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Title: Choosing the right launcher for your Mac Post by: HCK on March 27, 2015, 03:00:10 am Choosing the right launcher for your Mac
<article> <section class="page"> <p> If you’re still manually digging around in folders looking for apps to launch and documents to open, it’s time to stop. You can save tremendous amounts of time and energy by using a launcher utility instead, which can open apps and files, as well as perform calculations, search the Web, run scripts, and do all sorts of other laborsaving tricks. </p><p> In this roundup, we put four all-purpose, keyboard-based launchers to the test: Running with Crayons’ Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com) (free, but £17/$26 for the highly recommended Powerpack option), Many Tricks’ Butler (http://manytricks.com/butler/) ($20), Objective Development’s LaunchBar (http://www.obdev.at/index.html) ($29), and the Quicksilver Project’s open-source Quicksilver (http://qsapp.com) (free).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2902174/choosing-the-right-keyboard-based-launcher-utility.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Choosing the right launcher for your Mac (http://www.macworld.com/article/2902174/choosing-the-right-keyboard-based-launcher-utility.html#tk.rss_all) |