Following a solid week of testing and tweaking, the Powerpack was released for general availability on Monday. The feedback we received from you has been mindblowingly positive and you seem to be having as much fun using the new features as we are. For those who missed the details of the 0.7 release, you can […]

We’ve been working tirelessly on the latest few versions of Alfred, adding plenty of new functionality for your enjoyment. View the full change log for all new features and fixes since 0.6, but here are some highlights: The Sparkle update framework has been integrated for painless updating New System Commands: Type “sleep”, “shutdown”, “screen saver”, […]

Last night, we released the 0.6 beta which you can now download from the homepage. A lot of work has gone into 0.6, from adding new features to optimising what’s already there for speed and efficiency. In summary, here are some of the key changes: Custom searches: Add your own sites to search with Alfred […]

It’s now just over a month since we first launched Alfred. The first thing we’d like to say is a huge thank you to the +13,000 people who have downloaded Alfred, tested it, reviewed it, commented about it on Twitter or otherwise helped spread the word. Today, we are releasing version 0.5.6 beta, the fourth […]

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…)

Today is Sunday, 7th March. It’s been a week since Alfred was first released out to beta users, and version 0.4.1 goes out today. To be honest, it’s hard to believe it’s only been a week! Last Sunday evening, after a stretch of solid development, we decided to put Alfred out there, planning to have […]