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Spotlight seems an awful lot like Alfred now. http://www.alfredapp.com/ http://www.alfredapp.com/
by davis_m 12y ago
Spotlight seems an awful lot like Alfred now. http://www.alfredapp.com/ http://www.alfredapp.com/
- mhurron 12y agoIt reminded me of Sherlock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_%28software%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_%28software%29
- sdfjkl 12y agoAlfred does a lot more than that. But yes, the inspiration is obvious (and Alfred itself was inspired by Quicksilver).
- leejoramo 12y agoWhich was inspired by LaunchBar. The cmd-space keyboard shortcut originated with LaunchBar back in the NeXT days. Spotlight has had added features repeatedly over the years, and people have said that LaunchBar/QuickSliver/Alfred are about to be "Sherlocked".
- chanced 12y ago> Sherlocked: > To have developed a product and just started shipping it, only to have Apple come along and provide exactly the same functionality in a system update. > It happened to Karelia Software twice. Once with Sherlock and again with iWeb.
- joshschreuder 12y agoAlfred devs respond: http://blog.alfredapp.com/2014/06/02/alfred-and-os-x-10-10-yosemite/ http://blog.alfredapp.com/2014/06/02/alfred-and-os-x-10-10-y...