![]() ![]() Setup of LaunchBar is orders of magnitude easier than Quicksilver. Web searches are quoted properly, you can search for "Bob Marley & the Wailers" and get the proper results Here is a rundown of some of the features that make it one of the best I've used. There are a lot of really nice features in LaunchBar. In the week and a half that I've been using it, the program has really exceeded all my expectations. Most of them are bearable, but sometimes it can be really annoying when you are trying to get something done fast. Quicksilver has been plagued with some really strange issues for quite some time. That has turned out to be an excellent choice. I recently overheard Andi Zeidler talking about LaunchBar on Twitter, so I decided to give it a try. While there are still some folks working on the open source version, it has been a slow process. This was pretty much the beginning of the end for QS. Quicksilver was recently open sourced, since the lead developer now works for Google and their launcher product called Google Quick Search Box. ![]() Quicksilver has been my "launcher" of choice for quite some time now and before that I was using Butler, which I originally tried out because of its clipboard implementation. I guess "launcher" is a really bad term for it, in reality it's a "do a bunch of awesome stuff thingamajig", but that's not easy to say. I need to be able to manipulate the item from the launcher, not just open it. On OS X there is always the Spotlight functionality, but that has never satisfied my needs. It is really painful when there isn't one available, "How the hell do I open an application?!?!". A good app launcher makes all the difference in the world to me. ![]()
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