Spotlight forgotten? Use it as an Application launcher
A major advancement of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was the rapid search feature dubbed Spotlight. Once upon a time it was seen as the ultimate way to access files without browsing through folders and folders but a few years on are you actually using it like this? If you really don’t use Spotlight all that often why not turn it into an application launcher?
Hitting command+space brings up the search box where you can start to type the application’s name and hit enter when you’re happy with the result. iUseApple.com even suggests enhancing Spotlight’s results to display only applications by configuring it via System Preferences.