Orbiter for Mac

Where is the link?

Its a pity and it makes you wonder why someone would write such a harsh review. Then to come upon this app and find that development has stopped and the site is no longer in existence shows that expectations by users on developers is not a one way thing. As users surely we have some duty to help people develop their software. bye bye orbiter, I hope you develop a killer app someday

It's nice that this app is free, but I guess it would have to be, because who would pay for it? The developer's description says almost NOTHING about what it is, just that it "allows you to launch applications quickly," and that it's "meant as a side addition to the Dock." It gives no indication about how [NOTHING] works, what [NOTHING]'s strengths are, how to invoke [NOTHING], why I might like [NOTHING], why I should try [NOTHING], or anything else that might be useful to someone looking for a launcher on MacUpdate.com. And the dead zone doesn't stop there. If, like me, you're hyper-curious about useless things laying around, and despite its MacUpdate.com post's nearly complete lack of a description, you downloaded Orbiter to figure it out, you might as well tell your secretary to hold all your calls and cancel your afternoon appointments because the app itself is just as unhelpful as the description. It has NO help files and NO in-app links to the developer's website. Even the disk image you downloaded from MacUpdate has NO README file that describes [NOTHING] or instructs you how to install [NOTHING]! But it does contain a list of changes to [NOTHING] in case you're curious about how [NOTHING] has developed since [NOTHING] was first released on October 19, 2008! So, you spend 20 minutes trying to figure out what [NOTHING] is, how [NOTHING] works, and whether [NOTHING] can improve your workflow in any meaningful way. What did you discover? [NOTHING].

This application launcher requires you to double or single click on the icon of the app you wish to open. Also, you must manually add each application to the list before using this program. If you prefer to use quick keyboard shortcuts (as with QuicksSilver or Launchbar), you might not like this mouse-dependent app. The GUI is clean, but a bit limited and on the bland side. Suggestion for the dev: add the option for user configurable colors and text. The available choices are too few. Things you might like: Orbiter allows item tagging which can really come in handy if you want to organize a group of disparate items and open them simultaneously. Ex: You're building a webpage about bikes. You can tag your source material including pics, docs, sketches, icons, and other media along with the client's invoice and ichat transcripts in Orbiter and open it all at once. In this situation, Orbiter is much quicker than using other apps like QS or Launchbar because these items must be opened individually there. The simple interface might be preferable to users who find Quicksilver and Launchbar too overwhelming. Since you manually add only the items you want, the list will stay as small or as large as you like. In other words, you will only be shown choices that you've put there, so you won't have to scroll past "BootCamp Assistant" when you're looking for "Calculator". All in all, a nice effort. Very nice that it's free ... and Snow Leopard compatible. Cheers!

Orbiter is great! I like it because there is not so much free launcher around that use the mouse pointer instead of keystrokes (Filegazer, Sapiens … are shareware). thx to the developper for this freeware!