![]() What does it do? How does it function?Īt any point in time, you can invoke Alfred by pressing a user-programmable keyboard shortcut. So let's start with the basics of Alfred. This is particularly ironic given that Google is the mother of all search companies. ![]() Even Google's desktop search for Windows is lacking in comparison. Both Microsoft's and Apple's built in search functions pale in comparison to Alfred. It's everything that the built-in search function on modern OSes should be. Alfred: Command line > software UIĪlfred is Spotlight++. Each of these apps optimizes its UI mechanism to the point of perfection. This post will focus on Alfred, and my next post on BetterTouchTool. Alfred and BetterTouchTool are apps for OSX that extend the functionality of the keyboard and mouse tremendously. Thus, we're left with 2 forms of physical interaction. ![]() Sure, there are ancillary ways to interact like the webcam and microphone, but would you really say that your primary form of interaction with your computer is your webcam? Or microphone? Exactly. PCs have 2 physical forms of user interface - the keyboard and the mouse/trackpad. You only interact with a PC in 2 fundamental ways The third post will discuss the intermingling of these apps and possibilites for future UI improvements. The first 2 posts are an will lay out use cases that demonstrate why the Apple + Alfred + BetterTouchTool trifecta is the perfect UI in the desktop/laptop environment. The post will focus on the keyboard, the second on the mouse/trackpad, and the third on the future of UIs. This blog post is the first in a 3-part post. But if I'm not restricted to a binary response, then I choose Apple + Alfred + BetterTouchTool. If the only choices to the question above are Microsoft and Apple, then I choose Apple in a heartbeat. Who creates the best UI in the desktop/laptop environment, Microsoft or Apple? Most people who know me would say that I would say Apple, given my self-proclaimed "Apple enthusiast" (not fanboy) status. One of the center pieces of the age-old Mac vs PC debate has been about UI.
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