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Threshold: Beta test a beta of a beta

thresholdapp:

… a partial list of improvements to come:

• New and improved Twitter support (including autocompleting @mentions and inline url shortening)
• Improved google voice support
• Turn contexts off (or back on) to hide them from the UI if you don’t use them
• The default context now launches apps, does math, and runs web searches along with the standard filesystem path navigation. Just type what you want to do and Threshold will figure it out. “~/Desktop” opens the desktop folder, “9*9” will show you “81”, “puppies” will open a web search in your default browser for puppies, and “Safari” will launch Safari. As soon as you start typing Threshold will tell you what it thinks you want to do (including searching thru apps to launch), just hit enter if that’s what you want. So really “Sa” would launch Safari.
• The shortcuts plist (that you can edit in preferences»shortcuts) which lets you specify autocompletions in the default context (how “d/” expands to “~/Desktop/”) can now also be edited to include application and url shortcuts. Just hit the plus button, type “app:Mail” in the right column, and “ml” in the left column. Close preferences and type “ml” into the default context and Threshold will offer to launch Mail for you. For urls use “url:nytimes.com” instead of “app:….”
• Improved email context now support Sparrow as well as Mail and (in Prefs»Options) you can choose to have Threshold compose your emails directly in gmail (opens a web page set to a gmail compose email page with address/sub/body filled in with whatever you typed in Threshold).
• The context field hides when you’re in the default context. Just hit tab or a keyboard shortcut (for a context) to bring it back.
• And more.

(Source: thresholdapp)