Objective Development announces Beta Version of LaunchBar 5

Vienna, Austria – December 5, 2008 — Objective Development today announced the availability of a first beta version of LaunchBar 5, the next major release of its popular, award winning productivity utility.

LaunchBar 5 introduces an impressive set of new features. It now comes with a built-in Clipboard History, a new and unique ClipMerge functionality for merging subsequent Copy operations, it adds Quick Look support, iCal support for creating events and to-do items, has a significantly improved, extensible Calculator, provides keyboard access to Mac OS X Services, and much, much more.

Other highlights include:

- Redesigned configuration and preferences interface.
- Lots of new and improved actions
- Much improved file operations
- Fully customizable hotkeys
- Modifier Taps
- Firefox 3 support
- German localization
- Automatic software update
- Scriptable via AppleScript
- New application icon

A detailed listing of all new features is available at:

http://www.obdev.at/launchbar/

This page also provides a number of screenshots in the right column.
Click the thumbnails to get enlarged full size versions of the screenshots.

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Availability
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LaunchBar 5 beta 1 for Mac OS X is available now and can be downloaded from:

http://www.obdev.at/launchbar/

LaunchBar 5 is not yet available for purchase.
The beta version expires on Jan 15, 2009.

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Press Contact
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Norbert Heger
Objective Development
launchbar {at} obdev(.)at

Objective Development Software GmbH
Gro§e Schiffgasse 1A/7
A-1020 Vienna, Austria / Europe
http://www.obdev.at/