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Quicksilver a waste of time now?
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For me, the fact that I can select a document then invoke QS, type "CUR" to indicate the current selection, type "Mail", then type name, name, name and email the document to all the "names" is a huge feature for me. You'll have to pry QS from my cold, dead hands...
i totally agree, there's no way i could live without it. When i am helping out someone on their mac i try to use it and then when i realize they don't have it, i feel disappointed.
I installed it, but for my needs I saw little reason to keep it around, especially if it was going to use up disk space with its own cache.
I can see how it'd be useful to many people, but I rarely send email attachments or FTP files somewhere or any of the other file management tasks that QS seems to be good for. Someone mentioned opening URLs, but I have the browser open at all times anyway, and Firefox's AwesomeBar already navigates my bookmarks and history with ease.
All I want is an app launcher, and Spotlight is more than adequate.
I can see how it'd be useful to many people, but I rarely send email attachments or FTP files somewhere or any of the other file management tasks that QS seems to be good for. Someone mentioned opening URLs, but I have the browser open at all times anyway, and Firefox's AwesomeBar already navigates my bookmarks and history with ease.
All I want is an app launcher, and Spotlight is more than adequate.
For those who somehow still don't get Quicksilver, try reading these posts. It might take all of 15 minutes but after that hopefully you'll "get" Quicksilver.
http://lifehacker.com/software/quicksilver/hack-attack-a-beginners-guide-to-quicksilver-247129.php
http://lifehacker.com/software/quic...-slashes-appends-and-proxies-oh-my-249085.php
http://lifehacker.com/software/quicksilver/hack-attack-the-quicksilver-video-extravaganza-250949.php
Spotlight in Leopard is great as just an app launcher (although I've found QS to be faster even for that), but QS is so much more. It makes moving files around and doing things very easy and fast with the keyboard. I wish Apple would just go ahead and integrate it somehow. Now that the original coder is working on a brand new QS concept, I'm hoping someone takes off with the current branch as it adds so much to the Mac.
FYI, the builds from the new open source repository crashed for me on Leopard, but the download at Blacktree is working like a champ.
http://lifehacker.com/software/quicksilver/hack-attack-a-beginners-guide-to-quicksilver-247129.php
http://lifehacker.com/software/quic...-slashes-appends-and-proxies-oh-my-249085.php
http://lifehacker.com/software/quicksilver/hack-attack-the-quicksilver-video-extravaganza-250949.php
Spotlight in Leopard is great as just an app launcher (although I've found QS to be faster even for that), but QS is so much more. It makes moving files around and doing things very easy and fast with the keyboard. I wish Apple would just go ahead and integrate it somehow. Now that the original coder is working on a brand new QS concept, I'm hoping someone takes off with the current branch as it adds so much to the Mac.
FYI, the builds from the new open source repository crashed for me on Leopard, but the download at Blacktree is working like a champ.