June 5, 2006
Butler buttles with the best of them
Posted Jun. 5, ’06, 8:38 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software
There’ve been some great butlers in history: Alfred Pennyworth. Jeeves.* Scottish heartthrob Gerard Butler.
But I’m prepared to say that none of these fine gentlemen can hold a candle to Peter Maurer’s Butler. Billed as “The Original Many-Tricks Pony,” Butler is often compared to Quicksilver and LaunchBar. Proponents of each of these programs can get quite heated when their allegiance is challenged, but honestly it simply comes down to a matter of personal preference. I’ve tried all three at different points, and I have to say that Butler is my hands-down favorite. Why?
Well, for one reason, a lot of the time, when I go looking for an app to perform a particular function, it turns out that Butler can already do that. Just the other day, for example, I was looking for a good clipboard enhancer. Somehow, a quick Googling revealed that Butler could handle multiple pasteboards, and sure enough, when I dug through the preferences, I saw that there was in fact an option for that. I started using Butler as a launcher, but as Peter writes on his website: “don’t worry if you don’t have a use for all of its features right from the beginning. Just start using Butler and discover a new feature every day.”
It’s almost as if Butler anticipates my every move. Eat your heart out, Jeeves.
*Yes, technically Jeeves is not a butler, but a valet, but I’m taking some liberties.
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Try as I might, I can't get used to Butler. I always come back to LaunchBar.