Alcor Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Quicksilver appears to be coming back from the dead

by Dana Franklin (Apr 18th, 2011)

Let's take a moment to appreciate the mouse, the marvel of engineering that made computing accessible to the general public. But, if you've ever watched an expert systems administrator rocket through tasks using nothing but the command line and a keyboard, you know the mouse isn't the world's most ...

Quicksilver goes open source with Leopard release

by Mike Schramm (Aug 9th, 2007)

It seems like this news has been around for a while, but we'd never heard it, and it's definitely worth taking a look at. Alcor, developer of Quicksilver, the little launcher that does everything, quietly mentions on the Blacktree forums that Quicksilver will go open source and Leopard only with the ...

Quicksilver alpha builds, B50 Bulldog

by Dan Lurie (Aug 10th, 2006)

HawkWings brings us two quick notes about everyones favorite OS X do-everything app, Quicksilver. According to a thread in the QS forums, contrary to many a users' expectations, setting QS to check for pre-release versions does not get you the very latest bleeding edge super Xtreme sub-alpha builds ...