Alfred Powerpack

Alfred is an award-winning productivity application for Mac OS X that adds powerful functionality to OS X operating system through the use of user-friendly and easily-customized apple scripts, workflows, “hotkey” and keyword triggers, and file actions right that sit right at your fingertips. No technical training required. There is a huge user and developer community that make it one of the most open and collaborative tools available. This is not a tool you would use with your class, it’s a tool they won’t be able to live without once they get a hold of it. There is no direct pedagogical effectiveness, but you will see a bump in your ability to get (task-intensive) things done–fast!