Comments on: MPU 007: LaunchBar Blackbelt

By: 5-piece Mac-Ninja kit | Academic workflows on Mac

5-piece Mac-Ninja kit | Academic workflows on Mac — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:16:07 +0000

[...] LaunchBar allows you to launch an application, send flies by email, append text to notes, make calculations, all without touching your mouse or switching between applications. If a Mac does not have LaunchBar I don’t even know what to do with it. I’ve learned about LaunchBar BlackBelt from Episode 7 of MacPowerUsers. [...]

By: fellowweb

fellowweb — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:03:04 +0000

As the link to the Tea Timer Dashboard widget doesn’t work anymore, MacSparky has been so kind as to provide me with a new link which I’d like to share:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/food/teatimer.html

I have also found the developers blog in case Apple really shuts down its Download pages:

http://stefan.sofa-rockers.org/teatimer/

By: Warwick Davis

Warwick Davis — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:59:04 +0000

As a result of your podcast I decided to try launchbar instead of quicksilver. Its early weeks but I would say for me in 90% of use cases its a better tool than QS and whilst I still miss a few QS features I won’t be going back.

I discovered one thing today though that I had to share for anyone who doesn’t know. I use delicious as my primary bookmark manager and I discovered LB will bring up your delicious tags. I wanted my isp’s home page url and discovered an option for “warwick’s isp tags in delicious” so up came the home page along with the key spots within their site that I had tagged. 2 clicks and i’m deep into their site. Very cool.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:38:24 +0000

Add a search command like this: http://www.facebook.com/search.php?&q=*

Here is documentation on how to do that:
http://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/SearchTemplates.html

Hope this help!

By: Reza

Reza — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:54:47 +0000

Hi,
One of the launchbar’s most useful features is the clipboard manager which keeps a specified number of clipboard contents for later use.
You can assign a shortcut for revoking it and then preview and select anyone of previous copied items.
I’ve found it very helpful specially during writing process.

About the Firewire speed compare to gigabit ethernet, I guess it’s because firewire is a full-duplex connection but gigabit ethernet between two Macs is half-duplex.

Again thanks for your great podcast.

By: PhilosopherDog

PhilosopherDog — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:22:39 +0000

Just catching up on some of your shows and was listening to this one. A couple of thoughts. I think that the current iteration of Quicksilver is very stable. I’ve had stability issues in the past, but since going open source it has improved vastly. Although I haven’t used LB much, I’m not really seeing anything there that isn’t in QS except perhaps Quick Look. However, LB does lack a lot of the functionality of QS, such as Delicious bookmarks, triggers, and most importantly 3rd party plugins, such as 1Password! Also, QS is FREE, or at least donationware. I’m having a hard time seeing why I should switch to LB under the circumstances. Sure it’s not under active development, but other than stability issues, which I think have been largely rectified, the program seems to be far superior to LB, and most of extensibility happens through 3rd party plugins not developer updates like LB. The other thing I find odd is needing to launch urls from a launcher. Learning a few browser key combos makes that inefficient IMO. Command L on a mac will get you into the url bar, with the previous address highlighted. Once you visit an address it will come up as soon as you begin typing it. Heck in Firefox you can set it up to search on your favourite search engine as well as match recently visited sites. I’d like to see you do that in LB. This isn’t an efficient use of a launcher in my view. Anyhow, check out the latest stable release of Quicksilver. I think it’s better than it ever was.

By: Application launchers « notes of chris

Application launchers « notes of chris — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:54:28 +0000

[...] three of these had quite extensive documentation, and I listened to a very informative podcast about [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:36:36 +0000

I like LaunchBar, but Quicksilver still does what I need it to do. When Quicksilver gets pried away from my by instability or system brokenness, I know LB will be there. Until then, though, QS still does what I need it to do.

By: TextExpander Wins – Episode 6 « Making the Switch

TextExpander Wins – Episode 6 « Making the Switch — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:31:35 +0000

[...] Mac Power User Podcast spotlight on LaunchBar: MPU007 [...]

