Comments on: Launchy http://mathoda.com/2007/04/launchy the stories, poems, essays, biography, and projects of Ranjit S. Mathoda Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:57:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ranjit Mathoda http://mathoda.com/2007/04/launchy#comment-3500 Ranjit Mathoda Wed, 30 May 2007 15:12:10 +0000 http://www.mathoda.com/archives/138#comment-3500 Great to know. Apple has done a great job improving their operating system, whereas with Vista Microsoft to a large extent made improvements that aren't very visible to the end user. Maybe with the coming of multi-touch devices the competition between Microsoft, Apple, and Linux will get even better. Great to know. Apple has done a great job improving their operating system, whereas with Vista Microsoft to a large extent made improvements that aren’t very visible to the end user. Maybe with the coming of multi-touch devices the competition between Microsoft, Apple, and Linux will get even better.

]]> By: Sanjay Aiyagari http://mathoda.com/2007/04/launchy#comment-3369 Sanjay Aiyagari Wed, 23 May 2007 20:08:47 +0000 http://www.mathoda.com/archives/138#comment-3369 "This is something that anyone creating an operating system should really have built in." It is built in. Into Mac OS X, in the form of Spotlight. Press Command-Space, start typing in the spotlight area, and it searches as you type. The nice thing is that it will find objects that are part of integrated applications as well, so it could find an address book card that matched also, for example. But it works great even as a simple application launcher. “This is something that anyone creating an operating system should really have built in.”

It is built in. Into Mac OS X, in the form of Spotlight. Press Command-Space, start typing in the spotlight area, and it searches as you type.

The nice thing is that it will find objects that are part of integrated applications as well, so it could find an address book card that matched also, for example. But it works great even as a simple application launcher.

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