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Re:Alfred App by redmage on Monday March 08, 2010 @04:53PM (#1176570)
I didn't mean to be too evil in my comment. I actually like the design and how fast it feels (not that QSB is slow). :)

I'll keep tuned for updates. It does seems promising, although it isn't yet complete enough for me (or for people who tend to use Quicksilver as more than just an application launcher).

EDIT: I just noticed Alfred uses very little memory (12.5MB after launching an app). http://grab.by/2V19

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Re:Alfred App by spooneybarger on Monday March 08, 2010 @05:03PM (#1176604)
I remember the days when the entire BeOS operating system could run in 4 megs of ram. An application launcher running in 12.5 megs will never count as 'very little memory' to me.
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Re:Alfred App by redmage on Monday March 08, 2010 @05:11PM (#1176630)
I used to use dmenu in Linux, which used just a few kilobytes of memory, wasn't running all the time in the background and was fast...

My point was how little memory Alfred uses when compared the Quicksilver or Google QSB (the latter currently taking up 39MB at the moment).

[I just noticed this reply was an example of this: http://xkcd.com/386/]

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Re:Alfred App by spooneybarger on Monday March 08, 2010 @11:26PM (#1177472)
I didn't say you were wrong. I said that 12.5 megs will never count as 'very little memory' to me.

It is a matter of perspective, not correctness.

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