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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 65:
- FIX: Honour 'jump to action' preference when grabbing objects using the 'Get Selection' service #643
- FIX: Disable editing of tab names in Plugin Preference pane #644
- FIX: Resolve proxy objects consistently #652 #621
- FIX: Make 3rd pane visible for AppleScript actions that expect a file #661 #603
- FIX: 'Show Entry in Catalog' action only shows for objects in the catalog #678
- CHANGE: Allow non-admin users to set the dock icon preference #690 #686 #689
- CHANGE: Only allow disabling of the Catalog (by holding ⌥ on luanch) in Debug builds
- CHANGE: When using the Move To.../Copy To... actions display the file's parent folder in the 3rd pane #665
- CHANGE: Allow Quicksilver to set URLs as 'remote host' types #497
- CHANGE: Development settings and CHANGELOG creation method #599 #658
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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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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Xe89 reviewed on 02 Feb 2012
http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/25/2731535/ubuntu-hud-12-04-menu
and I thought, I've used Quicksilver and the UI Access plugin since 2009, and already then the plugin was three years old I think...
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Sigs reviewed on 09 Jan 2012
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Phubai reviewed on 13 Dec 2011
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Kzx72 reviewed on 11 Dec 2011
The options for this thing are limitless and I'm always finding new ways to use QS that I didn't even think were possible. Will make a donation as an appreciation for the service.
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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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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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tillkruess rated on 06 Jan 2012
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Swordfish rated on 22 Nov 2011
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Aacuna4560 rated on 10 Nov 2011
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Libin Pan rated on 26 Oct 2011
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Fabien Conus rated on 24 Oct 2011