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As part of “free” week this week, I am finding small but useful applications which you can use on your Mac, the main criterion being they are free. Today I have found Namely. It is a very small app which you can use to search for applications you your computer. You can then load this applications. It is similar to the very popular Todos, except this application is more specific in finding the program you want.

Search and Find

Namely is a very simple app. It contains a search box, the search result and the name of the program. It is not an all singing all dancing application launcher. It is a simple app which you can use to search for programs you want and then launch them.

Using the application is very simple (you can’t make using it hard). You type in a couple of key letters from the beginning of the applications you want to use. The list will appear below and you can then click on the desired app and it will run. Very simple. As a result it is incredibly useful. You are not messing about with fancy eye candy effect that you get with Quicksilver or Todos, it is to the point.

There could be a couple of improvements. For example the hotkey to bring the application could work. It may be my computer with so many different programs running on top of each other, but when I press the key command, even after changing it to something unique it fails to appear. This is a slight problem since it reduces the usefulness of the app.

Conclusion

This app is good. It meets it purpose and needs for the end user. There are a couple of bugs but I wasn’t expecting this program to be bug free, it is free. I am only going to rate it 2 and a half stars due to the fact that this program does have a limited scope. There is only so much it can do. Awarding it any higher would not seem right.