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From the Preferences, you can pick an app, a folder, a document – whatever – give it a keyword, and save. The “file or group” functionality is the opposite of search filters in that it lets you assign specified files or folders to a keyword, and launch them all at the same time. I’m looking forward to OmniFocus or Evernote users coming up with ways to integrate those apps’ AppleScript dictionaries into Alfred (Alfred’s own developer seems to be getting along quite well with Alfred and Things’ syntax). I’m not exceptionally skilled with the Terminal or AppleScript, but in a few minutes I managed to create extensions that disable window animations in Lion, restart the Finder, and enable window animations again – three commands, three keywords in Alfred. We can’t wait to start downloading and recommending the best tweaks and extensions around.

#Growl for mac lion install

Indeed, support for extensions (which you can also download and install via drag & drop) make for a great opportunity for the devs to build an active community around Alfred.

#Growl for mac lion how to

Expect a dozen of tutorials on how to integrate Alfred through AppleScript with your favorite Mac apps to surface online in the next few days. The same applies to AppleScripts and workflows – once a parameter (example: how to parse a task for OmniFocus or a set of images) has been set, Alfred will take the inline AppleScript, and execute it. This means that, for instance, a Terminal command can be configured and saved directly into Alfred, assigned a keyword and run from Alfred’s search UI without leaving the app or seeing the Terminal launch in the background. With the new Alfred Extensions – available in the Preferences – users can extend the app by natively integrating scripts, workflows, and more into Alfred. Īlfred can now be extended thanks to built-in support for shell scripts, Automator workflows, AppleScripts, file groups and Search Filters, whereas previous versions of Alfred could only assign a shortcut to scripts saved elsewhere on your computer, or run Terminal commands in the background.

Whilst the developers are still planning a major 1.0 release that will likely see the Powerpack (a set of premium additional features) become available as in-app purchase on Lion’s Mac App Store, Alfred 0.9.9 has been publicly released today and, in spite of what the version number suggests, it is a milestone release that sets the path for future Alfred versions and the kind of integration with the system the developers are willing to bake into their application launcher. I was particularly impressed with the 0.9 version, which allowed users to assign a keyboard shortcut to any AppleScript on your machine, similarly to how the popular FastScripts lets you pair a shortcut with a script. In the past months, in fact, Alfred evolved into a minimal, yet powerful application launcher capable of doing a bunch of other things such as filesystem navigation, clipboard management, AppleScript launching and dictionary. Personally, I’ve been a big fan of Alfred since its first release last year, and I’ve followed the development closely as I switched from Quicksilver (which came back from a long hiatus a few months ago) and started looking into the customizable search and launch environment offered by Alfred.

#Growl for mac lion update

Alfred, the application launcher for the Mac, received a fairly substantial update today which brings important new functionalities such as extension support, Growl integration for action outputs, a new theme inspired by OS X Lion, and several bug fixes.