Name: LaunchBar Version: 6.1.6 Mac Platform: Intel Includes: Pre-K'ed OS version: OS X 10.9 or later Processor type(s) & speed: 64-bit processor Block.
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Compatibility with macOS MojaveThis version of LaunchBar is compatible with macOS Mojave, but due to improved privacy protection in macOS Mojave, some LaunchBar features require additional permissions to be granted in System Preferences Security & Privacy Privacy:. Indexing of Safari Bookmarks requires LaunchBar to be added to “Full Disk Access”. Otherwise LaunchBar won’t be able to read the bookmarks file, which is located in your Library folder. Instant Send and Get/Drop Finder Selection require LaunchBar to be added to “Accessibility”. Otherwise LaunchBar won’t be able to simulate a Command-C keystroke, which is necessary for reading the currently selected text or file. The Clipboard History also requires LaunchBar to be added to “Accessibility”. Otherwise LaunchBar won’t be able to simulate a Command-V keystroke, which is necessary when inserting data from the Clipboard History in other applications.Dark Mode supportLaunchBar now supports Dark Mode in macOS Mojave.
Note that the appearance of LaunchBar’s main interface is still determined by the selected theme, independent from the current system appearance. So if you’ve selected the Dark Mode in Mojave, you can choose one of the dark themes in LaunchBar ( Dark or Base Dark).In a future update there will be an option to automatically change LaunchBar’s theme in accordance with the current system appearance (provided that the chosen theme also provides a dark variant). Other changes. LaunchBar 6.10 now requires at least OS X 10.10 or later. If you are running an older OS version, you can. Further improved compatibility with 1Password 7.
NEW Info browsing of 1Password Login items (selecting the item in LaunchBar and pressing Right Arrow) now also provides access to the item’s Autofill Link. This link can be copy/pasted to other documents – opening them will then open the corresponding login page in your web browser and autofill the login form. It’s now possible (again) to open non-Login items (like credit cards, secure notes, etc.) via LaunchBar to opens 1Password’s summary window showing all the details of that item. It’s now possible (again) to trigger a search in 1Password by selecting the 1Password app in LaunchBar and then pressing Shift-Space.New Features and Improvements. NEW Numeric increments during text input.
You can now press Command-Up/Down during text input to increment/decrement a number at the cursor position by one, or press Shift-Command-Up/Down to increment/decrement it by ten. This comes quite handy in LaunchBar’s calculator, but can be used in many other situations as well, whenever numeric text input is involved (in custom actions, when renaming files, etc.). NEW Indexing of Share Menu Actions can now be turned on/off separately in the Options pane of the Actions indexing rule.
Improved handling of file items returned by a custom action during text input as a live result. Compatibility with 1Password 7. If you have both version 7 and version 6 of 1Password installed on your computer, LaunchBar will by default index the items from the newer version. If you prefer to access the version 6 data instead, you can uncheck the “Prefer latest version of 1Password” option in the Options pane of the index window.Other improvements and bug fixes.
Added support for accessing repositories in Tower 3. Fixed an issue with LaunchBar’s built-in calculator when using custom bc definition files in /Library/Application Support/LaunchBar/Calculator.
Fixed: Indexing of birthdays could fail if a contact was linked across multiple accounts. Bug Fixes. Fixed various scripts that deal with phone numbers not working on macOS 10.13.2. This includes actions like “Call with iPhone”, “Call with Skype”, “Call with FaceTime”, and “Send iMessage”. Fixed an issue introduced in LaunchBar 6.9.3 where actions like “Compose iMessage” would send text as a file attachment instead of, you know, just text. Fixed revealing reminder items and clicking notifications after creating a reminder on macOS 10.13 not working. Fixed “Run iTerm Command” built-in action not working with newer versions of iTerm.
Fixed an issue where an empty window would become visible when using SwitchResX. Improvements. Updated the built-in “Browse Ulysses” action. It now supports the subscription, non-subscription and Setapp versions of Ulysses. Added support for LaunchBar actions to use images stored in an app’s asset catalog (Assets.car file). Added support for sending selected text to macOS Sharing Actions that normally only support sending files. You can now AirDrop any text from LaunchBar to another Mac or iOS device.
