Quicksilver Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

IconGrabber: easy icon extraction

by Mat Lu (Nov 27th, 2007)

This one is a little bit of inside (blogging) baseball, but I know a lot of our readers blog themselves and so might find this tip handy. Ankur Kothari (whose Quicksilver customizations we've mentioned before) has cooked up an excellent little Quicksilver plugin called IconGrabber that does exactly ...

Quicksilver goes Open Source

by Mat Lu (Nov 6th, 2007)

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 as a Google Code project. While Quicksilver has ...

Quicksilver b53 for Leopard

by Mat Lu (Oct 31st, 2007)

Many folks have noticed over the last few days that TUAW favorite Quicksilver had disappeared from the net. Fortunately, Blacktree's servers are now back up and beta 53 (build 3814) of Quicksilver is available for download (download link). The new version is primarily a bugfix release, but is ...

GTD with Launchbar and scripts

by Mike Schramm (Oct 12th, 2007)

Saul Rosenbaum sent us the tip on this one, and he points out that we're a little "Quicksilver centric" around here at TUAW. He's right, we do love Quicksilver, but it's not the only launcher on the block. Launchbar is another good one (and actually, I've been playing with Sapiens a lot lately, so ...

Replace the Finder with Quicksilver

by Scott McNulty (Oct 11th, 2007)

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 obvious step and replaced the Finder with ...

Found Footage: Quicksilver in real life

by Mike Schramm (Sep 24th, 2007)

When I posted about Mac apps in real life a while back, the number one request I heard in the comments was for Quicksilver. And it wasn't very surprising-- who wouldn't love to implement Quicksilver's genius and simplicity in some way for the real world? And now, Matt McInerney's done it-- he's ...

Found Footage: Quicksilver Google Tech Talk

by Scott McNulty (Sep 6th, 2007)

We here at TUAW are big fans of Quicksilver, the inscrutable OS X utility that you really have to use to understand (and even then some folks still don't get it). The developer of Quicksilver, Nicholas Jitkoff, recently gave a Tech Talk at his employer (some search company or another) in which he ...

Ask TUAW: Windows Printing, AutoFill, FireWire HDs, MacBook power adapters and more

by Mat Lu (Aug 29th, 2007)

It's time again for Ask TUAW, our weekly feature where you ask the questions and we make up the answers... er, I mean carefully research and determine the optimal solution. This week we'll be tackling questions about printing from OS X to a printer connected to a Windows box, AutoFill in Safari, ...

MoodSwing multi-status utility: Now in convenient menubar dosage

by David Chartier (Aug 20th, 2007)

Attention all ye users of Adium, Skype, iChat, Twitter, Facebook and Jaiku - Brett Terpstra has struck again with MoodSwing, his excellent utility for updating your status across all these apps and services. Why do I call it a utility instead of just a Quicksilver action, you ask? Because Brett ...

MoodSwing Quicksilver action simultaneously updates your iChat, Skype, Twitter and Adium status

by David Chartier (Aug 10th, 2007)

If you are a text, audio and video chatter, chances are you have some combination of iChat, Skype, Adium and a Twitter client running throughout the day. It's also possible that you're a Quicksilver junkie, which means you might appreciate Brett Terpstra's new Quicksilver script that will let you ...

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 ...

LaunchBar 4.3 adds Instant Open / Send and more

by Mat Lu (Aug 1st, 2007)

I'm a devoted Quicksilver man myself, but the venerable LaunchBar seems to have started the whole keyboard launcher trend and retains many committed fans. Just updated to version 4.3, Objective Development has added a number of new features. In particular, Instant Open allows you to execute a ...

Faster printing through Quicksilver or a simple drag and drop

by David Chartier (Jul 23rd, 2007)

At TUAW HQ we absolutely love Quicksilver, the powerful, incredibly extensible and indispensable productivity tool, as it's capable of speeding up just about any conceivable operation on your Mac. Still, with everything Quicksilver is capable of, I honestly never thought it could be used to help ...

An AppleScript for selecting the iChat menubar item

by David Chartier (Jul 11th, 2007)

I understand if this might sound kinda weird, but hear me out: As an iChat user, I love the flexibility of its UI and the clever menubar item that displays all available contacts. Since I've found myself flying without displaying the buddy list more and more often lately, I've been wishing for a way ...

Write your own Quicksilver interface

by Mat Lu (Jun 18th, 2007)

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 some code explanations. Unfortunately I'm nowhere ...