Launchbar search templates how to#

This weekend LaunchBar received an update so I figured now was the time to learn how to use it more efficiently. The search templates feature lets you access any number of Internet search. After triggering LaunchBar, hit command-G to make the finder selection active in LaunchBar.Here are some gems from the LaunchBar manual. LaunchBar isnt limited to searching the contents of your Mac. After selecting another location you get a menu to choose several functions to perform (Move, Copy, make alias, make hard link, make relative sym link, make absolute sym link) When a finder selection is in LaunchBar hit tab to select another location.I previously used drag and drop to the Dock icon. Start menu policy settings (in this article) lists the policies you can configure. Using administrative templates, you configure settings in a policy, and then deploy this policy to your devices. Hit cmd-space-space to get a list of running applications. Using group policy objects (GPO), you can manage different parts of the Start menu and taskbar. Run AppleScripts with parameters and passed files.When an application is selected hit cmd-Q to quite, cmd-H to hide or cmd-opt-F to force quite the currently selected application.It’s basically the same as using the built in cmd-tab application switcher. This rises to a much higher level of cool if you’re an AppleScript hack like me. After selecting a folder in LaunchBar, type CMD-shift-T to open a terminal window in that location Nest the script in a “on handle_string(theString)” subroutine and LaunchBar can pass in parameters to the script. While in the Terminal, execute ‘open -a LaunchBar. For those not in the know, LaunchBar is an application launcher that can also do a variety of other tasks: on-the-spot calculations, online searches, opening websites, searching your computer. Type “man” and select the Manual Page search template.Type space to begin searching the Safari history Type “sahi” to select the Safari history.’ to set LaunchBar to the current Terminal location