Improved 1Password info browsing to allow opening of URLs.Bug Fixes. Fixed Recent Documents of apps not updating on macOS High Sierra (10.13). Fixed an issue where an additional invisible window would be added to the list of LaunchBar’s windows for VoiceOver users on macOS High Sierra (10.13). This could also cause slowdowns in third-party app and window switchers. Fixed an issue where LaunchBar would sometimes steal the active app’s keyboard focus after switching spaces on macOS High Sierra (10.13). Fixed a bug that caused the Calculate MD5/SHA1/SHA256 Checksum actions to not work.
Fixed LaunchBar causing macOS to ask if you want to download the Osaka font. Fixed emoji icons being cut off on macOS Sierra (10.12). Fixed missing contact images for contact that are stored in multiple accounts. Appearance. Re-organized Themes.
Changed Default Theme. The previous default theme is still available (it has been renamed to “Base”). Improved legibility in the new Default Theme. Modernized design of the index window.Things 3 Integration. Added support for Things 3.
Much improved “Add to Things” action. The action now accepts multiple lines (typically via Send to) to generate multiple to-tos, one for each line. Provides feedback via user notification, describing what has been added.
Added actions for opening lists in Things 3 (Inbox, Today, Upcoming, Anytime, Someday). These actions are accessible either directly via abbreviation search, or by browsing the Things application (select Things in LaunchBar and press Right Arrow).1Password Integration. Improved 1Password indexing. Improved opening 1Password logins.
Removed legacy support for 1Password versions before 6.5.Other Improvements. Standard “Natural Scrolling” behavior in search result list.
Improved URL input when entering a colon while the TLD is selected. This now inserts the colon before the trailing slash. Makes it easier to enter port numbers, like in. Improved searching within results of custom actions.
Improved Emoji skin tone support. Improved Instant Calculate to ignore IPv4 addresses. Disabled actions are no longer shown when browsing an application’s associated actions. Fixed handling of “actionArgument” in JavaScript based custom actions. Improved Safari Tabs action to work with Safari opened full screen on a different space. Fixed incorrect display of reminder item priorities. Fixed DuckDuckGo action.
Due to a bug introduced in macOS 10.12.5 the search result wasn’t opened in the default browser (e.g. Safari) but in some other browser (e.g. Firefox). Fixed “Send iMessage” action (stopped working due to a bug in macOS 10.12.5). Improved 1Password integration. Thanks to the enhanced 3rd party integration of 1Password 6.5 we are now able to provide much more comprehensive access to your 1Password items. It’s now possible to access all kinds of items (not only logins but also credit cards, secure notes, etc.) from all vaults.
1Password categories (Logins, Passwords, Secure Notes, Credit Cards, Software Licenses, etc.) are now indexed. You can for example type CC to select 1Password’s “Credit Cards” category. You can then browse that category to get a list of all your credit cards stored in 1Password.
Browsing 1Password by selecting the 1Password app and pressing Right Arrow now provides a list of all available 1Password categories. Opening items that don’t perform a login on a website are now showing a window for viewing and editing that item.Actions. New “Safari Tabs” action provides access to all tabs that are currently opened in Safari. Allows to quickly switch to one of those tabs with the keyboard. New “Font Awesome Icons” action. Provides a list of all icons available in Font Awesome. You can sub-search that list for a particular icon by name, then press right arrow to access details of that icon (Icon Identifier, Unicode, HTML snippet for inserting that icon in your web-page, a link to the icon’s Font Awesome web-page).
Font Awesome icons can also be used in your custom LaunchBar actions. Just specify the icon’s “Icon Identifier” in Action Editor. New “Wiktionary” and “Wikiquote” actions with live suggestions. New localized “Wikipedia”, “Wiktionary” and “Wikiquote” actions to access those wikis in your preferred non-English language version (according to System Preferences Language & Region Preferred languages). Existing search templates for Wikipedia and Wiktionary are removed from the configuration. Please use the new actions instead. It may be necessary to re-train your abbreviations for these items.
Improved indexing of macOS Sharing Service actions. Updated Sample Actions (they can be downloaded from )Improved Emoji support. Emoji character names are now the same as those in the macOS Character Palette.
It’s now possible to search for emoji by alternative names. For example, type SPORT to find the basketball emoji, or type SPOCK to find a greeting gesture from a place where no man has gone before. Links to Emojipedia (accessible via Info Browsing of an emoji that’s selected in LaunchBar) now work more reliably with all kinds of emoji, including skin tone modified versions.Other Improvements. Improved Calendar input allowing to specify alarms at the time of the event. New Features and Improvements.
