Application Launcher - Launchy

Launchy is to Windows as Quicksilver is to Mac ... awesome.

A quote from launchy.net:
"Launchy is a free windows 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 documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!"

Aside from a snappy interface and looking good, Launchy's greatness comes from the ability to tweak it and customize it to your heart's content. Not only can you use it to launch a regular application, like Mozilla Firefox, you can use it to:


1. Google web search
2. Google map search
3. Control itunes
4. Wikipedia search
5. Dictionary Lookup
6. Start composing an email
7. Run terminal commands

...and countless others, given the fact that you can easily add your own plugins with no programming knowledge required. I created a plugin to search for TV shows on msn.com.

You can read more at launchy.net, or head to sourceforge for the download.

Thanks to lifehacker.com for turning me on to this great app.

Now you know,
Garrett Woodroof