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LaunchBar rules!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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LaunchBar has got to be one of the coolest utilities I've ever seen for the Mac. It's a menu item that indexes your bookmarks, email addresses, files (and god knows what else) and gives you easy shortcut access to them.
I've only played around with it a little, but it claims to "learn" the shortcuts you use and get smarter as you use it more. Really simple, but well done and extremely useful. Check it out...
http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: New Yawk
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Yes, I've been using that for a bit. You get completely addicted very quickly; I paid my $20 fee a few days after trying it out.
The "learning" works remarkably well, also. If they cut down the indexing time I'd be even happier. =)
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"Do not be too positive about things. You may be in error." (C. F. Lawlor, The Mixicologist)
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Trana
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I hope it doesn't fall victim to all the good press. Looking at the reviews on VT would make anybody wary: they're all so glowing.
Come to think of it, I think I'll post a few slams. God I love LB.
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"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: May 2001
Location: New York, NY, USA
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Bump. This utility reads your mind. Freaky, uptight-and-outta-sight.
Remember those rumors about finder-integrated search facility in OS X that, similar to iTunes, found stuff before you were done typing? That's what this does, and more. fifty stars.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Capital city of the Empire State.
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LaunchBar is so good, it's scarey! 
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/mal
"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
MacBook Pro 15" w/ Mac OS 10.8.2, iPhone 4S & iPad 4th-gen. w/ iOS 6.1.2
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Eagan, MN
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I never bought a piece of software as fast as I did with LaunchBar...
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Cybertron
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Payed for it exactly 2 days after downloading it 
That was more than half a year ago.....and I'd pay the fee again...anytime.
It is simply awesome !!
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Retired
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I just tried it and I must say I'm impressed. This thing has esp! 
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Power Macintosh Dual G4
SGI Indigo2 6.5.21f
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Baltimore, MD
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Ok, this is great. I love it!
Update: I just bought a license 
[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: nonhuman ]
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: usa
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It's funny, the only reason I downloaded it was because I couldn't believe that LB was as good as every was saying it was. Sure enough, all the compliments payed to it were an understatement IT RULES!
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: California
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I have to agree that Launchbar rules! It has made my doc almost a forgotten thing, poor little guy, scrunched up into the corner now, with only the finder and a couple of folders in it, ha! I'm ready to pay up, but am wondering, when you pay, do they send you an SN or something so that I can apply it to both of my macs or do I have to pay twice?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: usa
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<phrenzy>
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Wow, this thing does rule - I especially like how it co-exists nicely with ASM - they both just sit in their places - very nice...
I'll be buying this one...
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<Unregistered>
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Sorry to rain on everybody's parade, but LB crashed my system (G4500 Cube, 640 meg ram) into a hard freeze every time I attempted to awake from sleep or restart from a shutdown. I could only restart from Norton Utilities, ran Norton and it came up with major errors in B-tree, volume header (?), and the like. Removed LB and my system worked just fine. Just for the helluva it, I re-downloaded it, reinstalled it and the same thing happened. It's now off my system.
Tony
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Apr 2001
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OK, I have LB, but I'm just struggling to figure out what to use it for. Can you all explain how you use it in the course of getting your work done?
It looks very powerful, I just need a little spoon feeding.
K
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: California
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Just hit command-space, then type the first 1 or 2 letters of the app or website or whatever that you want to switch to. A list appears in the corner, choose the right one and hit enter. Next time you use the same keystroke, that app or website or whatever will be toward the top, maybe even at the top if you use it alot, sooner or later you will learn to use certain keystrokes for certain apps and then they will always be at the top so you just hit return and it opens. Its quite nice. For example, I have it trained to that P gives me System Prefs, PP gives me Powerpoint, and PS gives me photoshop, etc. The more you use it the more efficient it gets, I Love it!
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