Katapulting away from the menu.
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| Katapult not only does programs it also does your browser bookmarks as well.
| Not just Konqueror but Firefox too. Just slingshot katapult into action with
| the changable key combination and start typing the name of your desired
| bookmark. Katapult again does its autocomplete magic and brings up your
| closest matching browser bookmark.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/katapulting-away-from-the-menu-21321
Related:
Launch your programs faster with Katapult
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| One of the biggest navigational issues with any operating system is
| using program menus. Windows users have to open the Start Menu, scan
| for the program, realize that the program is probably in the subfolder
| under the programmer?s name, scan the appropriate subfolder, and then
| click on the program?s icon. Macintosh users must open Finder, find
| and click on the Applications folder, and then search for the
| program's name. GNOME and KDE users have an advantage: they have
| categories in their respective Applications and K menus.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/katapult
Analyst slams Vista's 'backward' UI
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| Windows Vista is a step back in usability, researcher claims
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsID=17334
Vista: Slow and Dangerous
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| The most exasperating thing about Vista, though, is the security
| feature called User Account Control. UAC, satirized in an Apple
| ad as a security guy who constantly interrupts a conversation,
| appears as a pop-up asking permission before Windows...
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http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/BusinessWeek/2007/03/26/3124001
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