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Quicksilver is a light, fast and free Mac application that gives you the power to control your Mac with keystrokes alone.
Quicksilver allows you to find what you need quickly and easily, then act upon these objets as you see fit. All with your fingers on the keyboard. As an example, if you want to find an application hidden in the depths of your file system, simply activate Quicksilver with a keystroke, type a few letters of the application's name, then hit Return or Enter to launch it, or tab and type to find an action such as Quit, Trash, Email To..., Run at Login, Move
Quicksilver allows you to find what you need quickly and easily, then act upon these objets as you see fit. All with your fingers on the keyboard. As an example, if you want to find an application hidden in the depths of your file system, simply activate Quicksilver with a keystroke, type a few letters of the application's name, then hit Return or Enter to launch it, or tab and type to find an action such as Quit, Trash, Email To..., Run at Login, Move
What's New
Version 67:
- NEW: Running applications and processes are monitored in real time (improves use of 'Quit' actions and application proxy objects) (#575)
- NEW: Allow browsing of Quicksilver's objects using ⌘[ and ⌘] (#573)
- NEW: Simplification of preferences and addition of section titles (#788)
- NEW: Icons for preferences items (#788)
- CHANGE: Improve speed of action loading for objects (#340, #782)
- CHANGE: Improve speed of catalog searches (#758, #780, #782)
- FIX: 'Current Selection' proxy object in Sandboxed apps in OS X Lion (#710)
- FIX: Do not prepend 'http://' to URLs copied and pasted to the Quicksilver clipboard (#775, #776)
- FIX: Consistently honour the 'focus action when returning results to Quicksilver' setting (#283, #784)
- FIX: Correctly scan for new plugins when checking for updates (#803)
- FIX: Do not duplicate objects in the catalog when adding them to the object history (#573)
- FIX: Do not lose focus of the selected Quicksilver pane when the results window displays (#325)
- FIX: Odd behaviour when grabbing multiple items from Finder (#753, #755)
- FIX: Correctly resolve wildcards in paths (#633, #713)
- FIX: Get localised names of displays for the 'Displays' module (#789, #790)
- FIX: Crash when getting displays for the 'Displays' module (#789, #790)
- FIX: Correctly restore docked panels when Quicksilver starts (#691, #692)
- FIX: Correctly display multi-line 'Large Type' text (#733)
- FIX: Only scan catalog items once when the rescan entry button is pressed (#765)
- CHANGE: Do not clear the 1st pane object after 10 minutes (#399, #782)
- CHANGE: Improved handling of plugin actions within Quicksilver (#773)
- CHANGE: Removal of deprecated methods and use 10.6+ methods only (#648, #781)
- CHANGE: Make the 'Unsure Quit' dialogue a hidden preference (#788)
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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Quicksilver is a light, fast and free Mac application that gives you the power to control your Mac with keystrokes alone.
Quicksilver allows you to find what you need quickly and easily, then act upon these objets as you see fit. All with your fingers on the keyboard. As an example, if you want to find an application hidden in the depths of your file system, simply activate Quicksilver with a keystroke, type a few letters of the application's name, then hit Return or Enter to launch it, or tab and type to find an action such as Quit, Trash, Email To..., Run at Login, Move To..., Get Info, Reveal, the list goes on.
Quicksilver indexes and parses only selected parts of the contents of your hard drive in the Catalog, which means it locates and displays the items matching your search quickly. Quicksilver has a modular structure which means features for interaction with a whole host of of other applications (iTunes, 1Password, Safari, Microsoft Office) can be done after installing the relevant plugin.
Versions compatible with older OSes are available at http://qsapp.com/download.php
Quicksilver allows you to find what you need quickly and easily, then act upon these objets as you see fit. All with your fingers on the keyboard. As an example, if you want to find an application hidden in the depths of your file system, simply activate Quicksilver with a keystroke, type a few letters of the application's name, then hit Return or Enter to launch it, or tab and type to find an action such as Quit, Trash, Email To..., Run at Login, Move To..., Get Info, Reveal, the list goes on.
Quicksilver indexes and parses only selected parts of the contents of your hard drive in the Catalog, which means it locates and displays the items matching your search quickly. Quicksilver has a modular structure which means features for interaction with a whole host of of other applications (iTunes, 1Password, Safari, Microsoft Office) can be done after installing the relevant plugin.
Versions compatible with older OSes are available at http://qsapp.com/download.php
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But, if you follow the instructions to "Hold" Cmd-Q for just a tiny fraction of a second too long, then you end up quitting your other open apps in sequence until you realize what's going on and lift up your fingers.
