Alfred Updates with Extra Speed, Complex Workflows, and More

Alfred Updates with Extra Speed, Complex Workflows, and MoreOS 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.

Alfred Updates with Extra Speed, Complex Workflows, and MoreApart 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 flickr and the image in question, after which it will notify you of when the upload starts and finishes
  • Type movie and 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