Radian: Different Kind of Application Launcher for Netbooks

Radian is a very simple application launcher for your netbook that is radial in look. The user interface is divided into four slices and is activated by continuous right-click. You can configure each slice differently. The right-click trigger resembles the right-click mechanism on many hand-held devices, allowing you to access the menu quickly without needing to scroll to a certain area on your screen. The menu can be loaded by right-clicking and holding anywhere on the screen.

Using Radian you can get things done quicker. Now, instead of digging through folders, or menus, all you have to do is hold and right-click on your screen and access Radian menu. You just need to set it up with your most used applications, and you will improve your efficiency. It’s designed in such a way (remember we told you that you have to hold right-click to access Radian) that it will not interfere with your normal right-click operation.

Radian supports the following modes:

Custom – the slice will contain shortcuts manually dragged from existing shortcuts or files (from the Quick-Launch, Desktop, Start-Menu, Folder, etc.)
Quick Launch – shortcuts from Windows’ Quick-Launch
Desktop – shortcut from Windows’ Desktop
Recent Docs – recently opened documents

Radian is now in its early beta stages, and as it evolves the developer promises to add more features and fix different issues that arises.

Other application launchers that we have covered before and in which you may have interest are: LaunchBar Commander, FARR, Krento, Launchy.

This article, Radian: Different Kind of Application Launcher for Netbooks, was originally published at Netbook Freeware.