Software Pick: Quicksilver
Name: Quicksilver
Price: FREE
Website: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
Platform: Mac
When I first heard about Quicksilver I wasn’t quite sure what it was exactly. I had heard it mentioned several times on MacBreak Weekly, and all I seemed t be able to gleam from it that it was an app launcher - which it is but it does so much more than that.
I first downloaded it o see what it was all about, and at first found it quite hard to use and kept forgetting about it. So after a few days I decided to more or less completely get rid of my dock and use Quicksilver to launch my applications.
Quicksilver’s window is not like any normally app, it runs in the background and you only see it when you need it. To get it to appear you have to set a command for me I do ctrl-
Q. Which brings up the window, I then start to type what I’m looking for. Lets say Firefox -so I type FIRE and and then when it hits upon Firefox I press enter which launches it.
But you can also hit tab which brings up more commands that you can do with the application. Such as Quit, relaunch, move to etc… You can also download plugin for Quicksilver, the two that I use the most is the iTunes and the Mail plugins. With the iTunes one I can search through artists, albums etc and play and pause music without having to stop what I am currently doing.
Quicksilver has decreed the mount of time it takes me to do more or less everything on my mac. I highly recommend it!
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Nice post. I just got my MacBook Pro two days ago, my first mac
And I’m using the dock for App launching, or spotlight if I don’t have it in the dock. Thanks for this tip on a different way, I will look into it when I’m more comfortable with OSX.
Charlie -
August 26th, 2007 at 11:42 amjonno ! Congrat for the very good post
I don’t have a “normal” mac now (only old powermac), so the use of quicksilver is not very interesting (and it’s not the only one…)
I’m really surprised that such a programm that uses intensively the keyboard has so much success in a 100% graphical user interface that OSX is.
Short cut are a very handy wy the start “faster” a program than using point & click, however some tests have been made showing that keu shortcut aren’t always the fastest way. So I’m still doubting on the reall effience of quicksilver. But if people like it instead of the mouse.. that’s ok
August 26th, 2007 at 1:39 pmI’ll try quicksilver however once I get a real mac
QuickSilver is one application I can’t live without and it’s always the first thing I install on a new Mac.
August 27th, 2007 at 1:40 am