Launchbar 6 review12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In the figure above, I typed “AA” and the first item in the list is Adobe Audition (highlighted). LaunchBar’s contextual menu (right) offers options for the selected item.Īnd LaunchBar learns what you search for most frequently and often predicts what you’re looking for before you’ve typed more than one or two characters. But only LaunchBar lets you do much more with items in that list, such as copying, moving, renaming, and compressing files or folders, controlling most of iTunes, and instant web searches, all without touching the mouse or trackpad. Like Spotlight, just type a few characters and a list of files appears almost instantly. LaunchBar seems similar to OS X Yosemite’s Spotlight at first glance, but it’s much more powerful and configurable. Since I feel more productive when my fingers are on the keyboard, all three utilities include lots of keyboard functionality you won’t find in OS X. So here are three utilities I use many times every day to save me time, keystrokes, or both. Clair Software adds features and shortcuts to Open and Save dialogs (to make opening and saving files faster and easier). ![]() For example, a word processor mimics a pen, typewriter, and/or paste-up board a spreadsheet mimics an accountant’s ledger pad and a calculator app mimics, well, a handheld calculator.Ī utility, on the other hand, does something exclusive to a computer with no real world counterpart. What’s the difference? In my mind, an application (aka “program” or “app”) mimics something from the real world. Someone recently asked me about my “must-have” applications for Mac OS X Yosemite and I realized most of them are utilities, not applications. ![]()
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