Alfred - an indispensable tool Mac

I think everyone knows one of the most famous butler-Alfred. He has for many years used in the estate of Wayne. His Alfred is in the Mac App Store. Like its prototype application called Alfred apple computers help users cope with almost any task.

Alfred bit like Spotlight, one of the most important and useful tools for Mac. However, he has a huge number of additional features, some of which will be available for some money. But let's start from the beginning.

Immediately after installation and run the virtual assistant you'll get a small window with a description and multiple tabs with settings. The main thing you need to know about Alfred, this is his call. By default, you can do it with a keyboard shortcut Option + Space.


Originally Alfred help you launch applications, find the files you want (you have to request to write a word find) or information on the network, open a web page in a browser. Besides Alfred somewhat familiar with basic system commands. For example, if you
write in a row «quit», then he proposed to close one of the currently running applications.

In the full version, which can be downloaded at the official site of the developer for 15 euros, this functionality is added to listen to music, send email, simply by typing in the box contact Alfred, Apple and execute shell scripts. By the way, thanks to the support scripts, some users manage to bind to Alfred
huge number of additional functions.


Summarizing, we can say that a few days have passed since the acquaintance with Alfred, I began to use it consistently. For all its simplicity, the application is easy to cope with all the daily tasks and greatly simplifies the already simple process of communication with apple computer.

Alfred normal version can be downloaded at Mas App Store for free.