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LaunchBar - 5.0.2

Open apps, files, and URLs via abbreviation.

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All Time:	(4.8)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	5.0.2
Release Date:	2009-11-04
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	830
Downloads (all versions):	7,795
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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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

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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.

Why would you pay for this? - Version: 5.0 beta 6, 2/27/2009 09:07PM PST

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markli2

The gorgeous Himmelbar from Softbend does all your pull down menus for nothing while Finderpop (now in version 2.0) gives you all the contextual menues and searches you could possibly think of.

Both are quality products and both are free. I can't think of a single reason why Launchbar would be worth giving them up and paying 20 bucks.

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Obviously, LB is NOT for You

Why would you pay for this?

Why would you pay for this?