Comments on: Power Tools – introduction to Application Software Launchers

By: evanx

evanx — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:10:09 +0000

for linux there is also gnome-Do (http://do.davebsd.com/) which according to the website also works on kde.

By: The quickest way ever to launch any application or website at Alaeddin’s Blog

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:03:49 +0000

[...] you’re unfamiliar with what an application launcher is, here is a short description: Application Launcher is a fancy term for a simple tool – a piece of software that stays in the [...]

By: mathew

mathew — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:02:32 +0000

Namely is also a good one for Mac OS X users…

It’s like spotlight, only faster, easier, it learns what apps you use most, and it is just all around better (in my opinion).

http://amarsagoo.info/namely/index.shtml

By: Can the iPhone get YOUR things done? - Hack the Day

Can the iPhone get YOUR things done? - Hack the Day — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:18:16 +0000

[...] hands of the QuickSilver creator(QuickSilver is the world-famous application software launcher we’ve written a while ago). The technical wonder doing this is called Telekinesis and allows you to stream music and movies, [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:07:13 +0000

Keybreeze is my preferred launcher of choice. It’s like a merge of Launchy, Autohotkey, and Google Desktop all together. Plus it’s lightweight and free.

By: JM

JM — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:07:19 +0000

I have looked at many. The only one that is still installed and useful is sTabLauncher. (Windows)

Free, works, easy to configure. (I can drag icons from desktop to launcher or drag them arround)

Very configurable.

Colorful.

FREE…. So I can give it to clients.

http://stablauncher.com/

Take a look at the screen shorts http://stablauncher.com/screenshots.htm
This gives you a good idea how it will work.

By: Buzz Bruggeman

Buzz Bruggeman — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:10:25 +0000

When you have a moment, why don’t we talk, and let me show you some stuff. Also, take a look at our vision, i.e. http://www.activewords.com/vision.html .

Not sure any of our competitors have thought a lot of this stuff through.

Buzz

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:48:49 +0000

Hi Kal,
Thanks for your comment, keep them coming as informative and enthusiastic as possible

I’m not sure if AutoHotKey does the application launching part that QuickSilver & co do, I’ll look into it as I’ve never used it.
Any tip is welcome here, so we’ll probably have very soon a few articles dedicated to AutoHotKey and other apps in its class.
Once again, thanks for the input!

By: Kal_Torak

Kal_Torak — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:28:07 +0000

My power tool of choice is AutoHotKey.
http://www.autohotkey.com/

It is a powerful automation tool with a fully loaded scripting language. I use it to automate all my repetitive tasks including: Hotkeys for launching applications, hotkeys to launch my webbrowser and pull up the Wikipedia page for the word that is currently on the clipboard, Auto-replace abbreviations, create macros for gaming, and even defrag my harddrive regularly. I also wrote an application with it to monitor my typing speed in real time, and record it over time, and create statistics for me.

That reads like an advertisement, but that’s because I’m such an enthusiast about it.

With Autohotkey, you don’t need anything else.