… is QuickSilver. It’s just UNBELIEVABLE.
Just a few hours I spend investigating QuickSilver and it actually saves me a lot of time doing boring tasks with mouse-juggeling and so on. Still being a QS newbie, I can talk about the cool features I already investigated. At first, QS is Plugin aware. There are plugins for all and every program in the Mac-world - so most of them can be used in automation tasks.
If you’ve opened up the website of QS, you might have seen a ql layout and a nice looking page, but maybe not know what the hell QuickSilver will do for you.
At theappleblog you will find some interesting screencasts with the functionality of QS - but here is my short abbrev. about the features I use:
- QuickSilver is a launcher. So you’re pressing a command shortcut and it will open. Per default this is “alt + space”. Then you can type any word-combinations like “itu” and QuickSilver will find any “catalog item” containing this letters. This can be “itunes” as application as well as “My Itunes Directory with a lot of mp3s in there”. Then you can press Tab or “arrow right” to decide a command for the found item. This can be “open” or “browse artists” or “copy to clipboard”. A lot of commands are stackable, so you can do this: “Find a file on the desktop, select it and send it per EMail to Dirk”.
- “Find a directory, open one file in there with a specific application”
- “Select a song in Itunes by searching by artist and play it”
- “open a pdf, print it, afterwords delete the pdf file”
And the best of all, this are so short commands, all of them above are done in less then 3 seconds!!!
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