Cool tip on launching sites (and url shortening) with Alfred! I’ll have to give that a try. This isn’t really an app-launcher tip, but one thing I do as an efficiency “time-saver” is to use Fluid (a site specific browser) for things like Basecamp, Google Reader, Gmail, etc. You could set one up for each web app you use. The nice thing is that each SSB occupies it’s own system processes, so theoretically, if Safari crashes, the Fluid instance won’t crash (although I’ve never had this actually happen). And you can still use Alfred to quickly launch the SSB.