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LaunchBar is an award winning productivity utility that provides instant access to your applications, documents, contacts and bookmarks, to your iTunes library, to search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name.
New in version 4.3.3
Overview
LaunchBar 4.3.3 improves compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 • Leopard and introduces a new Instant Calculate feature for super-fast calculations based on numbers contained in arbitrary documents. It further includes a bunch of improvements as well as a number of minor bug fixes.
New Features and Improvements
- Instant Calculate: If the text sent via Instant Send appears to be a valid calculator expression, the results are displayed automatically.
- The built-in calculator can now be utilized from external applications via URL commands (e.g.: x-launchbar:calculate?expression=(1+sqrt(5))/2&title=Golden%20Ratio).
- Improved "Files an Folders" indexing rule. The "Skip subfolders" option now allows to skip particular folders as well as folders with a matching name. It's now also possible to drag the desired folders to the list.
- Improved x-launchbar:execute URL command. The new "argument" parameter gets any necessary quoting and escaping applied automatically.
- Added "Send to" support for mailing labels.
- Added support for running "scptd" AppleScript bundles.
- Improved Calculator input on notebook keyboards: The key left from the "1" key can be used to enter a decimal separator.
- Improved auto-detection of thousand separators: In ambiguous cases (e.g. "12.000 + 3,123") LaunchBar now considers the number format as specified in System Preferences > International.
- The Autohiding of LaunchBar can now be turned off temporarily, e.g. to make the selected item a better accessible target for subsequent drag and drop operations. Click the gear wheel icon and choose "Turn Hiding Off" from the menu.
- Improved "Show in Finder" action to work around a bug in Finder.
- Improved compatibility with Safari 3.
- Improved file icon caching.
- Improved sending URLs to applications via "Send to".
- Different types of OmniOutliner documents are now grouped in a single category.
- The "Send to LaunchBar" services menu shortcut has been changed to Command-Shift-F1 to prevent conflicts with some third party applications.
- The "Hide Classic Applications with Command-H" and "Hide Others with Command-Option-H" options have been removed.
Improved Leopard Compatibility
- The appearance of the LaunchBar window has been slightly adjusted to better match the new look of Leopard.
- Developer Documentation index scanner updated for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- Dock index scanner updated for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- Improved compatibility with Time Machine.
- Fixed "Recent Projects" browsing for Xcode 3.
- Fixed a crashing issue with the Sherlock indexing rule on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- Fixed an incompatibility of the "New Mail Message" script with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- LaunchBar now properly considers the system's generic folder icon.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with Calculator's auto-detection of thousand separators.
- Fixed an issue causing Calculator to fail with some Asian keyboard layouts.
- Typing fn-period no longer hides LaunchBar.
- Accidental attempts to move the home folder to the trash are now prevented.
- When placing the bar at the bottom of the screen, there's no longer a one pixel gap below the bar.
- Fixed an issue causing Instant Send to stop working when opening System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse.
- Fixed an issue causing LaunchBar sometimes to become active after quitting other applications.
- Fixed an issue sometimes causing the fade in/out animation to jerk.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused "Look Up in Dictionary" to fail if Dictionary.app wasn't yet running.
- Fixed an issue when playing a disabled iTunes track in "Play from Album" mode.
- Fixed an issue with the iPhoto Library index scanner.
Pricing
• Free, built in evaluation license, sufficient for occasional use
• Home User License $19.95
• Family License $29.95
• Business License $39
• Upgrades from LaunchBar 3 starting at $9.95
For more information, visit:
http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
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