Launchbar 5 4 3 – Powerful Fileurlemail Launcher Utility
Launchbar 5 4 3 – Powerful Fileurlemail Launcher Utility
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. Use LaunchBar for free! In addition to a 30-day trial period LaunchBar 6 can be used for free as long and as often as you like. It just occasionally invites you to take a short break, allowing you to breathe and relax. Get LaunchBar now. And now it’s my term to praise LaunchBar, with the release of LaunchBar 4.3.2 (; business license, $39; home license, $20; 5-user family pack, $30). Learning LaunchBar.
- Launchbar 5 4 3 – Powerful Fileurlemail Launcher Utility Vehicle
- Launchbar 5 4 3 – Powerful Fileurlemail Launcher Utility Block
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| Developer(s) | Objective Development Software GmbH |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1996 |
| Stable release | 6.13.1 (September 15, 2020; 40 days ago[1]) [±] |
| Written in | Objective-C |
| Operating system | macOS |
| Available in | English, German |
| Type | Application launcher |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | http://www.obdev.at/launchbar |
LaunchBar is an application launcher for macOS. It provides access to user's applications and files, by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name. It uses an adaptive algorithm that 'learns' a user's preferred abbreviations for a particular application. For example, after training, Adobe Photoshop may be launched by simply typing 'pho' and Time Machine can be opened by typing 'tm' even though that sequence of characters does not appear anywhere in the name of the application.
LaunchBar also provides capabilities beyond application launching, such as file management and piping the current selection to a command line utility, along with clipboard management and a built-in calculator.
LaunchBar is distributed as cripplewareshareware - full usage of the application requires paying the registration fee, but up to 7 abbreviations may be used per session without paying anything.
According to user interface researcher Bruce Tognazzini, 'LaunchBar should be able to outperform a visual interface for complex, repetitive switching sequences by an expert user'.[2]
History[edit]
LaunchBar began as a series of shell scripts for the NeXTSTEP platform, then migrated to OPENSTEP where it was developed into a full-fledged application. It was ported to Mac OS X in 2001 as LaunchBar 3.
In 2005, Apple introduced Spotlight, which took over LaunchBar's default position at the top-right corner of the screen. In response, LaunchBar was changed to display its window at the center of the screen, below the menu bar.[3]
Launchbar 5 4 3 – Powerful Fileurlemail Launcher Utility Vehicle
In 2014, LaunchBar 6 was released with a redesigned interface, additional indexing rules and built-in actions, live web searches and usage statistics.[4][5]
See also[edit]
Launchbar 5 4 3 – Powerful Fileurlemail Launcher Utility Block
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References[edit]
- ^'Release Notes – LaunchBar 6'. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
- ^'Make Your Mac a Monster Machine'. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
- ^'New LaunchBar proves Apple hasn't killed app launchers yet'. Cult of Mac. June 11, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
- ^'LaunchBar 6 Released'. LaunchBar. June 11, 2014.
- ^'LaunchBar 6 review: Do-everything utility gets (and looks) even better'. Macworld. June 16, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
Launchbar 5 4 3 – Powerful Fileurlemail Launcher Utility