Therefore only important problems get tackled by apps, and the challenge leads to more useful and meaningful programs. Thirdly there’s the fact that many modifications or enchancements you’d like to make can be done through the terminal, so there’s no need for a separate app. There’s also the fact that you’re more likely to encounter a lower signal-to-noise ratio (as is the case for little Windows apps) in a wider market… there are good Windows apps out there, it just takes more work to find them. I’m not quite sure why, as theirs is a smaller community than independent Windows developers, but perhaps they’re just more committed to providing a good tool, since they explicitly chose to work on a Mac, as opposed to many Windows people who just fall into their domain. Secondly, it seems to me that independent developers on Mac are more likely to deliver a quality product. You like being on the bleeding edge, first off. The question is, why? Do independent developers have a larger chance of success of creating useful applications/utilities given the size of the development team Apple has on Mac OS X compared to the hoards of Microsoft Windows developers? Has the emergence of the web as a solid distribution channel leveled the playing field? Does the added communication value of independent developer weblogs have anything to do with it? Or, am I just a guy who likes to live on the bleeding edge out on the frontier of new software? Since my move to Mac OS X, this has been happening more and more. The emergence of LaunchBar on my desktop is, yet another, example of a small, independent developer who has actually extracted money from my wallet. (Note for Windows users: I achieve a similar effect in XP by typing WINDOWS-R-“Name of Application”) If you’re not really comfortable on the keyboard, you will not understand this. Rather than clicking on Safari, digging around my bookmarks for that link I’m looking for, I just type APPLE-space-“Name of the link” and hit RETURN. LaunchBar keeps me on a tool I’m intimately familiar with - the keyboard. It is a imprecise tool in the hands of a imprecise person (namely me) which means when I try to do something (like click on an application on the desktop), I sometimes miss. Frequent readers will know of my hatred of mouse. This utility, which I’ve already talked about, sits in your menu bar and allows you to launch applications, web pages, documents, system preferences by typing their respective names via the keyboard. Have fun and enjoy.The latest shareware utility I’ve actually paid for is LaunchBar. Why is it called Sun and has a black hole logo?Ī black hole is a collapsed sun, do be a stickler. Regarding docs there is none, and there will be none, if I need to explain how to use the app I have already failed. You seem to have tried the app at the unfortunate time where I did some breaking changes and fixing some bugs (try option + space it should launch). Where are the docs? it is not launching? I develop Sol on my free time building the tool that I like, and it will not have any registration step or run analytics on you on any shape or form. I also believe that VC money backed tools face the though reality of unrealistic ROI at some point, so I fully expect other tools to squeeze money out of you at some point. I'm a ruthless simplifier and I wanted a similar yet I-don't-want-to-configure-you tool. I started using Raycast, and it's nice, but found it cumbersome, too many features tackled on top of each other with even more cumbersome navigation.
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