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Saves timeOpen applications and documents the way you left them. Do this by taking Snapshots of running applications. Protect yourself from unplanned re-starts by taking optional Auto Snapshots that it starts automatically when you next log in. Take snapshots of any combination of OS X applications – name them by context, e.g. ‘Work’, ‘Play’, ‘Development’ etc.
As well as remembering and launching applications that you had open it also knows how to re-open individual documents for over 20 popular mac applications including Office, iWork, FlexTime, SubEthaEdit, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle, Voodoo Pad and more… So not only will it restart the applications themselves, but it will also re-open the files you were working on when you took the snapshot. Get back on task quickly after a software update restart or a power cut using Relaunch’s incredibly simple to set up ‘Auto-Snapshot’ feature. Instead of logging back into an empty desktop Relaunch will fire up everything that was running before your mac shutdown. |
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November 15th, 2006 at 12:15 am
Automator????
:)
November 15th, 2006 at 12:16 am
Wow, this app is amazing. This is a definite buy for me!
November 15th, 2006 at 12:32 am
First interesting app in a while, cheap too :)
November 15th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Not a huge discount, but something I can use. Let’s go for BOTH something I can use and a HUUUUUGE discount tomorrow though, K? :D
November 15th, 2006 at 1:57 am
Hell, I’n in. Nice lil’ app. I can see this develop into something interesting. And the price is right too. At $5 the discount cannot be bigger… we want to support developers, don’t we?
November 15th, 2006 at 3:32 am
I really want to want this. If I had any flimsy excuse I’d buy this. It’s so cool.
November 15th, 2006 at 4:05 am
http://wiredupandfiredup.co.uk/Relaunch/index.html
Why the aversion to providing a link to the Dev site?
November 15th, 2006 at 4:12 am
This is interesting to me. Would it, by any chance, be able to take a snapshot of a web browser and open a bunch of pages for you?
November 15th, 2006 at 4:14 am
Cool! One of my suggestions. Zotted!
November 15th, 2006 at 4:19 am
The “Try It” download links to an outdated version (1.3.4). Version 1.3.5 is out and now supports Text Mate so do an update as soon as you install!
November 15th, 2006 at 4:32 am
flec65 – “Would it, by any chance, be able to take a snapshot of a web browser and open a bunch of pages for you?”
I don’t belive it can, but Omniweb has this functionality and it is on sale for $10 throughout November. I just got it and I like it a lot. It was awkward paying for a browser, but worth it. It also relaunches tabs after quiting/crash without having to take a snapshot, and has the ability to save groups of tabs into workspaces.
I’ll second Cameron. I wish I had a reason to use this .app because it looks really cool, and I know a lot of folks love it, but I just don’t have much of a use for it. I wish it included the functionality of the free Himmellbar, which will can all running .apps. If there was an .app that combined Relaunch, Himmelbar, Application Wizard, and AppStalker, I would deffintly find a way to make it useful in my daily workflow. I might just Zot! to support the developer. :)
November 15th, 2006 at 4:34 am
Derrr… I meant to say “which can quit all running .apps.” My bad. Haven’t had my coffee yet!
November 15th, 2006 at 4:58 am
so, has anyone actually used this yet?
November 15th, 2006 at 5:13 am
I DL’d it and set up a snapshot of seven apps, a few with specific doc’s open. I closed everything and Launched the snapshot. All seven apps opened but none of the specific documents did (from Excel, OmniOutliner, and AppleWorks 6)
November 15th, 2006 at 6:28 am
Hey Mikey, I think they like.
First ZOT in weeks too so I’m part of the heard. MooZOT.
November 15th, 2006 at 6:37 am
I’ve been using this since it was first released. I love it, it’s very stable, and as you use it more and more creative implementations emerge. Very cool and easily worth such a tiny amount of money for something that will change the way your work. Too bad I already bought it before this sale and lost more than one dollar!
November 15th, 2006 at 9:11 am
Ericq said “…Omniweb has this functionality and it is on sale for $10 throughout November. I just got it and I like it a lot. It was awkward paying for a browser, but worth it. It also relaunches tabs after quiting/crash without having to take a snapshot, and has the ability to save groups of tabs into workspaces.”
Is there any other feedback you can provide about Omniweb? I downloaded it and am trying it now and it is definitely different. I’m not sure if I like the tab previews over on the side of the screen. Also, how does it compare to Safari for functionality? Is it also built with the Apple WebKit? Just wondering because Safari is such a streamlined, well-done web browser that it is hard for me to switch to another, especially if I have to pay $10 to switch. Anyhow, I’m going to browse around the web for some reviews and such. Perhaps you can provide some likes/dislikes as you work with it some more. Thanks in advance for any info you might have.
November 15th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Interesting Zot. Not something I will probably use regularly, but for the price I’ll take a shot that I’ll find a good use for it.
As for OmniWeb, it isn’t the perfect browser, but it has some very nice features that make it worth looking at, especially for $10.
The “tab” interface as noted is a bit awkward. If you have plenty of screen real estate and you don’t like a traditional tabbed browsing interface you might like it.
It is built now on Apple’s WebKit with optimizations so I find that it works better with some sites that Safari does not work well with and vice versa.
It does have a fairly nice Mac-like interface and they are committed to keeping it updated with new features and fixing computability issues.
I myself use Camino as my main browser followed by Safari and then OmniWeb. I rarely use Firefox on the Mac because it is so slow and non-Mac-like. However Firefox is my browser of choice when using a PC.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:20 am
SuperFuzz said,
I DL’d it and set up a snapshot of seven apps, a few with specific doc’s open. I closed everything and Launched the snapshot. All seven apps opened but none of the specific documents did (from Excel, OmniOutliner, and AppleWorks 6)
I just tried it, and it opened Entourage, Excel with 4 spreadsheets from a USB drive just as I had it. I’m using a MBP 17″ with 10.4.8. I’m scooping this up.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:28 am
It supports Omni Group products and MS Office, and DEVONthink. All of which I use regularly.