Added “Preferred Input Source” preference option, allowing to choose a keyboard input source that will be used in favor of the currently active input source while LaunchBar is active. Improved compatibility with macOS Sierra (10.12).Bug Fixes.
Fixed an incompatibility with version 2.5. Fixed a bug in the built-in MD5, SHA1, and SHA256 checksum actions causing a wrong checksum being calculated for data larger than 4 GB. Furthermore the performance of these action has been significantly improved for large files. Fixed: The “Browse Ulysses” action did not work on OS X 10.9 and OS X 10.10. Fixed a crash in LaunchBar’s Action Editor.
Fixed an issue causing the “Select Folder” contextual menu action in the Options pane of a folder indexing rule to stop working under some circumstances. Fixed a potential crash in the Clipboard History when copying RTF or RTFD data (happened in particular when copying data in Accordance.app).
Improved character icons for custom actions. LaunchBar Actions and their result items that use a character as an icon using the previously introduced syntax can now specify the font in which the character should be rendered using a pseudo-URL-query like syntax or the property (result items only).
Example: character:X?font=Futura. For characters that cannot be rendered in the system font LaunchBar now uses a fallback mechanism to find an appropriate font.Bug Fixes. Fixed a potential crash when an action returned a result item that had a path and icon set. Fixed an issue on OS X 10.9 causing the index window to fail opening the Options pane of some indexing rules. Fixed: Sorting by “date added” by pressing Shift-Command-Right didn’t work anymore.
This also affected browsing the Downloads folder, which sorts by “date added” automatically. Fixed a crash when editing the “Skip Subfolders” or “Exclude Items” options of a folder indexing rule. Added support for Emoji, icons, and arbitrary characters as icons for LaunchBar Actions and their result items. More information is available in our. Added and functions to LaunchBar JavaScript. New LaunchBar AppleScript property “expects abbreviation input”. Added support.
Restored the previous behavior of ⌘V to paste clipboard data onto LaunchBar. Added “Drop From Clipboard” action (⌥⌘V).
New Features. Added optional Modifier Tap for accessing Snippets. Can be configured in Preferences Shortcuts. The iCloud Drive item can now be used as a target for Send To operations. Info Browsing of images in the Clipboard History now shows metadata like image dimensions, resolution, color profile, etc. Back browsing with the Left-Arrow key after invoking an action that returns new items now brings back the previous selection – either the action itself (if it was opened via Return or via Text Input), or the source item of a Send To operation (the item that was sent to the action via Tab).
Improved Send To (pressing Tab) in Calculator. If there’s no text selected (i.e. The cursor is blinking), the result of the current calculation is sent, as before. Support for OS X El Capitan. Added two new El Capitan themes that use of the new system font. Recent document indexing is finally reliable again, but only when running on OS X El Capitan.Other Improvements.
Added diversity options for emojis. New Features.
LaunchBar now includes a new Action Editor, making it easier than ever to create incredible actions. Start developing with script templates, configure your action’s runtime behavior, manage localizations and more. Find a detailed feature list.
“New Folder with Selection” action for multiple selections. The action can be triggered via Shortcut (Control-Command-N) and it’s also accessible via Send-To.
Shared Snippets: You can now select one or more additional snippets folders. Especially useful when synced via cloud services to share certain snippets with other computers, co-workers or friends. Improved Tags supportWe’ve improved our support for Finder tags, allowing you to better work with multiple tags. You can search for files that have multiple tags set, and you can apply multiple tags (add, remove or replace them) in one go. To select multiple tags, you can use. Sending one or more files to the Add/Remove/Replace Tags actions presents a list of all available tags (as it did before), but you can now select multiple tags from that list. Items can now be sent to multiple tags to add, remove or replace all existing tags in one go.
When multiple tags are selected in LaunchBar, pressing Return now presents a list of items that have all these tags set. To search for these multi-tagged items in Finder instead, you can press Command-Return.
The tags of an item, that are shown during Info Browsing (by pressing Option-Right) can now be removed conveniently just by pressing Command-Delete. This also works for multiple tags. Fixed some tag indexing issues: Items with multiple tags or with legacy color labels were not properly indexed under some circumstances.Multiple Selection DraggingWell, we announced this feature already in our 6.2 release notes. But due to an embarrassing mistake in our build process, the feature was not enabled in the released version.
But now it finally works and you can drag multiple items from LaunchBar to other applications! Other Improvements. Added “Detect Search Templates” bookmarks indexing option.
