Quicksilver
Like any self-respecting geek who uses a Mac, I use Quicksilver. I’m not a power user of it, but I do use it a few times a day. Some Quicksilver fanatics will complain when they find that I mostly use it as an app launcher, but they also have to understand that I don’t solely use Macs and have my aging Treo 600 as the glue of my computing life. The Treo, along with Tasks, stitches together my experience across platforms.
Quicksilver, however, is the glue of my Mac experience. If I need to know something, I’ve hit Cmd-Space before I can even think very much. It just works. I love the present tagline: “Just Show People the Results”. That’s what it does. Explaining more wouldn’t help; just take a little time and work with it.
As always, YMMV.
Quicksilver is always the first thing I install after an OS reinstall. Like you, I only use it as an app launcher, but I always miss it if it’s not installed.
I’ve tried using it for other things, but always end up getting frustrated at setting things up. I know there are tutorials out there for getting it configured, but I guess I always find the wrong ones that don’t explain anything clearly enough.
April 6th, 2006 at 20:28Man, I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels the same way.
April 6th, 2006 at 20:29I told you! (didn’t I tell you to use it?)
April 7th, 2006 at 00:36We did talk about it, Lara.
April 7th, 2006 at 12:41LaunchBar is better.
The last 2 people I told this to bought LaunchBar licenses within a couple weeks of me educating them thusly.
April 8th, 2006 at 09:42