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It's Alfred's 9th Birthday: Thank You to Our Community Members

Today, we celebrate Alfred's birthday. It's been 9 years since we released the very first version of Alfred into the wild, and received a warm, kind and completely unexpected response!

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It's Alfred's 7th Birthday!

Today marks a very special day for us; It's Alfred's birthday!

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Beginner's Guide to Alfred: Searching your Mac and the Web

Got a friend or family member who's new to Mac? If you've been looking for an introduction to Alfred, this is the perfect "Alfred 101 Guide"!

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You Can Count on Alfred's Calculator

Alfred's calculator is conveniently easy to access; Just pop up the search box and start typing your calculation.

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Persisting Alfred's Preferences

Find out how to ensure Alfred can correctly save his preferences to file if you're having issues.

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Alfred's Best Features for the Independent Business Owner

Running a business involves so many different responsibilities; How can Alfred help you simplify your everyday tasks?

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The Tools We Use: CacheFly's content distribution network

We're often asked what tools we use everyday for creating and managing Alfred: Here's why we use CacheFly as CDN.

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A Starter Guide to Alfred's Powerpack Features

If you're new to the Powerpack features, this is a perfect starter guide to help you discover the wealth of features you now have access to.

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Viewing a File's Metadata

Here's how you can take a look at the metadata for a file to find out what it contains. This can help you establish why a file isn't appearing in your Alfred results.

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10 Great Uses for Alfred's Hotkeys

Kick your keyboard control into high gear. Take a look at how you can improve your workday by adopting these ten tricks and creating a few handy hotkeys of your own.

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How You Use Alfred: Mattias Arrelid, Spotify's Director of SDK

Mattias Arrelid, Director of the Spotify SDK, shares how he uses Alfred while working on the latest version of Spotify.

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Enhance Your Vocabulary with Alfred's Dictionary Keywords

Did you know that Alfred's Dictionary feature includes two keywords to help you broaden your vocabulary when writing?

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Searching Alfred's Preferences

In Alfred 4, we've added a ubiquitous preferences search to make it easier for you to get to the preferences you want to view or edit.

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Testing Alfred 3 Using Alfred's Own Workflows

We've created workflows to unit test Alfred 3 ahead of release; See how flexible workflows are becoming in v3.

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Removing node_modules files from Alfred's results

To reliably ignore node_modules files, they should be added to Spotlight Privacy.

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Alfred Ready for Apple's M1 Chip

We've been running a Universal build of Alfred on the Apple DTK using macOS Big Sur for some time now, and the performance of Alfred running natively on the Apple M1 chip is remarkable.

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Learn to Create Workflows with Alfred's Built-In Examples

Did you know that there are dozens of workflow examples and templates built into Alfred to help you get started and learn how to create your own?

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Script Filter XML Format

The XML Output format specification to populate Alfred's results from the Script Filter

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Script Filter JSON Format

The JSON Output format specification to populate Alfred's results from the Script Filter

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Snippets and Text Expansion Troubleshooting

If you're having issues with snippet auto-expansion using Alfred, take a look

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