This restores the previous behavior of the bookmarks indexer to automatically detect search templates (URLs containing an asterisk) in your web browser’s bookmarks. If you rather want these URLs to be indexed as regular bookmarks, you can turn off this option. Added “Instant Calculate” option to Calculator preferences. When you Instant-Send an arithmetic expression to LaunchBar, it automatically calculates and shows the result. When you send a plain number, it’s automatically opened in LaunchBar’s calculator. With this new option you can turn off this behavior, if you prefer to just send the text without any calculator magic. The dict.cc action now performs its queries via https.
Fixed: The “Move to Trash” action didn’t work for multiple items in conjunction with Path Finder. Improved display of action result items. New Features and Improvements. Staging: Multiple items in the result list can now also be selected by dragging with the mouse. Multiple selections (i.e. Improvements & Bug Fixes. List navigation with vi/Emacs shortcuts (Control-N, Control-P, Control-I, Control-J, Control-K) now also works during text input.
To prevent conflicts with Emacs shortcuts, the “vi” arrow keys (Control-H/J/K/L) can now be turned off completely in LaunchBar Preferences Shortcuts. Fixed: Browsing with Control-L didn’t work. Info Browsing by pressing and holding the right arrow key is now turned off by default. It can be turned on via LaunchBar Preferences Shortcuts Instant Info Browsing.
Improved application indexing to better exclude certain irrelevant apps inside the Xcode.app file package. Improved Calculator history browsing (select LaunchBar’s Calculator, then press right arrow). Opening a history item with ↩ opens the result in Calculator (same as before). General.
Info Browsing can now be triggered by pressing and holding the right arrow key. General. NEW Staging Area for creating multiple selections (see below for details).
Changed keyboard shortcuts for Info Browsing from ⇧→ to ⌥→ and “Show Siblings” from ⇧← to ⌥←. New Features. The “Enter Color” action now supports (in honor of ).
Added support for Safari History indexing on OS X Yosemite. Added “Encode to Base64” and “Decode as Base64” string transformation actions.
⌥-Escape can now be used to end sub-search without closing the item list. The Small theme is now attached to the menu bar by default.
NEW Brand-new User Interface with Themes. Larger default interface. Several built-in alternative themes. Theme switching via abbreviation search. Plenty of new, beautifully designed icons. New app iconNEW Improved Configuration Interface. Streamlined configuration UI.
Rules in the sidebar are now organized in groups. Configuration changes are now saved automatically. Index updates now happen fully automatically. The Schedule pane for configuring index updates is therefore no longer necessary. Deleting/adding rules is now the recommended way to select the desired set of features.
If you’re an iPhone 3GS or iPod touch 4G user and have upgraded to iOS 6.1.6, which was released recently to fix a critical SSL bug then the good news is that it is still possible to perform an untethered jailbreak on your iOS device using a combination of Redsn0w and p0sixspwn.
In this article we show you how to jailbreak iOS 6.1.6 first using Redsn0w, and then converting it into an untethered jailbreak using p0sixspwn Cydia package.
Update (June 17): Please note a new version of p0sixspwn has been released which adds support for iOS 6.1.1, so you can use p0sixspwn directly to perform the untethered jailbreak on your device running iOS 6.1.6, instead of using this workaround. You can check out our step-by-step guide on how to jailbreak iOS 6.1.6 using p0sixspwn. If you’ve any problem with that method then you can use this workaround.
Here are some important points to note before you proceed.
You can follow these step-by-step instructions to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4G on iOS 6.1.6:
Step 1: Download Redsn0w 0.9.15b3 (Redsn0w 0.9.15 beta 3) from this link and save the application in a folder named “Redsn0w” on your desktop.
Step 2: Download iOS 6.0 firmware file (yes, the trick is to point Redsn0w to the iOS 6.0 firmware file and NOT iOS 6.1.6 firmware file) for your iOS device from the links mentioned below:
Step 2: Connect your device to the computer and double click the Redsn0w zip file and extract the application.Navigate to the Redsn0w folder and launch the Redsn0w application.
Windows 7 users should run the exe in Windows XP compatibility mode (right-click on the Redsn0w exe and select Properties, then select the Compatibility tab and select Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP). Windows XP and Windows 7 users should run Redsn0w as ‘Administrator’ (right-click on the Redsn0w exe and select ‘Run as an Administrator’).
Step 3: Click on Extras button.
