OS X: Alfred, your favorite desktop search program and one of our favorite application launchers, just updated to version 2, almost completely rewritten from the ground up for speed and with a few new features. Here’s what you’ll find.
Apart from speed boosts and a few other improvements (like better contact searching and more themes), the biggest change in Alfred 2 is a feature called Workflows, which lets you perform a number of actions at once using custom scripts. For example, you can:
- Upload an image to flickr by typing
flickrand the image in question, after which it will notify you of when the upload starts and finishes - Type
movieand search a movie name to load that movie’s trailer, IMDB page, and Rotten Tomatoes page - Perform different types of Google searches
- Pretty much anything you can imagine
Alfred 2 comes with a few workflows, but you can also create your own with its templates. Check out Alfred’s original blog post on Workflows for more info, as well as their guide to version 2 for some links on where you can find more. And, of course, hit the link below to download it and try it out for yourself.
Alfred v2 (Free)
via Lifehacker