Existing users, 
LaunchBar
Open apps, files, and URLs via abbreviation.
Version: 5.0.2
Will ship with every mac...
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: fabsgwu2 Monday, June 28 2004 @ 06:01 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
in the form of Searchlight in Tiger 10.4 ;)~ LaunchBar isn't my bag, but some people like it. To each his own launcher...
Comments
Spotlight - sjk
Apps like LaunchBar will possibly benefit from using Tiger's metadata engine technology.Tuesday, June 29 2004 @ 10:55 PM PDT
Will ship with every mac... - DavidRavenMoon
Spotlight is a search engine, LaunchBar is (amongst other things) a launcher. Not the same thing at all!Here's the difference. Say I want to launch Mail... I press Cmd-Space and type "mail" and hit enter.
With Spotlight you would get a listing of everything with the word "mail" in it. They you would have to select the Mail application, and I suppose you might be able to launch it from the list.
Wednesday, June 30 2004 @ 05:20 AM PDT
Will ship with every mac... - Jeff Mincey
Care to run this difference by me again? With LaunchBar, say you want to run Eudora as your mail client. You type command-spacebar-eud and then scroll through a list of all on the selected disk volume with "eud" in the name (or at the beginning of the name). You must then scroll through the list to pick the correct one.With Spotlight, you would initiate a search (by whatever key sequence), scroll through the list of files that meet your search criteria, and then launch the one you want.
Sounds the same to me. After all, who wants to search for something and then not subsequently run it, open it, view it, etc?
Monday, July 05 2004 @ 10:57 PM PDT
Will ship with every mac... - maxt1_dotmac
Uh, actually. Type cmd-eud once and then select Eudora from the list. Thereafter you would get Eudora every time you type cmd-eud. So, this is quite a substantial difference.Saturday, July 17 2004 @ 09:27 PM PDT
Will ship with every mac... - ddelong
With Spotlight, you're spelling has to be exact (Eud). With Launchbar, you can pick random letters (TE for Text Edit for example). There is a difference. I'd like to see Launchbar use the underlying database though.Thursday, July 29 2004 @ 11:00 AM PDT
Will ship with every mac... - clvrmnky
You mean Spotlight, perhaps?
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Monday, June 28 2004 @ 06:05 PM PDT