May 05, 2003

Chronos rips off LaunchBar

Looks like Chronos has ripped off my beloved LaunchBar . Chronos' new F10 Launch Studio includes a "Chameleon Filter":

The Chameleon Filter uses adaptive searching technology to produce lightning fast launches. The Chameleon filter learns from short abbreviations you type to find and launch an application or document. For example, you might type "cal" to launch the Calculator, "pc" to launch the Print Center, etc. Since the Chameleon Filter adapts to your abbreviations as you use it, no setup is required.

Those of you who have used LaunchBar know that this is exactly how LaunchBar operates. I have not used F10 Launch Studio - for all I know it could be better than LaunchBar. Still, not giving any credit to Objective Development and LaunchBar is lame.

Posted by Dirtae at May 5, 2003 03:35 PM
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Not giving credit is lame. I can't think of many ways (any ways?) to improve LaunchBar, so what's my incentive to even look at F10?

Posted by: Erik J. Barzeski at May 5, 2003 07:19 PM
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