Enso Launcher is designed to give you instant access to your applications and windows. With a few easily remembered keystrokes, you can launch an application, switch to a window by name, and control the state of your windows.
If you’ve ever used OS X then chances are you’ve heard of or used Quicksilver. There hasn’t really been a very good Windows equivalent until now. Humanized has released Enso Launcher the other day, and it seems to be a very interesting (and perhaps useful) application that fills this void. You can use the launcher to open an application, and just about anything else on your computer. In an email I received from one of the developers of Enso Launcher he provided me with a good example of how this application could be useful.
try telling someone how to open the “Internet Options” control panel in Windows, correctly handling the edge cases of: windows version, internet explorer version, user preference settings, and start menu configuration. With Enso, the answer is simple: “open internet options”.
Sounds easy right? I agree, it has its place. Here’s a screenshot of this app in action so you can get an idea:
My problem lies with the demonstration video they show. They state something similar to, “you just highlight the text, hold down caps lock [the trigger key for Enso Launcher] and then type ‘upper case’ and viola in 4 seconds you’re done…otherwise this whole process could easily take you 15 seconds.” I am not sure what program they are using, but I did a bit of an experiment in Microsoft Word 2007, and the entire process of make a sentence uppercase took me 2 mouse clicks and about 3 seconds of time. I know what they are trying to do, and to some extent it’s understandable to exaggerate, but don’t make ridiculous claims like it taking 15 seconds to do something that clearly can be done in less than 5. Anyways, I am rambling. It’s a cool app, but I doubt it is worth the $25 they want for it.
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