Launching Applications in Leopard

There are a number of ways you could launch applications in Mac OS-X Leopard.For instance, you could:

1. Press command + space to bring up Spotlight and type the first few letters of the application that you want to launch and when your preferred search result pops up in the Spotlight window, just hit Enter and your application will launch.

 

2. Open up a Finder window, go to your Applications folder, scroll till you find the app that you want, and double click on it to launch it.

 

3. Go download Quicksilver, which for launching applications is a lot like Spotlight in that all you have to do is press whatever your shortcut key is for launching Quicksilver (ctrl + space) and then type in the applications name and hit enter.

 

4. Bring up a Finder window, find your Applications folder, drag it to the dock, and click on your application from there.

 

5. If you want to bring up multiple applications at the same time, you can open up Apple Script’s Script Editor and type in a few lines of code to tell your computer which applications you want to activate, save that as an application, and then run it.

 

I find option 4 to be the most efficient way of doing things, because not only can I launch several applications at once, but I can also tell those applications to start doing certain things.For instance, if I tell Script Editor that I want to open Safari, while I’m at it I can tell Safari to open a few desired Web pages that I would like it to open automatically. If I want to launch the Mail app, then I might as well write another line of code telling it that I also want to check for new mail, or that I want to compose a new mail message to a certain contact upon launch.