Alfred for OS X Gets 2 New Color Themes, Large Type Support
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Posted May 1, 2012 at 4:10pm by iClarified
Alfred, a keyboard-driven productivity application for OS X that helps you launch apps and search your computer, has received a big update.
FEATURES: * Application launcher: Launch any application with a quick shortcut. Alfred will learn which apps you use often and prioritise them when you search * Search your Mac: Quickly find and open files, bookmarks, contacts, music and more. You will never again have to wonder just where you saved that important document. * Search the web: Search or launch your favourite websites: Maps, Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia and many more. * Calculate and Spell: Just start typing to do a quick calculation or look up spellings, definitions or synonyms and antonyms. * System Commands: Control your Mac with speed and efficiency. Empty trash, start the Screen Saver, restart, shut down, eject a drive and more. * Custom Searches: Create your own web searches for frequently used websites and wikis.
What's New In This Version: This is a huge release with 2 new colour themes, Large type support and much more! See alfredapp.com for more details.
NEW FEATURES: * 2 new themes from user theme competition - Dark and Smooth & Pistachio * Large type support, use ⌘L to show the currently typed text or calculation in large type * Drag results (files / images etc) out of Alfred into emails, graphics apps, Finder * New 'Advanced' option for Default Result types, add any file type you like to the default results (still recommend open/find/[spacebar]prefix for file search)
IMPROVEMENTS: * Overhaul to file searching algorithm allowing, now non-continuous word based matching * Improvements to the 'in' keyword allowing for disjoint keyword matching * More exact matching for 'text files' in the default results, no longer matches .ics files * Improved decimal point configuration in the Calculator, now allowing forced decimal separator output for comma based locales * Alfred.app no longer shows in results and typing 'alfred' now opens the preferences * Add Xcode's new Applications location to the default search scope * More flexibility on the Spell/Define keywords, allow matching on items not in the dictionary * Less aggressive scientific notation rounding for the calculator for better 0 approximation errors * More intelligent 'eject' keyword to prevent false errors when a drive is successfully ejected * Code and performance improvements * Fixed / improved text and help throughout the preferences * Make MAS version startup / welcome sheet non resizable and close using Esc key * Allow ⌘^Q and ⌘^W as hotkeys, previously blocked by over-protective code * Update the core window renderer to fix a quirk behind the preference cog with transparent themes * Remove deprecated code and make Alfred more future proofed for OS X
You can download Alfred from the App Store for free.