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LaunchBar - 4.1 beta 3

open apps, files, URLs & more via abbreviation

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All Time:	(4.8)
Version 4.1 beta 3:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	4.1 beta 3
Release Date:	2006-01-12
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 4.1 beta 3):	3,620
Downloads (all versions):	8,089
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:

LaunchBar 4.1 is now available as a Universal binary version which runs natively on Intel based Macs. It delivers significantly improved performance (searches are now performed up to twice as fast, much faster startup, etc.), provides a whole bunch of new options for opening items (which are now listed in detail in LaunchBar's context menu), supports color labels, vastly improves iTunes support (introduces "Best Of Lists", "Primary Artists", Party Shuffle support, and more), improves Address Book support (simplifies the opening of contacts, supports contact notes), features new "Search in Spotlight" and "Look Up in Dictionary" functionality as well as lots of other improvements and bug fixes.

A detailed listing of all changes is available at http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/releasenotes.html.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 4.1 beta 3:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.5)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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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

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

vanrey

The most useful utility I know!

Works like a charm... - Version: 4.3.7, 6/12/2009 01:58PM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

dsphelps

I've been using this for years now, and though I have stuck with ver. 4.3.7 because it seems to be faster on my G3, I can totally recommend it as a must-have. Spend some time going through the documentation and playing around with it and you will be amazed at what it can do: open apps and folders, bookmarks, control iTunes, look up in Google, Amazon, etc., all from a tiny bar. Have tried similar freeware but keep coming back to this. It helps to peer under the hood, though, to really discover all the uses.