OS X Code (r,s)

Posted on Wednesday 7 September 2005 - Popularity: 5%

The OS X dock is nice and all as long as you only use a few applications. If you’re a real power user with many different applications, some you’re using often, some only from time to time, than the dock just isn’t the best solution anymore. What you need is a specialized application launcher that makes finding your apps fast and user-friendly.

Quicksilver is such an application launcher. It works a bit like Spotlight, you just start typing and Quicksilver quickly comes up with a list of applications that match your search criteria. Additionally Quicksilver shows you some frequently used folders and documents. Now Quicksilver is not only quick, it is smart as well. The application remembers what application you’ve launched after a search and optimizes your future results based on that. As longer you’re using the application, as better the app will work for you. Sweet, but that’s not all:

Quicksilver’s greatest strength, however, is not search. Any item you are able to find, drag, or otherwise pull into its universe is endowed with many potential uses. Hitting takes you to the action field, where you can use the same adaptive search to select what you would like to do. Among other things, files can be emailed, copied, compressed. Text can be modified, transmitted between programs, or searched for on the web. Some actions even support an indirect object, so you can send an item to a person, move files to another folder, or open files with a specific application.

Nice? Definitely! Quicksilver is currently available as a free beta version, but don’t worry, the app will not do anything bad to your system.

Fredi

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