Have you dreamed of extending the scope of what our handy little Alfred can do for you? The just-released Alfred 0.9.9 allows you to access even more of your Mac’s capabilities in an easy-to-use environment with the new Extensions tab. Haven’t got it yet? Check for updates in Alfred’s preferences to get this latest version. Powerpack [...]
Category Archives: Change Log
Alfred 0.8 – Snippets, Recent Docs and More!
December 18, 2010 – 7:00 am
This week, we can’t help but feel festive and cheerful. We’ve been working on bringing you the best treats in our Alfred Xmas Calendar and recently received a treat ourselves when Alfred was featured as one of The Best Mac Software of 2010. Adding to this, the 0.8 release has been a very strong one; [...]
Alfred 0.7.2 Brings Clipboard History
October 25, 2010 – 10:51 am
The new release brings a brand new feature – Clipboard History – as well as several marked improvements to features that have already been aiding your productivity. Alfred 0.7.2 will make you faster than ever, helping you reclaim all those lost minutes that you spent trying to re-discover information you had saved to your clipboard [...]
Alfred 0.5 Change Log
March 21, 2010 – 12:57 pm
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…)
Alfred 0.4.1 Change Log
March 7, 2010 – 10:50 am
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
