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.
Version 5.4.1:
- Improved compatibility with iTunes 11.
- Improved accessibility (VoiceOver support) in index window.
- Redesigned toolbar icons in index window.
- Redesigned iTunes icons for Artist, Album and Track.
- Improved compatibility with SparkleShare.
- Improved Dash.app support. Selecting Dash.app and pressing Space now triggers the "Look up in Dash" action. It’s also possible to send a search string to Dash.app via Instant Send.
- Instant Send can now also handle shell-escaped file paths.
- Updated ADC documentation indexer to support iOS6 and Xcode 4.5 documentation.
- Improved indexing and display of mounted volumes.
- Improved "Switch to Calculator when typing digits" preference option. It’s now possible to enter abbreviations that start with a digit (e.g. "1P" in order to select "1Password"), even when this preference option is turned on. Therefore we’ve now turned on this option, even if was explicitly turned off before (but you can turn it off again, if you really don’t want to use it, even now with its improved behavior).
- Improved "Copy Name" action. Copies all names (separated with line breaks) in case of multiple file selections.
- Improved display of an app’s recent documents.
- Improved display of working directory when entering Terminal commands.
- Improved "Assign Abbreviation" and "Show in Index" commands. These commands now properly consider the "Access items via sub-search only" option.
- During text input (e.g. when entering text argument for a script or a search template) it’s now possible to trigger spell checking with the standard Command-; shortcut.
- Improved detection of labeled email addresses during Instant Send.
- Minor calculator improvements.
- Fixes a bug in Dialectic integration.
- Fixes an issue causing iTunes’ "Go to Current Song" command to fail when playing a song via LaunchBar.
- Fixes an issue causing the "Show in iTunes" action to fail.
- Fixes an issue that caused LaunchBar not to hide after receiving a file via drag & drop.
OS X 10.6.8 or later
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