Gordon's Tech

Codswallop's reader list of favorite tools is surprisingly good. I recognized most of them, but Daylite is new to me. I'm surpris...

I've never used a file management tool on any OS as good as John Socha's Norton Commander for DOS . Nothing in OS/2, GeoWorks, Commo...

Launchbar is one of my favorite OS X applications. (Quicksilver is an imitator that is free, and thus gets more attention, but LB came first...

Update 12/12/06 : You can't delete a file in Simple Finder. Think about it. Simple Finder is proof positive that Apple is quite capable ...

I've used LaunchBar for years. It's astonishing. I'm disappointed they never did a Windows version; even today the Windows imit...

The trouble with most software news sites is that they're biased to the newest fashion. Older, mature apps get no credit. LaunchBar , my...

TidBITS has a nice summary . I've been using 4.1beta for ages, I guess I'll get around to updating. Every so often I adopt a new Lau...

I wrote Objective Development a month or two ago requesting Spotlight integration in their Launchbar application (Launchbar alone is suffici...

Google Desktop 2.0 is big disappointing. Update 8/24 : Even bigger disappointment. After it finally built my indices (took days) I tried i...

Apple - Mac OS X - Family My new machine came with Tiger. So far it's mostly a posterior pain. Old software has to be upgraded, the ...

Candy Labs - AppRocket LaunchBar 3 for OS X was an essentially perfect application. Yeah, I know about QuickSilver. There's even a Launc...

MacDevCenter.com: Launchers for Mac OS X This was published 4/04 but I just came across it. Quicksilver has since gone into general rele...

Apple - Discussions - Looking for: Open in Firefox AppleScript From a post to the Apple Discussions Forum: I use Firefox on Windows, but...

MacDevCenter.com: From NEXTSTEP to Now: An Interview with LaunchBar's Norbert Heger I adore LaunchBar. I really miss it when I suffe...

X1 instantly searches files & email. For Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Netscape Mail. I took another look at this since Fallo...

Erwin Waterlander's WCD - Wherever Change Directory This is much more impressive than appears on first look. It's a cross-platfo...

Servant Salamander File Manager - Homepage Cute. Commander -> Salamander, Master -> Servant. I'll test this one too. Any applic...

WinNc.Net - Norton Commander Clone - Filemanager for Windows Every so often I get so irritated with Windows XP that I search for anything th...

Blacktree - Quicksilver Quicksilver is an evolving structure for manipulating any form of data. The current modules include a launcher, a cl...