Hands-on with Bulter

19.12.2008
Over the years, various editor's here have espoused their preference in the way of program launchers--Dan Frakes prefers , Dan Miller relies on , while I find to be indispensible. Since that piece was written, Butler has found a .

Despite our differing opinions on which launcher to use, all of us agree that you can be much more productive with a launcher utility than without.

While I've discussed Butler here in many different articles over the years, I realized that I'd never covered it on video...and since a picture is worth 1,000 words, I thought I'd use this installment of the Macworld Video to demonstrate just a few of Butler's more interesting features. What I don't actually demonstrate is the basic use of Butler as a launcher; it's covered pretty well in my original write-up, and honestly, it's one of Butler's more basic features.

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Format: MPEG-4/H.264

Resolution: 320 x 240 (iPhone & iPod compatible)