Launchers Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Quicksilver appears to be coming back from the dead

by Dana Franklin (Apr 18th, 2011)

Let's take a moment to appreciate the mouse, the marvel of engineering that made computing accessible to the general public. But, if you've ever watched an expert systems administrator rocket through tasks using nothing but the command line and a keyboard, you know the mouse isn't the world's most ...

LaunchBar 5 beta available now

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 7th, 2008)

File launchers -- programs that make it easy to launch applications or utilities from a few clicks on the keyboard -- are increasingly common Mac utilities. Although I don't personally use a separate launch utility (I use OS X's Spotlight), others here at TUAW have expressed their devotion to ...

Put TUAW on your iPhone or iPod touch home page

by Erica Sadun (Oct 17th, 2007)

If you want to run lots of Apps on your 1.1.1 iPhone or iPod touch but don't want to install SummerBoard, you can download this SpringBoard patcher that provides you with multi-page support. Copy off Springboard, patch it, put it back onto your device and reboot. It's what I'm running on my iPhone ...

TUAW Podcast #26: File Launchers

by David Chartier (Jun 14th, 2007)

We talk up the file launcher and manipulator Quicksilver quite a bit here at TUAW, but there is a solid batch of similar productivity-enhancing utilities that offer different things for different users. Whether you're looking for a simple utility that lets you launch your applications faster than ...