quicksilver & qurl
quicksilver is a cool application for the mac like no other. it’s an application launcher… and so much more. it’s philosophy is “wei wu wei”, or act without doing, and allows you to use your keyboard to do… well, just about anything.
for the longest time, i’d been only using it for the most basic of things, usually launching apps. recently however, i started using twitter, and then also heard from rjtaylor that you can tweet right from quicksilver. my beef with twitter before was that i always needed to open up twitterific to send my tweets, which was kind of tiresome. now, with the new quicksilver action, hooked up to a trigger, a tweet is just a ctrl-opt-cmd-t away!
having this new trigger has opened a whole a new world, and i’ve now created two more:
- search google (i’m using ctrl-opt-cmd-G)
- shortened URLs using qurl (ctrl-opt-cmd-L)
you can learn more at the quicksilver tutorial page.
if you use a mac, and you don’t use quicksilver, you are seriously missing out.
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andy
what’s a “mac”? Is that one of those things that artist use in coffee shops to do graphic design and blog about their favorite fonts? (mine is helvetica).
Jun 6th, 2008
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