Comments on: Quicksilver vs. Launchbar

By: HAYDEN

HAYDEN — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:48:20 +0000

As old as the hills

By: JayAllen - The Daily Journey

JayAllen - The Daily Journey — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 09:39:15 +0000

Quicksilver: Incredible (free) Mac OS X app

When it comes to software, I tend to be fairly pragmatic. I have many programs and helper apps that I...

By: Peter Thorson

Peter Thorson — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 22:06:38 +0000

Launchbar 4.0 one ups quicksilver by adding all of these features and more. Yay for competition, it makes better products for everybody.

By: TooMuchSexy.blog

TooMuchSexy.blog — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:50:11 +0000

Should LaunchBar be patented?

I recently wrote about LaunchBar, my favorite application in the world. What I failed to mention was that there are two copies out on the market, Quicksilver and Butler. Both of these copy-cat applications have taken Objective Development's original id...

By: JayAllen - The Daily Journey

JayAllen - The Daily Journey — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:58:19 +0000

Quicksilver: Incredible (free) Mac OS X app

When it comes to software, I tend to be fairly pragmatic. I have many programs and helper apps that I...

By: tomster.blog

tomster.blog — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 11:38:49 +0000

Key Power

Although I always like to have the latest gadgets and toys, when it comes to software, I'm rather conservative. I try out all kinds of new applications, but usually dismiss them as 'not good enough to make me change my setup'. So, if an app wants to...

By: Magnus

Magnus — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 12:39:47 +0000

je trouve que Butler et UnAutreLanceur sont mieux.

ich finde, Butler und EinAndereLÃ¤fer sind besser !

I find Butler and AnotherLauncher is much better. http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?thema=butler&id=butlerabout&sprache=deutsch&kopf=labor

By: ::: bisonium.com :::

::: bisonium.com ::: — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:45:58 +0000

OS X Launchers

Jack Mottram compares two popular launchers, Launchbar and Quicksilver, as well as offering some interesting thoughts on running open source/free software on OS X: Quicksilver vs. Launchbar [xlab : a mac os x weblog]...

By: OS X Recommended

OS X Recommended — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:31:39 +0000

QuickSilver

Look out LaunchBar, there's a new kid in town, and he it knows more things than you do. QuickSilver is seriously going to blow LaunchBar out of the water with its numerous features. Not to mention it's also freeware and open source.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:16:20 +0000

I thought about mentioning Butler as well - I tried it out a couple of weeks ago, and didn't take to it at all.

It might just be me, but Butler took about quarter of an hour to fathom out, is way too intrusive, and I didn't like the way you have to feed it abbreviations for files, apps, etc. and add filles to it, rather than have everything scanned for you.

Also, all the default command key combinations interfered with other apps and ExposÃ©. And the documentation kept referring to, e.g. menu bar items that never appeared, and that I could never seem to activate. Not good when I never really needed to look at the documentation for Launchbar, and Quicksilver doesn't seem to have any...

Basically, if something's meant to make my life easier, it shouldn't be so hard to use...