Valet is new Mac OS X application launcher
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Feb 1, 2007 at 8:54am
94West has released Valet, a new application launcher for Mac OS X 10.4. It records the applications that you use and provides access to them. According to the folks at 94West, Valet “watches” as you launch applications, allowing you to categorize them on the fly.
The next time you need one of those applications, you can use Valet to launch it with the heads-up display or a menu bar icon. Valet allows you multiple methods to launch your applications, including: using voice commands in the Valet Heads-up Display; using the keyboard and/or mouse in the Heads-ups Display; using the Valet status menu on the global menu bar; or using the Valet Dock menu
Valet also supports launching of Windows applications via Parallels Desktop for Mac version 2.5. If Parallels isn’t running, Valet will launch Parallels for you, using the virtual machine that hosted the application you launched. Valet also supports: Growl notifications, automatic downloading and installation of updates with Sparkle and Apple Help
Valet costs US$25 per license. A fully functional, 30-day demonstration can be downloaded at the 94West web site. Valet is a Universal Binary product so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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