Ian McShane » Quicksilver http://www.ianmcshane.org All my stuff in one place Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:11:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Quicksilver roadmap at the end http://www.ianmcshane.org/2007/12/07/quicksilver-roadmap-at-the-end/ http://www.ianmcshane.org/2007/12/07/quicksilver-roadmap-at-the-end/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:28:43 +0000 Ian http://blog.maccarocks.com/2007/12/07/quicksilver-roadmap-at-the-end/
  • Shortcuts and Quicksilver
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  • Skitch
    • ]]>     In an earlier post, I mentioned how i’d been an admirer of the Quicksilver application and its workflow. Having finally picked up a Mac for full time use (work & play), it was I think the 2nd application I installed. It’s definately a great productivity tool. I’m not keen on the way OS X has all of it’s apps in one folder – I hate scrolling using a track pad, even with Apples two finger “gesture” method – and the Stacks feature of OS X Leopard doesn’t cut it for me.

    So, with all that, I was gutted to read today that it is almost certainly in it’s final state – certainly from the developers POV according to this interview on Lifehacker.
    Hopefully there is a community out there that will pick up the Open Source project and take it on.
    I’m still looking for a decent Dictionary plug-in that works with Leopard…

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  • Quicksilver roadmap at the end
    • ]]>     I’ve always preferred to use the keyboard more than the mouse so i’ve been intrigued by QuickSilver for a long time. It was almost a weekly subject on the LifeHacker RSS feed for a while earlier this year. Being a Mac only app, I was pretty jealous, but was fine with the CTRL + R shortcut to bring up the Run box in Windows…

    I’ve been using QuickSilver for a couple of weeks now and haven’t really scratched the surface of it. I only use it to open apps quickly (Terminal, Eclipse, Textmate) and haven’t gotten around to seeing what the right hand box can offer just yet. It certainly beats having a massive Dock or trawling through the Applications folder.

    On another but related note, what’s the deal with Firefox (Mac), Safari and webpage check boxes?
    I’m used to being able to tab down a web form and submitting without having to use the mouse at all. However on my Mac, neither browser will tab to the checkbox. It’s so much quick to tab to it and hit space than to muck about with the mouse/trackpad.

    Is this just a config thing or is it really by design? To me, it seems a bit of a usability issue. Of course i’m no expert on that subject really.

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