Quicksilver Tutorials
- February 24, 2005
- 2 comments
I’ve been using Quicksilver for several months now, after switching from LaunchBar. Quicksilver has to be the most amazing utility available for OS X at this moment. What makes it even more amazing is that it’s free!
Quicksilver at its most basic is a file/application launcher. Invoke QS, punch in a couple keys, hit return and you’re good to go. For example, to launch Photoshop, I invoke QS, type in “APS” and hit return. For Firefox, I type in “FOX”. For Mail.app, “M”. You could use whatever you wanted, really. But this is just the beginning of the amazing things you can do with QS.
There are a couple of QS tutorials now. A Beginner QS Tutorial and an Intermediate QS Tutorial. Both are well-written and easy to follow. They both showed me a couple tricks I didn’t know about.
The coolest one is the Triggers functionality. For example, I have set up three triggers for iTunes that allow me to pause/play or skip to the next/previous song. QS will also pop up a little window showing which song is playing and will include artwork if I have it. That means, I can get rid of other stand-alone apps that do the same thing. Which means less stuff loading at startup and using precious RAM.
If you haven’t given QS a look yet, I highly recommend it. What have you got to lose? It’s free!
I currently use Sizzlingkeys for controlling iTunes. It is a free app and very very good. Though I have just download QS today and am itching to use all its features.
Jonathan
A Wireless Golfer
I’ve been using QS for a while now and I had no idea I could use it to control itunes. That’s really sweet. I spent $7 on a little app to do just that. Its a nice app that does a lot of little things but the basic thing I wanted use to stop/start itunes without switching to it.
I’ll have to take a closer look at these tutorials.