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LaunchBar - 4.0.beta1

open app, file, url, contacts via abbreviation

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All Time:	(4.8)
Version 4.0.beta1:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	4.0.beta1
Release Date:	2004-03-31
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 4.0.beta1):	12,719
Downloads (all versions):	8,047
Price:	$19.95

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Product Description:

LaunchBar is a productivity utility that offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to control your computer. It provides instant access to thousands of documents, folders, bookmarks, email addresses and phone numbers, applications and preference panes 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:

Brand new configuration interface
Fast, multithreaded indexing engine, performing live index updates in background
Web Search (e.g. Google)
Hierarchical Browsing: iTunes Music Library, Address Book, Bookmarks, Web Browser History, Folders, ...
Switching Network Locations
Running Apple Scripts and Unix Executables, passing string parameters
Open with..., Move/Copy to...
Sub-Search / Context Search: e.g. search for Applications only
Smart Groups: similar items are grouped automatically
Text Clips: insert predefined text fragments
Renaming files, creating new folders
Improved search technology AASv3 for amazing accurate results

... and much, much more - click here for a detailed listing

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 4.0.beta1:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.8)	Support:	(4.8)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(4.7)

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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.