Alfred App – Mac OS X Quicklaunch Application

Version 0.5 Release Notes

New features:

• Dictionary “Spell” and “Define”
• Basic calculator
• Google’s I’m feeling lucky added with keyword “lucky” (this will be improved in the future)
• Wolfram Alpha added to the standard web searchers with keyword “wolfram”
• Google translation added with keyword “translate” – Translates both sentences and websites
• Added Flickr search with keyword “flickr”
• Added Ask.com with keyword “ask”
• Spotlight Comments – you can set a comment of “ff” for Firefox and Alfred will find it

Preferences:

• Improved hotkey selection field
• Ability to change keywords for web searches
• Ability to disable unwanted websites from results
• Option to prioritise items with Spotlight Comments at the top
• Preference to save window position
• Option to always show subtext under results if available
• Preference to turn off Alfred fade-in
• Added a “Reindex” button to the experimental tab
• Ability to configure the “Esc” key behaviour
• Ability to disable “find” and “open” keywords
• Experimental feature to allow a comma as decimal separator (for locales such as Germany)
• Experimental feature to ignore the locale for Google and Wikipedia
• Option to choose how many results are shown
• Option to remove text at bottom of window

Improvements:

• Tweaks to the dark theme
• Correctly URL encode a + as %2b (which means things like Google calculator will now work)
• Locale system overhauled (need to re-set your locale)
• Remove the status bar icon before quitting so it doesn’t leave a gap
• Special characters now shown correctly in hotkey field

Known issues:

• Address book: If launching a contact and there is a search in the contacts search field, the contact doesn’t show
• Iconography not updated in prefs due to time constraints
• Search relevance needs further improvements (main focus of next release)
• Help pages need to be populated in more details
• Window positioning not remembered on first change, but remembered from 2nd move
• Spotlight Comments don’t get prioritised above standard searches (eg. Spell…)

Version 0.4.1 Release Notes:

• Ability to hide status bar icon. When status bar icon is hidden, you see a small cog for ‘preferences’ on the Alfred main window.
• Changed status bar icon to a simpler hat
• More flexibility for hotkey selection
• Simple tickbox to ignore Mail.app emails in ‘find’ and ‘open’ searches
• Added System Preference Panels to default search (eg ‘Appearance’)
• Once launched, show Alfred on double clicking icon in /apps or the icon in the dock
• Pressing Esc clears the search term. If there is no search term, Esc will hide Alfred
• Multi page preferences dialog
• Ability to search Google Mail using ‘Gmail…’
• Make ‘tab’ autocomplete work more reliably
• cmd + W now closes the preferences window
• Default Hotkey changed to ‘alt space’ – Check and update your hotkey!

Known issues:

• Wikipedia and Yahoo don’t reflect country preference