GNOME Launch Box and its alternatives

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Launchy
Open Source by Josh Karlin |
Launchy is a free Windows and Linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your do ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: application-launcher, plugins, keystroke-launcher, extensible, start-menu +1 more, launch-bar

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Gnome Do
Open Source by David Siegel |
- Linux
GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items.GNOME Do is inspired by Quicksilver & GNOME Launch Box.

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: application-launcher, plugins, keystroke-launcher

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Quicksilver
Open Source by Quicksilver Foundation |
- Mac
Quicksilver is a fast and free Mac OS X productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly. Quicksilver learns your habits, making your everyday chores simple and efficient.An int ...

Categories: File Management, Office & Productivity Tags: productivity, file-management, launcher, application-launcher, mac-apps +2 more, os-x-lion, utility-app

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Avant Window Navigator
Open Source |
- Linux
Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list.

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: launcher, application-launcher, dock, shortcut, taskbar

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Find And Run Robot
Free by Mouser |
- Windows
FARR also lets you quickly run web searches, send email, manipulate files, control on-screen windows, and much more. Build and share custom commands or install plugins to add tons of new features, like live search featur ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: application-launcher, plugins, keystroke-launcher

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Executor
Free by Martin Bresson |
- Windows
A multi purpose launcher and more advanced and customizable freeware windows run replacement and more.

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: application-launcher, keystroke-launcher

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Synapse
Open Source by Michal Hruby |
- Linux
Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.

Tags: launcher, launch-bar, vala

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Enso Launcher
Free by Humanized |
- Windows
Enso is dead simple to use. You just hold down the Caps Lock key and type an Enso command, which is displayed in a translucent overlay. Once the command is typed, you simply release the Caps Lock key to activate it, and ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: application-launcher, plugins, keystroke-launcher

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kupfer
Open Source by Ulrik Sverdrup |
- Linux
Kupfer is a command tool heavily inspired by Quicksilver; you do not use it to search your files, you use it to summon an application or document quickly by typing the first parts of its name. Kupfer is written using Pyt ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: launcher, application-launcher, plugins, keystroke-launcher, command

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FSL Launcher
Free |
- Windows
Tired for dozen of icons on your desktop?Try this simple but powerful and intuitive launcher to organize your shortcuts.Some features:Shortcuts management for applications, documents, url links, folders path and more...C ...

Tags: explorer-addon

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Quick Search Box (qsb-mac)
Open Source by Google |
- Mac
Google Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web.This app is very experimental, but through it you will be able to see many of the areas we are explo ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: launcher, application-launcher, command

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SlickRun
Free by Bayden Systems |
- Windows
SlickRun is a free floating command line utility for Windows. SlickRun gives almost instant access to any program or website. SlickRun allows you to create command aliases (known as MagicWords), so C:\Program Files\Outlo ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: application-launcher, keystroke-launcher

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TypeAndRun
Free by Evgeniy Galantsev ?-=GaLaN=-? |
- Windows
This program is a hot-key enabled console which allows you to start any applications, open any documents, URLs, mail addresses and folders. Forget shortcuts and various fast start panels. This program will suit those who ...

Category: OS & Utilities Tags: console, command, tar, hot-key, aliases

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Keybreeze
Free |
- Windows
It's a small toolbar that you can activate by pressing a hotkey. Then you can type keywords to open programs and websites, search the internet, check the weather, shut down your computer, run macros, and a whole lo ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: notes, application-launcher, keystroke-launcher, macros

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Gnome Completion-Run Utility (gmrun)
Open Source by mishoo |
- Linux
Application launcher with bash-like completion. It's a simple program which provides a "run program" window, featuring a bash-like TAB completion. It uses GTK+ interface. Also, supports CTRL-R / CTRL-S / &q ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: application-launcher, keystroke-launcher, command-launcher

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Promptu
Free by Zach Johnson |
- Windows
Say goodbye to repetitive, time-consuming tasks, like hunting through your programs, folders, files, and bookmarks for the ones you need. Promptu lets you associate meaningful names with programs, folders, files, bookmar ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: launcher, application-launcher, keystroke-launcher

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Colibri
Free by Michael Walter |
- Windows
Colibri combines the raw power of the command line with the intuitive nature of a modern graphical user interface to define a revolutionary new way of managing your computer.

Tags: launcher, command

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Tray Commander Lite
Free for personal use |
- Windows
Tray Commander is a multifunctional utility that lets you launch your frequently used programs, files, folders and documents directly from the system tray. It adds a single icon to the tray which, when clicked, displays ...

Tags: launcher, shortcut, macro, hotkey

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Typhoeus Hotkeys
Free by Tom McClean |
- Windows
Typhoeus Hotkeys is an application that runs in your taskbar at all times, you can create "Hotkeys" which you can use in seconds by using your keyboard. Each hotkey is linked to a file, program or website and w ...

Tags: launcher, hotkeys, typhoeus

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nDroid
Free by CodeNite Softworks |
- Windows
nDroid is a blazing fast keyboard based application launcher. But not just that, it can open documents, play songs, open browser bookmarks, lookup web references, find torrents, do online searches, find your files .. plu ...

Category: Office & Productivity Tags: launcher, application-launcher, keystroke-launcher, program-launcher +3 more, keyboard-launcher, keyword-launcher, starter

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