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   LaunchBar 6.1

   Agen G. N. Schmitz

   Up until now, Objective Development's [1]LaunchBar has relied on just
   five superpowers ' Abbreviation Search, Browsing, Sub-search, Send To
   and Instant Send ' to help you carry out tasks on your Mac more
   efficiently. But with the release of version 6.1, LaunchBar discovers a
   new sixth superpower called Staging, which enables you to create
   multiple selections and initiate them at once. Objective Development's
   [2]blog post introducing Staging includes several examples (such as
   selecting multiple files and sending them via email, or opening a Web
   search in multiple search engines), the basics of creating multiple
   selections in the staging area, and a list of keyboard shortcuts. (Kirk
   McElhearn will cover Staging in depth in the next version of [3]Take
   Control of LaunchBar.)

   The keyboard-based launcher also improves the flexibility of adding
   calendar items (accepting description, location and date/time in
   arbitrary order, though still requiring location to be placed after the
   description). Additionally, LaunchBar 6.1 improves the ZIP archive
   compression action to support multiple selections, permanently displays
   contact labels while browsing, adds support for LaunchBar Actions
   implemented as Automator Workflows, improves the Move to Trash action
   with undo capability, adds support for Tower 2 repository bookmark
   indexing and browsing, and changes the shortcuts for Info Browsing and
   Show Siblings for better consistency with Staging. ($29 new with a 20
   percent discount for [4]TidBITS members, free update, 10.0 MB,
   [5]release notes, 10.9+)

References

   1. http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/
   2. http://blog.obdev.at/post/the-sixth-sense/
   3. http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/launchbar
   4. http://tidbits.com/member_benefits.html
   5. http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/releasenotes.html

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