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The ultimate launcher for Mac users
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Face it. Our Macs have become complex, complicated, cluttered little beasts. Files are everywhere. We load up our Macs with applications, utilities, shareware, documents, movies, music, and more. How can we navigate through the messes we make? One word. DragThing. Here’s how…
Reader Comments
James Thomson said:
Thanks, you are too kind!
Mr. Wilson said:
I love Quicksilver. Great application for Mac users who lust for keyboard power. Not for the faint of heart; trying to remember all those keystrokes combinations often gave me Excedrin headaches, not to mention the havoc it caused with OS X. Bugs, bugs, bugs. Is it any wonder the developer gave up?
DragThing is totally Mac. Easy to set up, easy to use, almost a no-brainer, but with more features and preferences than God put into women.
Spotlight as a launcher? Puhleeeze!
iggy pence said:
Drag Thing is awesome, perfect for newbies and power users, and most Mac users in between. LaunchBar is totally anemic. Quicksilver is powerful but has stopped development and was buggy as hell anyway.
How many keystrokes do you hit to call up and launch one out of 250 programs on a Mac? With DragThing I move my mouse to a hot spot, DragThing pops up, I click the program’s icon. Done. One click. NO keystrokes. I love it. My five-year-old can do it.
Try that, Quickslobber.
Mr. Reeee said:
Drag Thing is fantastic… if you’re still running OS 9. I used to run both.
For OS X, there are things like LaunchBar or Quicksilver or even Apple’s own Spotlight.
I’m a real sucker for cute icons, desktop pix and purple peripherals (it makes my friends laugh), but I got tired of setting up and juggling launcher windows and palettes. AND trying to remember which palette had which button…
With LaunchBar, I type a few characters and hit Return. I spent little time setting it up. LaunchBar watches what I do, learns and does it for me.
Command-Space-M… Mail
Command-Space-S… Safari
Command-Space-V… VectorWorks
Command-Space-PS… Photoshop
(I use Control-Space for Spotlight)
For me, it’s all about saving mouse movements. I don’t touch type, and it’s STILL faster than mousing… even though I use a trackball (mice are so inefficient).
I don’t even have to look!
(Kate, love your work over at Mac360! Nice site. Keep up the good work.)