Normally I write scripts that launch groups of documents and applications, but this looks to be more dynamic. It is also better than writing AppleScript in Apple’s editor.
I think I’m in…. 4 bucks, I’m in !
Side note on browsers, Safri, OmniWeb and DevonTech’s browsers are all built on the same backbone of code. Despite this, for some reason sites that once crashed Safri, didn’t crash OmniWeb or DEVONagent or DEVONthink.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:34 am
The problem with this app IMO is the fact it will only remember open documents from 20 specific apps.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:34 am
The problem with this app IMO is the fact it will only remember open documents from 20 specific apps.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:35 am
Hi Mark, it’s actually 30 now and the list keeps growing!
November 15th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Hi, I’m the developer of Relaunch and it’s great to see so many positive comments!
To answer a few points:
1- Browser support – I’m working on this but it’s very difficult as with the possible exception of OmniWeb the current browsers don’t really support the required AppleScript that Relaunch needs. I’ve got a solution in prototype for Safari and Camino, so keep you eye out for updates.
2- Quit all apps – Hopefully will be in the next version, it’s been asked for before. In the meantime you can save an empty Snapshot, then launching it and chosing ‘Yes’ when it asks to quit all apps will do this for you :)
Anyway, that’s enough from me – happy Zotting :)
Richy
November 15th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Are SnapShots somehow tied to a machine? I go back and forth between my work and home computers, with an external hard drive. It would be great to be able to 1) take a SnapShot at the end of the day at work and 2) launch the SnapShot at home in the evening to continue where I left off.
November 15th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
MK – do you know I’ve never tried that. If all the documents you’re working with are on the external drive and all the apps are in the same location (i.e. Applications folder) it probably will work just fine (assuming the external drive mounts with the same name/path)
I can’t guarantee it at this point, but I’ll certainly be trying it out myself! I’d be interested in exploring this further.
November 15th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
I like OmniWeb. Best things IMO are Workspaces and the per-site-defaults you can set.
To be fair: Camino now also allows to start with all the tabs you close it with (or when it crashed) and I think Firefox, too (not sure). Also, in FF you can simply save all open tabs in a bookmark folder and then call them up again, all at once.
Today’s ZOT seems really useful. Bought it. :)
November 15th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
That’s a really good idea…
but only if it works for every program I tend to use at the time. And, frankly, I have a good enough memory to do this myself.
I can see why people would like this (and why I would), but… nah.
November 15th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Yeah, the question for me is whether I want to buy the software for the potential route it will go in the future. As Groxx said, the work-home snapshot would be useful only if Relaunch worked for every app I use (and I use lots of apps that are not on Relaunch’s list right now).
November 15th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Regarding OMNIWeb, it is a great browser. I purchased it a long time ago. I’m very used to Tab browsing in OW, and prefer it to the Tab browsing in other browsers.
It is not perfect, but the OMNI ninjas offer great support. Under the Help menu there’s an item to send feedback. If you report a bug that they can reproduce, they will work on fixing it.
I still use FireFox, Opera, and others from time to time, but I would say I use OW at least 90% of the time.
November 15th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Thanks for the heads up on OW. The current $10 price is for a single license. $15 will get you a household license (5 seats) and with 4 Mac’s in the house it seems like a no-brainer. I like the fact that you can set your default prefs for any website to JavaScript off and don’t accept cookies, then turn them on at a site-by-site basis as needed.
November 15th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
wish I could do it per-app…
November 15th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
Wow… I didn’t expect mentioning OmniWeb would set off such a good disscussion. Everyone pretty much covered the features that set it apart from the rest. Workgroups, source code editor, site specific prefs, customizable search engines, good bookmark manager, very scriptable, a feature called view links where you can view all the links within a page in the bookmark panel, and lots of other goodies. There is also some awesome cocoaness that I can’t really descibe, but it’s sweet. Such as, you can take a URL, drag it onto the bookmark toolbar button, and that brings up the bookmark window so you can drag it wherever you want it. Much better than selecting a destination through a clumsy menu.
Anyway.. I’m not Zotting! Relaunch, but I can see myself buying it in the future.
November 15th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
From the description, Relaunch looked like a great addition to Mac OS X. I’ve been using OmniWeb’s workspaces for at least a couple of years, and I can’t imagine switching to a browser without workspaces.
I downloaded Relaunch, but before I created my first snapshot, reality struck. At the moment, I have 35-40 applications active. I’m not really interested in closing down my everything each time I want to create a snapshot.
I went ahead and took a snapshot of everything, with the hope the .snap file would be hackable XML. Nope, it’s a binary file. So I can’t edit it down to a handful of applications.
If Relaunch offered selective Save (“pick the applications you want to save”), I’m sure I’d add it to my toolbox.
I think I’ll wait and see if Relaunch gets smarter.
November 15th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on OmniWeb. I tried it out all day and read some reviews as well as the posts here and decided to get it.
Thanks to Richy for posting here. I zotted Relaunch after trying it out for a few hours. I’ve got some fine-tuned snapshots set up already and am loving it. Keep up the good work!
November 15th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
I second the comments on OmniWeb. I now use it about 98% of the time followed by Safari and Firefox. I absolutely love it (aside from some of its quirks). Unfortunately, I didn’t get the special sale price (I got it at the EDU price a couple months ago). Relaunch was a good ZOT for me!