Thursday, December 13, 2007

Interview with Nicholas Jitkoff ( Quicksilver )

Nice interview with Nicholas Jitkoff who wrote Quicksilver. There's a very interesting Google Tech Talk presentation by Nicholas in the article as well.

Quicksilver is one of my favorite Mac applications. It is hard to describe what it does because it can do so much but at the same time stay completely out of your way. It in short acts like a better Spotlight. The plugin system allows you to extend it's functionality to almost search for and do anything you want.

Labels: Apple Mac OS X, Nicholas Jitkoff, Quicksilver

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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Tech: Quicksilver now Open Source!

TUAW.com reports that Quicksilver is now open source. If you haven't tried Quicksilver before, I highly recommend trying it out. Quicksilver is basically does what Spotlight does, but better.

I primarily use Quicksilver to launch programs, but the extremely flexible plugin system and huge list of plugins provide tons of extra feature to Quicksilver. You assign a hotkey to Quicksilver, and after that it allows you to launch a multitude of tasks from just a few key strokes.

MacRumors has a nice guide to the intricacies of using Quicksilver.

Labels: Apple Mac OS X, Free software, Mac Apps, Open Source, Quicksilver

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