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Why I'm Getting Back with Quicksilver

3 June 2005
Filed under Mac, Technology, Text

All that it took was a Quicktime movie - the kind of productivity porn that I'm (ironically) wasting too much of my time on these days - and I was back to using Quicksilver from the prime Apple-Space position it occupied before Spotlight came along. Spotlight - perhaps because of the depth of its searches - is noticeably slower than Quicksilver, and really most useful for the power searches it's been built for. As an application launcher, it kind of sucks.

And here's something cool: I can develop software with the power of thought. Last night, I was thinking how annoying it was that I couldn't create a new text file from within the Finder - and this morning I wake up find this among my RSS feeds. Weeee.

Views from the Floor

Khoi Vinh says:

One of the few but nontrivial number of low-level things that Windows does better than Mac OS X is allow the creation of new documents of any type from within the Windows Explorer. Document Palette does a slightly cooler job at this than Windows, but that feature really should have been built into Mac OS X to begin with.

Jeez, I'm kind of a killjoy now, huh? Sorry.

Peter says:

Like so many little apps I download, Quicksilver was an obsession for about three hours before being consigned to the "I-won't-bother-backing-this-up" bin. It's unfortunate, because pretty much everyone in the world has by now said how good it is.

I am inspired to reconnect with Quicksilver. I hope we will be very happy.

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