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Another Launcher - The ultimate power tool?
Authored by: dougR on Dec 01, '03 03:28:02PM

The features of this app are impressive, and it really seems to take the Launchbar idea and expand on it in some interesting ways. But, man, is it slow! Granted I'm running on an iBook 700, but it really seems to be unresponsive to my mouse clicks. In comparison, Launchbar (and most other apps) really fly. Am I missing something?



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Another Launcher - The ultimate power tool?
Authored by: syko on Dec 01, '03 08:40:37PM

i've got a dual 1.8 and it's slower when typing in keywords than launchbar



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Try turning off Always Up-to-Date
Authored by: alexmathew on Dec 02, '03 08:34:42PM

It fly's even on my Pismo 400!

Go to Preferences>Advanced>Entering Abbreviations>Uncheck Always Up-todate....

I just started with this and the search function - it is an amazing utility.

However, the complexity may be too daunting for me to make full use of it!

AM



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boosting search speed
Authored by: ddldreaming on Dec 02, '03 09:31:43PM

I found Another Launcher abysmally slow until I checked "Only Applications" under "Consider External Contents" in its Advanced preference tab (which also automatically disables "Always up-to-date"). I also removed unneeded/nonexistent search directories. Now it's as fast as LaunchBar, but also doesn't seek through as many items.

I'm still undecided about it. It's very flexible but also jarringly clunky. What I dislike most about it is the way it usually fails to return focus to the application window I was working in (when I bring up a popup window and then cancel it). It's taken me a long time to get familiar with it (for a Mac application, anyway); many of its preference options are not self-evident and the documentation is maddeningly circular.

Whether I keep using it or not, it's nice to see the evolution of tools like these. Hopefully it'll inspire Objective Development to extend LaunchBar.



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Another Launcher - The ultimate power tool?
Authored by: szabesz on Dec 03, '03 11:05:59AM

Another Launcher used to be slow to load on 10.2.8 for me, before upgrading to 10.3. But the whole 10.2.8 system was really slow as well. It is really srtange, but over more than a year of usage, my 10.2.x system has gardually became SLOW! After uprgading to 10.3, later on to 10.3.1, my iMac is back to normal, and the launch time of Another Launcher is back to normal as well. Strange that it took some time till Another Launcher and the system became speedy again!



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Run maintenance...
Authored by: alexmathew on Dec 03, '03 11:51:38AM

Are you running frequent Maintenance scripts? Use something like Maintain. Remove Cache files and re-do the prebinding and permissions. Since I have a clone (CCC) being done every night, all this is taken care of. My system rarely slows down - 10.2.8 on a Pismo/400.



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