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:
- Finder Browsing: Select Finder and press Right Arrow to get a list of all folders that are currently opened in Finder.
- Improved Services support. If a service provides a return value, this value is now selected in LaunchBar.
- Improved HTML bookmark scanner: Added support for URLs relative to bookmark file.
- Improved “Quit Application”, “Toggle Mute”, “iTunes - Rewind” and “iTunes - Fast Forward” scripts.
- When opening the Calculator by selecting and opening the Calculator script, the previous calculation now gets selected so that it can be overridden by typing a new calculation.
- “Play from Music Library” no longer brings iTunes to front when playing a song, but starts playback in background.
- Added “Start Screen Saver” to built-in scripts.
- Improved some icons for Leopard.
- Append Text now preserves the file's creation date.
- Added FAQ item to Help menu.
- Fixed a problem when searching the LaunchBar Help in Help Viewer.
- Fixed an issue causing Firefox history indexing to fail.
- Fixed a minor display glitch in the indexing progress window.
- Fixed an issue when showing the list of mounted volumes on Leopard. Follow the link and
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