Step 4: Then click on the Select IPSW button. Navigate and select the firmware file download in Step 2. It should successfully identify it and inform you that it will be used in the rest of the session.
Step 5: Go back to Redsn0w’s main page and click on the Jailbreak button.
Step 6: Redsn0w will now start preparing the jailbreak data.
Step 7: You will now be prompted to select the jailbreak options. Make sure Cydia is selected and click on the Next button to continue. You can also select Enable battery percentage option.
Step 8: You will now be prompted to put your iOS device into the DFU mode. Turn off your device, however keep it plugged in to the computer.
Step 9: Click on the Next button. Redsn0w will take you through the necessary steps:
(a) Hold the Power button on your iOS device down for 3 seconds:
(b) Now simultaneously hold the Home button and keep the two buttons pressed for 10 seconds:
(c) Now release the Power button while keeping the Home button pressed until Redsn0w detects the device:
Note: Check this tutorial if you’re having trouble putting your device in DFU mode.
Step 10: Your iOS device should reboot now. Please remember to release the Home button.
Step 11: Your iOS device will reboot again and Redsn0w will now begin uploading the new RAM disk and kernel.
Step 12: You will be notified once the jailbreaking process is complete. Click on the Quit button to exit the application.
Step 13: The rest of the process will take place on your iOS device, wait for it to complete. Your iOS device will reboot once again (which could take approximately 5 minutes). You will now see the Home screen on your iOS device, but Cydia would still be missing, that’s because you still need to tether boot your iOS device using Redsn0w. So follow the steps mentioned below.
Boot tethered:
Step 14: Launch Redsn0w again.
Step 15: Click on Extras button.
Step 16: Then click on the Select IPSW button. Navigate and select the firmware file downloaded in Step 2.
Step 17: Then click on the Just Boot button.
Step 18: You will now be prompted to plug your iOS device to the computer and switch it OFF again. Follow the instructions and click on the Next button to move to the next screen:
Step 19: You will now need to put your iOS device into the DFU mode. Redsn0w will take you through the necessary steps:
(a) Hold the Power button on your iOS device down for 3 seconds:
(b) Now simultaneously hold the Home button and keep the two buttons pressed for 10 seconds:
(c) Now release the Power button while keeping the Home button pressed until Redsn0w detects the device:
Step 20: Redsn0w will recognize the iOS device in DFU mode and apply the limerain exploit (remember to release the Home button). Your iOS device will reboot and a pineapple logo will appear, indicating a tethered boot.
Step 21: Wait for the process to complete, once it is complete, you should see the Lock screen on your iOS device.
Your iPhone or iPod touch has now been successfully jailbroken and you should see Cydia on the Home screen. If you don’t find it on the Home screen, please don’t panic, search for it using Spotlight. The jailbreak is currently a “tethered” jailbreak,
Convert Tethered Jailbreak to Untethered Jailbreak using P0sixspwn:
Step 22: Launch Cydia. Since you’re launching Cydia for the first time, you may be prompted to do an essential upgrade. Please go ahead and do it, and then relaunch Cydia again.
Step 23: Tap on the Search tab, and search for p0sixspwn.
Step 24: Tap on p0sixspwn from the search results, tap on Install, followed by the Confirm button.
Step 25: Tap on Return to Cydia when prompted.
That’s it, your iOS device has now been successfully (untethered) jailbroken.
Troubleshooting Tips:
1. Can’t find Cydia:
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If you can’t find Cydia on the home screen then double check you have tethered boot your device. Please ensure you’ve followed steps 14 to 21.
2. Unsupported IPSW:
If you get an error message informing you that the IPSW is not supported by this version of Redsn0w, then it means you’ve downloaded iOS 6.1.3 firmware file in step 2 instead of iOS 6.0 firmware file. Please download iOS 6.0 firmware file to jailbreak your iOS device running on iOS 6.1.3.
3. Cydia closes immediately:
If Cydia closes immediately when you try to launch it, it means that you haven’t installed p0sixspwn package from Cydia. Follow steps 22-24 mentioned above to solve this issue.
Related topics:
Please don’t forget to checkout our article on tips to keep your iOS device secure.
If you’re new to the jailbreaking world and wondering what to do after jailbreaking your iOS device, checkout our jailbreak apps category page to find out the apps you can install on your iOS device using the Cydia app.
Hope this helped. Please don’t forget to let us know how it goes in the comments and if you hit any issues start a thread in our forums for help.
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