It is very difficult to time this properly. It's potentially destructive, depending on which other app you accidentally quit. It's also extremely irritating, not only that now I have to concentrate on timing, but that I even have to take any extra step whatsoever after the first Cmd-Q.
No, it does not suffice to use the mouse to quit QS. The whole point of QS is not needing the mouse for things.
QS crew, I beg of thee to either get rid of this "feature", or provide a preference to disable it, or something to keep the held Cmd-Q from transferring to the next app after QS quits.
(I know this is not the bug report forum, but I can't seem to find how to report bugs without signing up for Yet Another Account Somewhere).
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You can disable this dialogue - there is already a preference to disable it.
See http://qsapp.com/wiki/Hidden_Defaults
Thanks!
Incorvia reviewed on 18 Apr 2012
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Bigboysdad reviewed on 31 Mar 2012
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The problem is, despite uninstalling and reinstalling, QS keeps behaving in this way despite the "show task viewer automatically" box not being ticked. I don’t think its my system, as permissons, caches, disk directory an preferences are well maintained.
I’m not too bothered as I have Launchbar and appreciate that the dedicated QS devs will continue to work through issues like this. It’s my preferred choice over Alfred, for sure.
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Mdognrdog reviewed on 25 Mar 2012
This latest (b66) adds the ability to pop up a Quick Look window for any file (or URL) you enter. This makes it SO much easier to find things, it's just ridiculous (after all, don't almost all of us have a bunch of files with very similar names, where we'd like to figure out which one's which? Regardless of where they are in our directory structures?)
It's simply a bad-ass piece of software. Not perfect, but bad-ass for sure. Oh, and they give it away. So at least TRY Quicksilver for a couple weeks before you BUY a "launcher" program. None of QS's "competitors" offer anything like the power of Quicksilver.
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Ethomp reviewed on 29 Feb 2012
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I use alfred, but still it can't "grab"/"send" files or text to alfred while QS and LB can. That is huge. Alfred can only work on one file, not multiple files, that is huge.
If your needs are simple, alfred is much nicer. If you need real power then go with QS.
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Macguruguy reviewed on 11 Feb 2012
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Psychos reviewed on 03 Feb 2012
I use the terminal heavily, which probably helps as far as not needing Spotlight; I rarely use the Finder, preferring to use the terminal to move files and such for the most part. Combine that with Quicksilver, and hey, I can do almost everything from the keyboard! Yay!
I think my favorite feature (hard to pick, from the thousands...) is the use of triggers to run scripts. I have a few f-key cobos bound to launch various terminals/ssh sessions/etc through the magic of Quicksilver triggers.
For the average user, it's still a great launcher at the VERY least, and I'm guessing most users will get more than that out of it. Even on a pretty recent system with an SSD, I find results pop up faster and better with Quicksilver than with Spotlight... No, it doesn't index random documents as well as Spotlight does, but it's not meant to do that. The two co-exist just fine. :)
The one negative is that for various features, you do need a good bit of advanced configuration. But, hey, it does a ton of stuff even without any advanced config. I've had several friends who used to be primarily GUI-happy but now use Quicksilver at least to launch stuff...and there are far more advanced features than that available, even to the novice. The iTunes, Address Book, etc, plug-ins are all worthwhile.
Oh yeah, and it's free. For one of the very first things I install on any new Mac, I can't complain about that!
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Schmelding reviewed on 02 Feb 2012
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I believe the last PPC version of Quicksilver is B58.
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I LOVE quicksilver and use it all the time - it has changed the way I use my computer (for the better, no question) but this version just will not work for me.
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I hope this can be fixed quickly.
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I'm sticking to it anyway, because I'm just so used to the nice bigger previews of the Bezel UI that I get sick each and every time I try to give similar applications a try...
But it's "hurts", really.
I'd shell a reasonable amount of cash out to have Quicksilver, the kind of "application launchers (extensively speaking)", back to its past glory.
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When Quicksilver activated, it would let the combination keys selected the whole screen area, instead of the particular selected open window. Disable Quicksilver would correct the problem and let the window-only screenshot functioning again.
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and make my computer fan become louder every time I use QS.
in some case it uses most of my RAM, then crashes.
Cataloging my Library folder is still not solved the problem.
So I throw it away.
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Christa_1980 rated on 17 Apr 2012
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CNYMAC315 rated on 17 Apr 2012
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Libin Pan rated on 26 Mar 2012
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THEE:LEE rated on 26 Mar 2012
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Widber rated on 17 Feb 2012
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OsloX rated on 17 Feb 2012
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Libin Pan rated on 06 Feb 2012
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Quiiick rated on 05 Feb 2012
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Widber rated on 02 Feb 2012
tillkruess rated on 06 Jan 2012