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10.6: Jump to path via global Service
Authored by: ehunt123 on Sun, Nov 8 2009 at 12:42PM PST

Open, while it has slowly evolved over the years, can be painful to work with, since Apple tends to have longer paths (~/Applications/App.app), esoteric CFBundleIdentifiers, and I doubt it would be useful to write a sh* frontend to it that parses your Applications by path or MD (spotlight).

I stumbled onto this developer's project that still works great in 10.6, called launch.

It's open with many more features and lots of things Apple should have copied, er integrated into open.

http://www.sabi.net/nriley/software/

Added bonus is it being opensource