By: JPReding

JPReding — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:29:39 +0000

Hey! I’m loving the podcast. Starting from the beginning and rolling through them all. Tried Quicksilver but find that LaunchBar is has a much easier learning curve and I love it!

One question…

Is there a way to do a facebook search in a similar fashion to google search?

By: Chip Morris

Chip Morris — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:06:02 +0000

I just found your podcast via stalking Merlin Mann. The LaunchBar episode was very helpful to me, and I’m looking forward to perusing the remaining archives. Well done!

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:21:43 +0000

BTW:
Zettts Screencasts are nice. But don’t forget Don. He has two great ones:
http://www.screencastsonline.com/index_files/SCO0223-launchbar5pt1.php
http://www.screencastsonline.com/index_files/SCO0225-launchbar5pt2.php

I also shared some Quicktipps regarding LaunchBar recently.
http://vimeo.com/channels/quicktipps

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:10:37 +0000

@T. J. Lahey
I find Quickcal even more useful due to its smart reminders.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:16:36 +0000

Thanks guys…

I found you via the Merlin interview.. like hundreds of other no doubt.

I never really “got” the appeal of Quicksilver or Launchpad til i listed to this today..

Thanks

By: T. J. Lahey

T. J. Lahey — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:55:18 +0000

The Timer script for Launchbar discussion moved to a different thread and someone pointed out the really nice script located discussed at,

http://justinblanton.com/2010/02/launchbar-timer

It’s simple to understand and quite useful.

I’m not really a fan of the add event features of Launchbar. I find the syntax difficult to remember so it becomes a bit fiddly. Instead, I use FlexCal (http://www.flexgames.com/flexcal/) which installs as a preference pane. Since I use Things for my tasks, I set FlexCal to create events by default and after a keystroke, it pops up a pane to set up the event.

By: Ignobilitor

Ignobilitor — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:43:37 +0000

Max, Vicki, Jay, and especially Katie (since you referred in the podcast to using the Recent Documents feature to access Word documents, which is clearly not possible, as you’ll know in a second): the right arrow or space bar to access Recent Documents works only with Cocoa applications. Word is not a Cocoa application.

By: 14 Everyday Mac Apps | The Age of Will

14 Everyday Mac Apps | The Age of Will — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:19:59 +0000

[...] works, but I sure did miss quicksilver. Then I heard about LaunchBar on the Mac Power Users podcast and decided to give it a try. I ended up buying it a couple of days into the free trial. It [...]

By: Max

Max — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:47:50 +0000

Great podcast !

One problem: I also cannot get the “show recent docs” to work, either with the Space command ( shows file in Quick Look) or the R-arrow key ( per poster, above).

How do I ennable the Recent Docs feature ?

Best,

Max

By: Sud Kila

Sud Kila — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:27:56 +0000

Best podcast for mac. Love the way you interact and get along with each other.
Most shows with multiple hosts try to highlight their presence. You two are awesome.

By: Malthe Østergreen

Malthe Østergreen — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:40:22 +0000

Thanks for the podcast. Very informative. Very good job! I’ve subscribed and will look forward to listening to the others. And thanks, Zett, for the screencast link. Looks good. Will definitely check it out.

Best,
malthe (Denmark)

By: Mike Vail

Mike Vail — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:22:09 +0000

This episode alone was the reason that paid for a copy of LaunchBar yesterday. Very useful info.

By: Zettt

Zettt — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:26:35 +0000

Thanks Scott. Warm words are always welcome.

By: ScottNYC

ScottNYC — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:57:24 +0000

oh by the way zettt found your videos as well, awesome tutorials.

By: ScottNYC

ScottNYC — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:56:00 +0000

I used to be a huge quicksilver fan, however since SL its been really bad, buggy, plugins broken, crashing, so I knew it was time to go looking for another app of this kind. After finding and installing launchbar I was looking for launchbar tutorials which led me here. Great podcast learned alot. I’ve subscribed as well.

By: Zettt

Zettt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:30:37 +0000

Thanks, admin. Glad you like them.