Have you recently found yourself asking “boy, won’t someone make a Twitterrific-inspired theme for Alfred?”
Don Southard has granted your wish with two Twitterrific-inspired Alfred Themes—one dark, one light, at his site, Dirt.
Alfred, the incredibly useful productivity utility from Running with Crayons, lets you create “Groups” for launching a bunch of apps and files all at once (the Powerpack add-on is required). Add everything you want to a list, give it a keyword, and call it up whenever you want your Mac to do more of your work for you.
Right-click a group in Alfred’s preferences and you can export it as a .alfredextension file to share with others. Running with Crayons now has an Extensions site for finding more extensions and sharing your creations.
Taking this idea one step further in version 1.0 which just went beta, Alfred’s upcoming Global Hotkeys feature allows you to assign keyboard shortcuts to open Groups, collections of URLs, specific apps, toggling iTunes features, and more.
Alfred is free to use. Its Powerpack option, required for features mentioned here and many others, costs about $20.
Alfred Extensions & Scripts
Alfred, a great productivity utility, has an official extension directory that now sports over 100 goodies to do everything from search Evernote, tweet without a Twitter client, and set your Adium status.
Note: using these extensions requires a purchase of Alfred’s Powerpack, which is on a pre-1.0 release sale and definitely worth it.
The one in which you play a random album
There are those indecisive moments. We all have them. And especially when it comes to choosing just the right type of music entertainment for the following moments.
