LaunchBar is a keyboard-driven productivity utility for OS X from Objective Development.
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Is there a way to completely disable Dock?
I want the Dock completely gone. I haven't used it in the past three releases of OS X (10.5 to present). I want it completely gone, and LaunchBar there instead. Is there a way to kill the Dock so ...
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How do I get LaunchBar to open the enclosing folder for a selected file?
After selecting a file or application in LaunchBar, how do I get it to show it in the Finder? (I'd like the equivalent of right-clicking on a file in a Spotlight search and selecting "Open Enclosing ...
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If I use LaunchBar can I disable Spotlight?
If I use LaunchBar can I disable Spotlight? Does LaunchBar do all of its own indexing and never use the Spotlight database? Or does it rely on the Spotlight database for some of its search ...
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How to Increase LaunchBar Width?
Is there a way of increasing the width of the LaunchBar bar? Especially when I enter something that results in a web page, this width is insufficient for showing the full title, not even talking about ...
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iOS Stacks or equivalent functionality
Fairly simple question, is there a way, either through existing functionality or by jail breaking that you can add Stacks to the iOS dock.
EDIT:
There are three different formats in the way that ...
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LaunchBar script that returns the path of a folder “dropped” on it
I want to make a LaunchBar script that displays in a dialog the path of a file or folder that's chosen in the first pane and then "dropped" on a script. But I can't make it work.
I've got a couple of ...
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Instant send feature in quicksilver
I just switched back to quicksilver and I was wondering if there is an instant send feature in QS like Launchbar.
in Launchbar, you can define a hotkey which will send the selected file/folder as a ...
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Can you copy files to /Applications using Launchbar?
For lot of applications, the disc image (.dmg) contains the .app files which needs to be copied to the /Applications folder.
I use Launchbar's Instant Send feature to open the selected files quickly ...
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Lock screen with LaunchBar
I extensively use Launchbar and have almost all my daily productivity items working through it.
Since I use my personal MacBook at work, I do not have use a screen saver password, however, when at ...
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Is there a way for Spotlight or Launchbar or Quicksilver or similar to just return matching folders not files?
I frequently need to just get a finder window up that's a ton of folders deep.
There's only so many favorites you can put in the finder sidebar.
I'd happily configure a dedicated launcher to just ...
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Creating a quick event in iCal using LaunchBar & AppleScript
what i want to figure out is how to send a String to iCal 5 on 10.7 which is interpreted the same way as creating a quick event, as if you press CMD+N with iCal in focus and then just type "tea at 5" ...
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How do I select more than one file in LaunchBar?
Is it possible to select multiple files in LaunchBar? (For example, I may want to select two files in a folder and "drag" them to another folder.) How do I do that?
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LaunchBar/Quicksilver as a replacement of Spotlight?
I asked about the usefulness of spotlight here, as I don't like the drag that spotlight causes all the time.
What I found useful in Spotlight is those two.
word lookup : spotlight opens ...
