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Relaunch 1.1
You have a ton of applications open, and Software Update starts bouncing in the Dock. You need to restart your Mac, but you're right in the middle of something! Wouldn't it be great if there was a small utility that would automatically take a snapshot of all your running applications and launch them when you log in?Relaunch is just such an app. It lives in the menubar and quietly keeps track of what applications you have open. When your Mac reboots (for whatever reason) you can have Relaunch all the apps you had open and you can keep on truckin'. You can also initiate a relaunch without rebooting, in case you have a set of apps that you always launch together.
Relaunch costs $5, and there is a demo available.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bill I said 11:00AM on 9-25-2006
Meh.
I've save myself the $5, save my work and reboot; or better yet, just run the update later.
It's a nice idea for potentially unavoidable restarts, but since when does Software Update auto-install updates and force a restart?
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Shane said 11:49AM on 9-25-2006
I dunno. I've been in those situtations before. Software update, middle of a project. Other times, I really don't need anything open. I guess after hitting 'restart' or after os-x loads again, it would be nice if it asked you if you would like to reboot to previous apps status.
my $0.02
-shane
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pnarse said 11:46AM on 9-25-2006
Save yourself a fiver and simply force quit software update when it demands a restart.
You then continue to use your mac until such a time comes that it is convenient to restart!
I have been doing this since Mac OS X 10.1 without a hitch :)
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Iggy said 11:51AM on 9-25-2006
yea i just set itunes to update my podcasts, hit restart, software update initiates the restart but iTunes cancels it.
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Andre Deminiac said 3:33PM on 9-25-2006
I must be the only one then that thinks this app is a great idea...
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MK said 3:43PM on 9-25-2006
Interesting. The app supports "monitoring" of only a select set of applications. So presumably if you have a bunch of unsupported apps open, Relaunch wouldn't be able to re-open them upon reboot...
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Richy said 4:40PM on 9-25-2006
Thanks for your comments, I'm the developer who wrote Relaunch. The app actually supports and can restart all applications, as of v1.2 Relaunch can also open documents that were open within the applications (i.e. if you've got 5 open Word documents it will open all five of them, rather than just restarting word). Currently this behaviour works for 20 popular document based apps and I'm working on the rest... :)
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Brandon Hays said 5:15PM on 9-25-2006
That was my question: will it open Word docs and Safari sites? That would save my bacon often.
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Richy said 5:22PM on 9-25-2006
Brandon, it will open Word documents and Safari sites (although currently only the upmost tab in each Safari window i.e. it doesn't fully support Safari tabs yet)
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Hame.ish said 11:08PM on 9-25-2006
Richy, quick question. if I wanted to use this an an alternative to putting my machine to sleep (I have some issues doing that currently for some reason)
I'd like to point out a scenario which might be a problem.
I use virtuedesktops and have about 6 virtual desktops each with apps sitting in different spaces, I assume using reluanch I'll just have my apps launhced in the one desktop and have to move them all afterwards.
Still handy, but worth thinking about I guess
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mono said 1:38AM on 9-26-2006
Previously I had one computer for my music and Photoshop and another to run the rest. Now I'm stuck with one TiBook and although having many programs open is better implemented in OSX, it is cumbersome and I have found, error inducing, to have very demanding applications open at the same time.
So I would like to have sets of applications and open documents that I can switch between. Does Relaunch do this?
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Richy said 1:58AM on 9-26-2006
Hi, thanks again for your comments.
Hame.ish, you're right, I'm not sure what the behaviour here would be. I can have a look into it, but I can't make any promises at this stage.
mono, yep that's definitely something I'm looking at for a future release.
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Iggy said 9:45PM on 9-26-2006
ok i take back my earlier comment, it's cool that it can re-open documents.
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Mike Rose said 12:56PM on 11-15-2006
Relaunch is now at 1.3.5, and can handle the "saved set" behavior requested above. Now, if it did Entourage, or worked with one of the Firefox tab savers...
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