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Like everyone and their brother (that last one was the deciding factor), I have given Quicksilver a look… Pretty good so far but I need to play with it some more to decide which I like better: LaunchBar, Quicksilver or Butler. Both Quicksilver and Butler are free (Butler is donationware) and apparently Quicksilver will be open-sourced at some point which is a BIG advantage and makes it an early favorite.
After reading Dan Dickinson’s nice tutorial and having lived with Quicksilver all day long, I have to admit that it won me over. This app is very cool! I have experienced some slow downs once in a while and the app crashed once but apart from that, I’m really happy with it.
LaunchBar has long been the reference, it’s nice to see some competition since it will most certainly foster innovation. I have high hopes the same thing will happen between NetNewsWire and Shrook.
Related (not by much, granted), I am also reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson.
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about 6 years ago
Based on pages 1-179 of Snow Crash, I think William Gibson is a better writer than Stephenson, but it’s worth reading. I’ve heard good things about The Baroque Cycle.
Quicksilver could also become a competitor to iSeek:
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/iseek/
I like your link rollover effect!
about 6 years ago
I might have missed something but how could Quicksilver become a competitor to iSeek? Butler is already with its search functionality but I haven’t seen anything similar in Quicksilver. Granted, it could be added but is it already in there?
Thank you for the kind words on the rollover effect! I kinda like it as well but I think I still need to tweak it… A project for a rainy day, maybe?
On the subject of Gibson vs. Stephenson, I was going to reply here but I decided to expand my answe into a full-blown post!
Thanks for the feedback.
about 6 years ago
I missed the transformation of Another Launcher into Butler, so I wasn’t aware of its features until I looked at the developer’s page. Oops. Butler definitely offers competition to iSeek.
Quicksilver does not, to my knowledge, have site-specific search capabilites yet, but I can easily see such a thing being implemented. Typing in “search ” could bring up a list of available engines in the Results window. Once one was selected, the query terms would be passed to it.
about 6 years ago
Actually, according to a thread at http://forums.blacktree.com/viewtopic.php?t=196 (and according to my test, it works as described), Quicksilver could enter the searching space as well. They just need a better interface to define search engines…