LaunchBar is truly the one utility on my Mac that I’m most dependent upon and would have serious trouble living without. I use it constantly to help keep my fingers productively on the keyboard and not switching off to the trackpad or mouse.
Objective Development, creators of LaunchBar, have recently released a beta version of LaunchBar 5 – and it’s great! Important new features have been added that make your keystrokes even more productive!
Highly Recommended!
Oh, how I yearn for a life without Windows – XP in my particular case. I’ve wasted an hour or two tonight trying to upgrade from some old Norton/Symantec anti-virus stuff on my Windows XP image on my Mac (under Parallels). What a giant waste of time.
It’s great to see that Yahoo! has acquired Inquisitor, one of my all-time favorite Mac add-ons. Inquisitor, written by David Watanabe, has been adding to my Safari browser experience for the last couple of years – and it really makes searching a lot faster for me.
I recently upgraded to Microsoft Office for Mac 2008. After turning off the WYSIWYG font menus (due to the exasperatingly long startup time for Word), changing the default file format back to .doc from .docx, etc., things began to work for me.
I’d always been frustrated with the Paste Special approach to pasting in unstyled text from the clipboard – but had just lived with it in prior versions of Word. Joe Kissell’s spent a couple of hours writing a script that solves this problem in Word 2008. Highly recommended!
I’m a total addict of LaunchBar on my Macs (see Matt Neuberg’s review) – and this morning Lifehacker had a good tip about how to quickly get to a map in Google Maps given an address. I used their technique to add a Search Template to LaunchBar’s configuration page (using the string “http://maps.google.com/maps?q=*”) and now I can quickly get to a map of an address via LaunchBar. Cool! I do wish LaunchBar would let me share its configuration across multiple Macs.
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