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LaunchBar - 5.0.2

Open apps, files, and URLs via abbreviation.

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	5.0.2
Release Date:	2009-11-04
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	1,296
Downloads (all versions):	8,261
Price:	$19.95

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Product Description:

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.

What's new in this version:

Note: Due to a necessary change in the internal representation of service items, existing abbreviation bindings for these items are not preserved. It may be necessary to re-train (or re-assign) the affected abbreviations.
Fixed: Services didn't work on non-English systems.
Improved Services indexing, avoiding duplicates if an application is installed twice or more.
Fixed a memory leak during Services indexing.
Fixed an issue causing the "open location" AppleScript command to fail if invoked in the context of LaunchBar.
Fixed an issue with "Hide Dock Icon".
Fixed: Due to a bug in Mac OS X some categories were labeled with an incorrect name (e.g. Preview Documents instead of PDF Documents).
Fixed: Sending text to applications by pressing Tab didn't work with some applications and it didn't work at all on non-English systems.
Added Wolfram Alpha search template to factory configuration.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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Must have - Version: 5.0.2, 12/1/2009 01:27PM PST

Pacoloco

Hate being on a computer without it.

Superb product. - Version: 5.0.2, 11/15/2009 11:56AM PST

igamogam

When I use other Macs I am lost without this software.

LaunchBar can do what other launchers do but the other stuff is just amazing. I haven't used spotlight directly in nearly two years (which is a blessing) and the ability to jump between locations, folders, programs and projects easily without having to think cannot be replicated easily using another launcher as far as I know.

Superb!

The MUST have util! - Version: 5.0rc3, 7/7/2009 12:07PM PST

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vanrey

The most useful utility I know!