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Notes from the launcher
Product updates, deep dives into keyboard-first workflows, and the occasional rant about Spotlight. Written by the CmdSpace team.
· CmdSpace Team
How to audit your launcher's network activity on macOS
Your launcher is the app you press more times a day than any other. It has Accessibility permission, Full Disk Access, and a foreground process that runs constantly. If it phones home — to log usage, to fetch updates, to sync settings, to…
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· CmdSpace Team
Where is Alfred in 2026? A look at the v6 era
Alfred is the original macOS launcher. It shipped in 2010, hit its stride in the 2014-2018 era with the Powerpack and workflows, and is still around in 2026 in its v6 generation. For long-time users the question "is Alfred still good" rare…
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