The Hickensian

25.03.04 Quicksilver for OS X

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Having just read about Quicksilver on What do I know? I did as I was bidden by Todd Dominey and ran to download it, but trying to keep my ‘balanced view’ head on.

Quite simply, I am absolutely stunned. If you have Panther, you need Quicksilver. Truly amazing.

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No.1

∞ Shaun Inman said 2177 days ago:

Rather than pollute the blog pool with my own post on the same topic I'll just second that endorsement here.

Quicksilver's ability to browse your iTunes library and it's history-enabled clipboard are spectacular. I've already put in a request for the next version to include an attached iPod's library in the browse feature. ;D

Quicksilver simply blows LaunchBar out of the water.

No.2

∞ Jon Hicks said 2177 days ago:

Shaun - I know what you mean. I do try to avoid repeating everyone else, its dull to keep read the same subjects.

Having said that - I couldn't help it. QS is just too good! :o)

No.3

∞ Shaun Inman said 2177 days ago:

I'm definitely not faulting you Jon. I was going to do the same until I saw your post!

No.4

∞ Sean Devine said 2177 days ago:

I like LaunchBar a lot, but QuickSilver looks like it could be even better. The UI is very slick - I'm looking forward to playing around with it tomorrow.

No.5

∞ Dom said 2177 days ago:

There are tons of "hidden" (or at least not well advertised) features in QS.
Try to type a quote (") -> you get an editable field. You can send this text field to the pasteboard, but also to a service like AppendNote ( http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11537 ). This is awsome.
Did you notice that the window in Bezel view is actually a split view ?

No.6

∞ Gabriel Radic said 2177 days ago:

There's also Buttler (fka Another Launcher).
www.petermaurer.de/butler

It can be customised and the result is very clean and powerful. So far I'm not impressed with QS.

No.7

∞ p said 2176 days ago:

ha, at first i thought you were talking about the neil stephenson book (book #1 in the baroque cycle), and i was wondering why it was available to download from a software company's website...