Control Your Mac with LaunchBar

1. Move Things Around

Select one file (or more) in the Finder, open LaunchBar (Command-Space), press Command-G to pass that file to LaunchBar, and press Tab. That opens a list of apps that can launch the file, but start typing the name of a folder you want to move it to, and when it comes up (you’ll see text saying Drag to…), press Return, and off it goes. Rather copy that file than move it? Hold down Option and press Return.

2. Play an Album

Press Command-Space to open a LaunchBar query, then type ALB to get to the Albums category of your iTunes library. Press Return to select Albums, then either type the name of an album or use the arrow keys to browse the list. When you find the album you want, press Return to play it in iTunes.

3. Search And Find

LaunchBar also lets you set a shortcut for searching with Spotlight, only it will preprocess your query and submit it in Spotlight’s special search syntax for more targeted results with less fuss. “Cat picture” will parse as “kind:image cat” and look for images with “Cat” in the filename. Plus, it doesn’t start searching until you press Return.