Objective Development Releases Launchbar 5

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Objective Development announced Wednesday the release of Launchbar 5, the company's utility for controlling your Mac from your keyboard. The update adds a digital ton of new features, including support for Snow Leopard, new clipboard tools, improved iCal support, AppleScript support, and much more.

Featured highlights of version 5:

  • Snow Leopard compatibility
  • Clipboard History
  • ClipMerge
  • Quick Look support
  • iCal support (create events and to-do items)
  • Much improved, extensible Calculator
  • Services indexing rule
  • Lots of new and improved actions
  • Much improved file operations
  • Redesigned index and preferences windows.
  • Fully customizable hotkeys
  • Modifier Taps
  • Firefox 3 support
  • German localization
  • Automatic software update
  • Scriptable via AppleScript
  • New application icon

You can find details on the new features at the Launchbar 5 Web page.

A single user license is priced at €24 (US$36.03 as of this writing), while family packs of five licenses are priced €39 ($58.54). Upgrades from pervious versions start at €9 ($13.51).

Launchbar 5 Screenshot
Screenshot of Launchbar 5's Clipboard History

Bryan Chaffin

Bryan Chaffin

Bryan is the cofounder of The Mac Observer and currently serves as Afternoon Editor. He has contributed to MacAddict and MacFormat magazines, and coauthored Incredible iPad Apps for Dummies with Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus.

You can find out more about Bryan at his personal site, GeekTells, or follow him on Twitter @TMOBryan.

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