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title: "On OS X, searches are a mere finger twitch away"
date: 2003-01-19T19:34:57-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/01/19/ooochi/
author: Les Orchard
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# On OS X, searches are a mere finger twitch away

<p>Oh yeah, and further along the lines of <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/news_archives/000387.phtml" target="_top">filesystem sacrilege</a>, my most used OS X apps are:<br />
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mthole/searchling/" target="_top">Searchling</a><br />
</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/" target="_top">LaunchBar</a><br />
</li>
</ul>
Both of these give me lightning fast access with keyboard-shortcut finger twitches to what's on my mind and what I want to do.  I want to find more things like this.</p>
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            <div class="content">Amen. It's to the point where if I sit down at a OSX machine whithout LaunchBar installed I lock up while  I try to remember how to open programs the old way. :)</div>
            
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