Mac OS X Launcher: Alfred
I like this new launcher for OS X: Alfred. It's pretty simple. If you are having stability problems with Quicksilver, or just want something simpler, it's worth checking out.
Call it up with a hotkey (like Ctrl+Space). Start entering letters and it will show you matching apps, bookmarks, and other stuff, including Spotlight comments you've tagged your files with.
Use
You can easily define custom web searches. "google porsche" will do a Google search for "porsche". I added a Yubnub command so I can do things like "yu xe -amount 100 -from USD -to CDN".
And that's it. I like the simplicity.
Call it up with a hotkey (like Ctrl+Space). Start entering letters and it will show you matching apps, bookmarks, and other stuff, including Spotlight comments you've tagged your files with.
Use
open foo to choose a file to open, and find foo to show it in the Finder instead.You can easily define custom web searches. "google porsche" will do a Google search for "porsche". I added a Yubnub command so I can do things like "yu xe -amount 100 -from USD -to CDN".
And that's it. I like the simplicity.
posted by Jonathan at
6/05/2010 11:00:00 a.m.
3 Comments:
Very nice. Only the Remember the Milk plugin for Quicksilver would stop me switching to this.
How did you add the "yu" command? I can't find any documentation for adding commands and I need to write an rtm plugin :)
By
Thomas David Baker, at 6/07/2010 2:32 a.m.
Found it ... "Custom Sites". Not so good if you don't want to open a browser :(
By
Thomas David Baker, at 6/07/2010 3:07 a.m.
@bakert - yeah, Alfred's "Custom Sites" is a rather cumbersome way to add new commands.
By
Jonathan, at 7/21/2011 8:28 p.m.
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