LaunchBar 5.3 Released With Improved Mountain Lion Support

LaunchBar, a utility which lets you quickly launch things on your Mac, has been updated to version 5.3.

LaunchBar is a smart and powerful, keyboard driven productivity utility that lets you access and control every aspect of your digital life. Whatever you want to get done on your Mac – with LaunchBar it's only a few keystrokes away.

New Features and Improvements
● Improved compatibility with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
● Optimized for MacBook Pro with Retina display (preliminary, a few missing high resolution images will be added shortly).
● Quick access to 1Password bookmarks, tags and folders - either directly (by entering an abbreviation) or via browsing. Note: You may have to add a new 1Password indexing rule in LaunchBar's index window.
● Quick access to Tower repositories. Switch to repositories in Tower or browse the contents of the corresponding working copy.
● Improved calendar support
-- Distinction between reminders and calendars
-- Growl notifications for new events and reminders
● Extended support for third party email clients
-- Quickly send files or text to contacts from your address book.
-- Built-in support for Apple Mail, Mailplane, Microsoft Outlook, Postbox, Sparrow.
-- The email client used for sending emails is either chosen automatically, or it can be selected manually in LaunchBar Preferences > Actions > Options.
-- Ability to set up a custom AppleScript instead (by implementing on sendFiles(_files, _emailAddresses) and on sendText(_text, _emailAddresses) handlers).
● Added "Copy Name" and "Copy and Paste Name" to built-in actions.
● Improved QuickCal support.
● Indication if an item in an application's recent documents list is located in iCloud.
● The "xcworkspace" file type has been added to the "Xcode Project Files" file type collection.
● Gatekeeper ready


Bug Fixes
● Addresses an issue with contacts indexing on OS 10.8 Mountain Lion.
● Addresses an issue related to application indexing via Spotlight.
● Phone numbers labeled with "iPhone" are now displayed as mobile phone numbers.
● Fixes an issue with search templates containing #-characters.

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