UPDATED: Great app! A Must Buy

Note: This is an updated review after a recent problem that caused Tablauncher to not run was fixed.

Tablauncher is the perfect complement to the Mac user interface. It enables you to create multiple multi-tabbed docs that you can use to organize yourself by task. I have specific tabs for my art, music, and writing that contain the files, folders, URLs, and apps that I use for these respective tasks. It streamlines my work and helps keep everything in easy reach.

My eyes aren’t great any more, so it’s a real help that I can adjust the icon size for the icons in my docks to be comfortable for me.

I have my regulart tabs docked to the top of my screen with auto-hide turned on. So when I want my tabs, I just bump the top of the screen.

This app also offers two special tabs that I use a lot: Running and Windows. The Running tab, as you might expect, shows the currently running apps. The Windows tab shows all of the current windows. With the Running and Windows tabs, it’s easy to switch between active windows and apps without having to switch to the keyboard. I keep these together in a dock on the bottom of my screen. I’ve shrunk the OS X dock down to almost nothing because I don’t use it much. As a result, my Running+Windows dock can share the space across the bottom of my screen with the OS X dock with no conflict.

I haven’t yet tried Tablauncher’s scripting capabilities yet even though I’ve been using it for a few years. Apparently, you can create scripts to automate your regular tasks and assign them to an icon in one of Tablauncher’s docks.

I tried all of Tablauncher’s competition, and there was only one that was as good. And it costs $30! No thannks. I’ll stick with Tablauncher for as long as the developer will keep maintaining it at the current level of quality.

RulonThudpucker about Tab Launcher