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Quicksilver is way more than just a keyboard-driven launcher. Using a noun verb grammatical model, you can do basic search and work effortlessly with applications, data, and the web.
Get Quicksilver here.
Quicksilver on Google Video.
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson the Audible version.
the text on Google.
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The hacker tourist article by Neal Stephenson.
Transatlantic Cable in Wikipedia and another article.
Life Hacker a
Merlin intros and drills into QuickSilver on MacBreak.
Here’s more Merlin talking about commas.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:40 am
[...] latest Macbreak Tech podcast skirted around a few quicksilver basics, and mentioned the possibility of invoking with a [...]
October 16th, 2007 at 10:11 am
I second what the internets has fetched from my blog above - a great show as usual.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
i think this is the link to the neil stephenson article on wired.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Yep that’s the one. The notes had that but I botched it by a character. Thus it didn’t show up.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
how do you get the hotkey yo be a double command tap? you know like tapping the command key twice to invoke… it’s not registering in my quicksilver preferences. help!
October 17th, 2007 at 6:36 am
The defining factor I see with Quicksilver fans seems to be wether you’re a keyboard user, or a mouse user. Granted you use both, but if you interact with your computer primarily from a keyboard centric perspective, then you’re more likely to “get” Quicksilver, than if you’re mouse centric.
I’m more keyboard centric, so I quickly fell in love with Quicksilver and I find that I’m using it more and more the more I use it. However, mouse gestures elude me because I just don’t interact with my computer in that manner.
All that being said, I think you guys did a really nice overview of the program and have great show notes on the subject. Great job!
October 17th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I loved the show guys. I am a huge QS advocate and have been a happy user for a few years now. One bold statement that John made was that the time different between a gesture oriented operator and one who uses quicksilver would be negligible (roughly paraphrased)… that’s all fine and well if we are talking about launching one of the dozen or so apps that sit in the dock at any given time… For me, as a web designer (though I’m sure you can draw a parallel to countless occupations), I use a great many apps and template files, etc, which would render my dock incomprehensible if I were to nest them all within a gestures reach. QS allows me to “summon” any of those apps and docs in a few deft key strokes without actually having to “know” where they actually reside on my drive. No one can manually dig through a hierarchical file system to retrieve these apps and docs in the time it takes me to hit a few keys.
Anyhow, just some food for thought. I really look forward to the next show.
October 20th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I have screencasted several of my favorite quicksilver features on my site which can be found at the below link. Check it out.
http://www.macsparky.com/?page_id=93
October 20th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I have not played with Quicksilver in some time, but use Google Desktop and even Spotlight once in a while as app launchers. Using an iBook as my main machine made me a keyboard believer. Mice are icky. For that matter, so are keyboards. Now that I have my iPhone, can’t stand my Mac (iBook) any more. But if I must use it, keyboard shortcuts are indispensible.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Hmm, Macbreak Tech RSS feed has podcasts attached, when subscribing in mail.app it’s downloading 20MB attachments. Please fix!
November 9th, 2007 at 8:52 am
[...] is a link to their blog where you can take a listen and or [...]