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Patrick Robertson
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,
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,
What's New
Version 1.1.3:
- Fixed a bug that prevents the results list from appearing on a second display
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.7 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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kingofleon86 reviewed on 23 Mar 2014
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Sleek reviewed on 05 Nov 2013
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Penguirl reviewed on 26 Oct 2013
Probably a great app if it works the way you think, but if you're like me you might want to try something else.
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bobbyloveslions reviewed on 25 Sep 2013
I hate to say it but QS... I love you but... I'm afraid it's time to break up. We've been together for so long but I just cant do it any more. It's not you. It's me.
And to be honest... I've fell in love with another. Alfred 2.0.
It's free... Has more features and is very stable.
I suggest everyone who's having issues with QS give it a try.
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I doubt Alfred has more features than Quicksilver, though workflows in V2+ are starting to get close!
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One really annoying thing that's brand-new to 1.1.0: The font size that gets displayed in the list of possibilities that appears when you start typing... got bigger. Why oh why?
BTW, I'm not seeing any of the memory-hog issues that some other "launching-only" users are seeing. My guess is that those users haven't gone through the preferences and turned off a bunch of stuff. I disabled as many actions and catalog items as I could while still letting it launch apps. If you leave it as it comes from the factory, I think it catalogs nearly your entire file system.
If only Namely.app hadn't been abandoned...
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Also, you don't need the part that searches for every app on the system. Turn that off and just use the one that points at /Applications. If there are other places you keep apps, manually point QS there.
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barzus reviewed on 21 Jun 2013
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Londonskater reviewed on 26 Mar 2013
A great program, the most indispensible program in years. Thanks for all the hard work.
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The team of developers that's been working the project for the last few years has made QS faster, more robust, and fuller-featured.
At its core, QS is a way of grabbing at ideas with snippets of words. First, you think of your sentence's subject: the words might be the name of a file, or a bookmarked URL, or an iTunes track, or an entry in Contacts. Then, you search through QS's list of Actions (your verbs) that you can apply to the subject. Some Actions provide you with a third phase, an object (like, what file do you want to attach to an email, maybe).
Being able to string together commands with this sort of rudimentary syntax is extraordinarily powerful, and doesn't require that the user memorize a lot of hotkeys. (This is also good because a lot of good hotkeys are already taken.) For this reason, I strongly prefer QS to Launchbar, which also can do a lot of things, but which requires that I, in turn, remember all the keystrokes that I've assigned to those things.
If you WANT hotkeys, the sentences you write can be assigned Trigger, and you can treat QS like Launchbar.
Also, it is free. There's no reason not to download it, install it, and give it a try. It won't stop working after 30 days; it won't ever nag you to send a donation to anybody. You can just leave all that power sitting around, waiting to be set loose.
It's great to finally be using a major release after eight years of using betas.
Over the past year or so I've notice that my iMac would start acting so slow and unresponsive that I would have to restart it. I never knew what the issue was until finally I notices in my iStat Menu Bar that QS was taking up a ton of memory but as the computer got more and more unresponsive... the QS memory usage would climb. At one point before it became absolutely unresponsive, the memory usage was up to 1.8 GB! It just keeps climbing and climbing right before my eyes.
That issue is on my iMac 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, OS X 10.8.4.
Since then I have a new Retina MBP that I've installed it on... I haven't seen the memory hog issue but the latest version is not stable. It constantly becomes unresponsive and I will have to hunt down the application and double click on it to open it again even though it's already open. That's the only way I can have it respond. I've put the icon in the menu bar and that helps but either way... shouldn't be happening.
I don't know what the dev changed to cause these issue but please revert back. This app used to be the best in the business and I would have gladly paid for it.... if it worked properly.
Hope if is fixed soon.
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from the log:
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSTableCellView
Referenced from: /Volumes/Quicksilver/Quicksilver.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/QSCore.framework/Versions/A/QSCore
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit
in /Volumes/Quicksilver/Quicksilver.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/QSCore.framework/Versions/A/QSCore
1.0 worked fine.
I wonder if this means we're moving towards 10.7 Lion minimum?
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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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