give a spreadsheet app 1/2 star for beeing such a poor word processor.
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Relying on Spotlight allows Alfred to avoid slowing down your Mac.
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The Favorites Folder is in your account's Library folder. All I do is drag it to the right side of the dock and install it there. I then install Aliases of every app - or document - I want to launch. You can even add folders to create subgroups. When you click on the Favorite's Folder, it will pop-up a menu of your app aliases. Select what you want to start then there you go!
This is easy to use and it is built in to Mac OS X.
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I have had a new app in my applications folder for about a week, and still Alfred can't see it, even if I type the entire name. It just wants to search the web, and the app is in me Applications folder.
The Mac OS launcher has no problem locating it.
This happens a lot. Alfred just doesn't work, and I hope they can fix it.
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My comment you replied to wasn't a "bad review", if you look at it, you will see that there are no star rating by it at all.
Now that I have discovered the design flaw, and why the application doesn't work at all, I have posted a review.
IDK if you are the developer, because usually the developers say "developer" by their post, but if you are, it is important that you learn the difference between a comment and a review.
I like the application layout, and if it is ever redesigned and fixed, then I will post a new review, but for now, it's totally useless, and I am sticking with Launchpad.
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*Almost* all of this program is for Spotlighters, because it is entirely dependent on mds for search. (This is self-evident, it's not a metadata issue or whatever, it's meant to largely not work with mds off!) So yes entirely mds-dependent... apart from iTunes. And 1Password. And apart from being something to type URL searches into. Yeah, they could have programmed it to use find or locate or something like that as it's backend like EasyFind or Path Finder do and can, or - worst case - it's own - hopefully not too hogging - indexing system, but they are obviously not interested in catering for mds-disablers and never have been.
To say Alfred is *absolutely* useless would not be quite right:
The clipboard manager and 1Password shortcutter have utility.
Using the iTunes player frontend could, for some, just about best not using it, though could see others deeming it pointless bloat for sure.
And one might also find occasional use as a big type-URL-into-a-box-from-anywhere-through-Choosy-into-browser-of-choosing thing.
And guess it might serve as a minutely faster Terminal speeder-upper for the odd command, though have never bothered with it for that.
Might as well vent an additional gripe about Alfred, which is I don't like programs that don't let me have exact sizing and positioning of the interface, this may seem a minor point but Alfred has actually gone backwards on positioning, the box used to just stay exactly where you left it before but not any more. Now you're forced to accept only a rough positioning and width based on a restrictive grid / set of options, so if you want the box precisely x pixels wide and y pixels position, forget it, no can do. Forget picking your own font too, you'll have only the choice of ones the Alfred team decree. (Entering different plist values from the ones the UI offers doesn't subvert this either.).
But very much concur that this could be lovely if they'd only think about the savvy non-mds users which you'd think would be the target clientele really - one wonders why pre-savvy novices would want to bother with an extra launcher like this anyways?
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Ulyssesric reviewed on 08 Aug 2013
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For those who like to type and search inexactly for things, Alfred and the other similar apps can work. Many who use them swear by them. But they tend to love typing in things in search boxes.
I've tried a lot of Launcher app variations including Apple's LaunchPad. I have not found anything better than simply creating a Favorites folder in the Library then placing this folder on the right side of the dock. Simply place aliases of your favorite apps and folders there. This is the best location since you will often have your mouse close to the dock - not up at the menubar.
As with anything, try and see if you love it. If you love it - more power for you.
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Morgan_Alex reviewed on 06 Aug 2013
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Markus Winter reviewed on 19 Jul 2013
ALFRED is exactly the same - it lingered on my MBP for a while, being used from time to time, but it just became more and more often as I gradually got used to using it. And now I hate sitting at a computer which doesn't have it, and if I can, just install it.
Buy the PowerPack even if you don't need it, just to show your appreciation and support to the developer!
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Neartheredrocks reviewed on 29 Jun 2013
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Prlab reviewed on 04 Jun 2013
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