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LaunchBar 6 review: Do-everything utility gets (and looks) even better

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<p><strong>LaunchBar (http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html)</strong>, the keyboard-based app that offers a faster way to open the applications and files you use most, started 20 years ago (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/developer/2003/09/25/innovators.html) as a folder full of shell scripts that could be triggered by a specific abbreviation typed into a Terminal shell. It was clever, but clunky. It didn’t take long, however, for the developers behind LaunchBar, Objective Development (http://www.obdev.at/index.html), to realize that their folder full of scripts would be much more powerful as an actual launching application—as a bar that helps you launch things—with an index of everything on the computer, thus allowing the app itself to figure out what it is you’re searching for.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2363266/launchbar-6-review-do-everything-utility-gets-and-looks-even-better.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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