LaunchBar 4.2b2 review

LaunchBar is an award winning productivity utility that offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to control your computer.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 945K Developer: Objective Development Buy Now Price: $19.00 Updated: 05 Dec 2006

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LaunchBar is an award winning productivity utility that offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to control your computer. It provides instant access to thousands of files and folders, contacts and bookmarks, applications and preference panes just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name.

all you have to do is 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.

Here are some key features of "LaunchBar":
Access a wide range of different resources by entering short abbreviations
Ultra fast, adaptive search algorithm (AASv4), automatically learns from the user's habits
Quick activation using a system wide hotkey
Switch between running applications
Launch applications, open documents, pictures, audio files, folders, etc.
Direct access to all System Preferences panes
Access your bookmarks and browser history to quickly open web pages
Access your address book to quickly create email messages, retrieve phone numbers and other contact information
Browse your entire hard disk, access invisible files and file package contents
Extensive drag & drop capabilities
Unobtrusive user interface
Powerful configuration options