hawkscope

cross-platform pluggable menu based launcher

Hawkscope

Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray / menubar icon with dynamic pop-up menu.

Main features

  • Completely Free and Open Source
  • Cross platform, runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
  • Navigation through hard drive contents via dynamic popup menu
  • System wide global hotkey for invoking menu right under mouse location (on Windows and Linux only)
  • Configurable favourite locations for quick access
  • Hide unwanted drives, folders or files by adding them to blacklist
  • Plugin system

Features provided by Plugins

  • Open With plugin: Choose your preferred applications
  • Gmail Checker plugin: Shows unread items from your Gmail inbox
  • Delicious plugin: Instant access your delicious.com bookmarks
  • Twitter plugin: Twitter client for Hawkscope
  • Execute plugin: Execute system commands
  • Googlescope plugin: Google search integration

Screenshots

Mac OS X

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nP8Aa6cTHpo/Sdc2NukoLRI/AAAAAAAABh4/eaZE1GkLjrM/s720/hs6.mac.png

Windows

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Linux (Gnome)

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nP8Aa6cTHpo/Sdc2N8yXdII/AAAAAAAABiA/qHH_7nlZO2c/s720/hs6.ubuntu.png

Donate

If you like Hawkscope, you can support the development by donating a small amount of money.

Project Information

  • License: GNU GPL v3
  • 67 stars
  • svn-based source control

Labels:
productivity navigator filesystem tray explorer java linux windows mac twitter launcher macosx menubar plugable cross-platform