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Use Quicksilver to look up words
We here at TUAW are in love with Quicksilver. If it were legal for a man to marry a piece of software I do believe that Quicksilver would be on the receiving end of my advances (and hopefully it won't have a copy of Textpander or that could get awkward).Quicksilver can seem like magic to some, and it does have a very steep learning curve, so any tutorial that I come across which explains how to use this program to accomplish a task is of interest.
Tim explains to us how to use Quicksilver to find definitions in Tiger's Dictionary.app (another favorite application of mine, but I wouldn't want to marry it. We're just friends). If you don't have Quicksilver you should download it and give this tutorial a whirl, it'll hook you.
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weave73 said 5:07PM on 8-23-2005
i still think that butler is better and easier to use . . .
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nonjo said 6:12PM on 8-23-2005
Merlin Mann over at 43 Folders has a lot of links to tutorials using QS.
http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Quicksilver
It is a great launcher and utility that just gets deeper and deeper. There is already a plugin that uses dict.org, but this is a welcome edition.
This is quite possibly one of the coolest tricks I've come across yet.
http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/quicksilver_app.html
And to think I thought it was just another Launchbar...
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Marc James said 11:19PM on 8-23-2005
Other than price, how is QS better than Launchbar? LB uses half the memory that QS uses for me, so I am sticking with it.
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Kris Browne said 3:18PM on 8-29-2005
Quicksilver is like the concept of Unix pipes and redirects on GUI crack.
Take a file, or the output of something, do something to it, which could be as simple as launching it, but could be any service, running it through various programs, etc... And possibly take whatever you just did and add more steps.
For people who are used to thinking in documents or programs like Windows and Classic Mac OS do, it's hard to wrap your head around.. For people who are used to thinking in Streams of data, like Unix's pipe/redirects and Next/OS X's Services, QS is pure bliss.
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