Friday, September 26, 2008

A few more apps reviewed

I found yesterday a few more apps that I think to be relevant to my research. So, today, a reviewed the following application launchers:

Windows:

Mac OS X:

Now, I'm finally heading for the article review.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Mac OS X apps reviewed

Today, I finally managed to get a working Mac OS X install.

I tested the fallowing application launchers:
So, due to this delay, I now have to catch up. Tomorrow I'll start to review some articles.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Ubiquity reviewed.

Well, I've had some problems testing the Mac Os application launchers, because I couldn't get a stable Mac Os X virtual machine to work with. Meanwhile, I made some improvements on my Survey and also have reviewed the Ubiquity add-on, for Firefox. This add-on is really interesting and useful.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Linux apps reviewed

Ok. I've finished the review of all Linux application launchers that I found to be relevant.

Here is the list:
Now, it’s time to review Mac OS's application launchers. It should be accomplished by tomorrow.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Windows apps reviewed

This week I started to make the Survey for my thesis. The first step consists in reviewing all current available application launchers and take into consideration the pros and cons of each one. So far, I've already review all application launchers that I found to be relevant, for Microsoft Windows.

Here is the list of application launchers already reviewed in the Survey:
  1. ac'tivAid
  2. CAL
  3. Colibri
  4. DOMercury (didn't work on my SP2 nor my SP3 install)
  5. ENSO
  6. Executor
  7. Find and Run Robot
  8. Launchy
  9. Keybreeze Personal Edition
  10. Shuriken
  11. Speed Launch
In the next week I should already have reviewed all relevant application launchers for Linux and Mac OS.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Blog up!

Ok, the blog is finally up. Now it's time to start filling it with some fresh news.

I should post something new in no more than a month.