Work faster and with less frustration. Speed Launch gives you lightning quick access to all the documents, files, and websites you use often. Speed Launch is a new app launcher from the Office Labs team. With Speed Launch, users can select their own words to open frequently used websites, documents, and applications. The most compelling feature of Speed launch is the use of a drag and drop interaction model to make this advanced functionality more intuitive to novice computer users. With Speed Launch you’ll be able to start your most often used applications in a flash!

When you install Speed Launch, an icon in the shape of a bull’s eye gets added to the desktop. You may simply drag-n-drop files, browser tabs, program shortcuts over this icon to setup an alias or give that file a more meaningful and easy-to-remember name.
You may also create shortcuts to write search queries. For example, to search Wikipedia just type “Wikipedia Search” and hit enter (it will auto-complete as soon as type the first few characters). Next, type what you want to search for in the new window and hit enter. When you install Speed Launch, you agree that the application will periodically upload usage metrics to Microsoft. If its not a concern, go ahead an install the software. Speed Launch is a free download for Windows only, requires .NET 3.0 to run.

Download: here

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 4:40 am | by Kur-nia-one |