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Replace the Finder with Quicksilver
Our love of Quicksilver, the sometimes inscrutable application launcher (and much more) runs deep, but Daniel over at waferbaby has us beat. It would seem Daniel isn't a big fan of the Finder and he is crazy for Quicksilver. Clearly, it took the next ...
How To: Stikkit Plugin for Quicksilver
A while back we posted on a nice AppleScript and service for the online organizational service Stikkit, usable with Quicksilver. However, according to the Stikkit blog, Merlin Mann has now talked Alcor, the author of Quicksilver, into writing an ...
Showcase Quicksilver interface
A reader tipped us off to this very cool new interface for Quicksilver called Showcase from Julius Eckert. It's basically pure eye-candy, but what eye-candy it is! Taking its cue from Cover Flow it leverages Leopards Core Animation technologies to, ...
Quicksilver goes Open Source
Long time readers know that we at TUAW love Quicksilver, the brilliant keyboard launcher application from Blacktree. Now after previously making promises to that effect, the developer (who likes to go by Alcor) has released the source for Quicksilver ...
Getting started with Quicksilver: understanding the basics
Prompted by a TUAW reader comment on my post the other day about some Quicksilver
fundamentals, I thought I would take a crack at posting some short tutorials on what Quicksilver actually does, and
how to get started with it. I'm talking about the ...
Fumo Quicksilver Interface: smokin'
Okay, I'm perfectly willing to concede that, practically speaking, this is utterly pointless; nonetheless, it's pretty dang cool. Ankur Kothari (whom we've featured a couple of times before) is working on a new interface for TUAW favorite ...
Bezel HUD Quicksilver interface for Leopard
I've been looking for something like this since Leopard was released. As you can see from the video above, Juius Eckert (whose Showcase Quicksilver interface we covered previously) has now released a Bezel HUD interface for Quicksilver that ...
Write your own Quicksilver interface
We've mentioned several of Ankur Kothari's interesting Quicksilver projects. Now he's back with a kind of do-it-yourself SDK and tutorial on building your own Quicksilver interface. He offers an Xcode Project Template to get your started, along with ...
Roll Your Own Quicksilver Plugin
Regular readers know we here at TUAW love Quicksilver. Indeed, I think it is my single favorite application (and that it remains free is just mind-boggling to me). Anyway, despite a ton of built-in functionality and plethora of plugins to add more, ...
QuickPack: Quicksilver plus Backpack
Author Nils Werkmeister (great name!) writes in to tell us about his QuickPack, a Quicksilver Action that makes it very easy to add entries to a page on 37Signals' Backpack online organizational tool. We've mentioned a number of Backpack tools in ...
Quicksilver basics: shake hands with your preferences
Yesterday Quicksilver started acting a little goofy, and I wasn't surprised; I have just about every beta and
extra turned on as I just can't stop exploring all the neat stuff this app can do. During my troubleshooting efforts I
resorted to the ...
Quicksilver plug-ins for Google Calendar and Gmail
While tinkering in Quicksilver's plug-ins panel this
morning I came across two new plug-ins that should fit right in with my new Borg Google-infused daily
activities: a Gmail Module and a Google Calendar Module. Both are actions that allow you to ...
Quicksilver Tip for Switchers: Make New File
I'm told that one of things Switchers miss when they come over from the dark side is the ability to create new files simply by right-clicking and choosing a type from the "New" submenu in Windows Explorer (their Finder equivalent). For those people, ...
Quicksilver and Spotlight
I have been using Blacktree's Quicksilver since I first heard of it many months ago. At its most basic, Quicksilver is an application launcher of sorts for Mac OS X. Upon its initial launch it creates a catalog of your drive. You can then launch ...
Quicksilver pre-release version with mini-tutorial goodness
This morning Quicksilver notified me that a new version
was available. Since I love living on the bleeding edge of application launching and file manipulation, I went ahead
and updated. While I can hold my own fairly well with Quicksilver's ...
