A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.
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What are some alternatives to Quicksilver?
I'm an avid fan of QuickSilver, and I had been using it for several years already. But then development of the application seemed to have stagnated for a while, and many bugs (specially with plugins ...
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Quicksilver-like app for iPad?
Quicksilver is a long-loved Mac app that gives you a single entry point, a command box, for performing a wide variety of actions on the Mac. It is easily extensible and scriptable. A similar app on ...
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Quicksilver will not open on my Mac (OS 10.6). Can you help?
I installed Quicksilver and due to some problems I have with the "shelf" feature I decided to uninstall it (using appCleaner).
When I tried to install it again the application wouldn't install the ...
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How can I change the keyboard shortcut key to open Quicksilver?
Fyi.. I searched Apple.SE and didn't found an answer, so I am posting here.
Currently I open Quicksilver by Ctrl + Shift + spacebar. And my Spotlight preference is Cmd + spacebar.
Most of the time I ...
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Spotlight search iTunes Match
Back before I used iTunes Match, I enjoyed being able to search my library via spotlight. Now it seems that this doesn't work anymore. I guess this is because the music is not stored locally, but ...
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Quicksilver accessible script for disabling and enabling Time Machine?
I'd like to disable and enable Time Machine at will via Quicksilver.
'nuff said.
Do you're thang, nerds. :)
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How to change the default file manager for OSX?
I've downloaded muCommander and find it better than Finder. When I open folders with QuickSilver it still uses Finder, though. How do I change this behavior?
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Quick way to enable only the web searches I want in Quicksilver
Quicksilver has hundreds of different web searches available, but I only want to use a few of them.
I can manually deselect the ones I don't want by navigating to
Modules -> Web Searches -> ...
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How to quickly send new mail without opening mail application?
I know Quicksilver has a plug in for quickly sending new mail messages without opening the Mail application.
But the Quicksilver plug in doesn't work under Mountain Lion.
How do you send a new mail ...
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How can I get Quicksilver to open bookmarked URLs in Chrome?
I'd like to be able to trigger QS and then start typing "gmail" or "weather" or the name of whatever bookmark I'd like to open, and have the previously bookmarked site open in Chrome, my default ...
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Quicksilver and Spotlight
I have found that I need to run both Quicksilver and Spotlight. I consider this to be a waste of CPU and memory and would like to eliminate one of them probably Spotlight. The reason I would like to ...
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LaunchBar/Quicksilver as a replacement of Spotlight?
I asked about the usefulness of spotlight here, as I don't like the drag that spotlight causes all the time.
What I found useful in Spotlight is those two.
word lookup : spotlight opens ...
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Can I make applications load on the same monitor as the mouse cursor?
I have multiple monitors, and with Quicksilver and Magic Mouse gestures I open applications without using the dock more often than with it. Is there a way to have these application windows appear on ...
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Activate fluid app pinned to status from Quicksilver
I use Fluid apps that are pinned to my status bar. If I click on the icon in the status bar, the Fluid app will get focus. I'd like to be able to give an app focus from Quicksilver instead of having ...
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Alternative to Quicksilver Triggers
Well after using QS for quite some time, it no longer works...Even when loading it on a clean SL build with latest Apple updates. When I set up a trigger they will only work until I reboot. At that ...
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Hotkey access to a browser URL based on a URL part on the clipboard
I'd like to open a Safari tab based on a bug number that I have on the clipboard via a hotkey. The url I want to launch has the form http://example.com/defects/nnnn where nnnn has the number that is ...
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Instant send feature in quicksilver
I just switched back to quicksilver and I was wondering if there is an instant send feature in QS like Launchbar.
in Launchbar, you can define a hotkey which will send the selected file/folder as a ...
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Quicksilver to email an item
I am trying to get the hang of Quicksilver. I have actually used it for over three years, but entirely as a simple launcher. In connection with another task I found that I needed to use it to execute ...
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In Quicksilver, for iTunes, can't make “Show playing track” enabled while keeping “Play/Pause” disabled
In Quicksilver, in the Catalog for the iTunes plugin, under "iTunes Controls" I want to enable "Show playing track" while disabling "Play/Pause". However, even after checking "Show playing track" and ...
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Quicksilver Lion Problems
I have been using Quicksilver ß60 for a while, and I recently updated to Lion. However, there is a problem. Quicksilver quit unexpectedly, and now when I launch it launches and quits immediately. I ...
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Is it possible to first enter a command and then choose “run in Terminal” in Quicksilver?
Is it possible to first enter a command and then choose "run in Terminal" in Quicksilver?
Is there another way of doing it other than Quicksilver (though I would prefer Quicksilver)?
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quick search using quick silver?
just got my first mac os computer.
installed quick silver. (I rely heavily on launchy in windows)
so, the cool feature i was able to achieve on windows using launchy, is that after saving "quick ...
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Quicksilver goes straight to text-entry mode
On my old-ish MacBook Pro (pre-unibody), Quicksilver has been misbehaving for quite some time. I fire the keyboard command to launch it (I like command-space, replacing Spotlight), and it comes up in ...
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How to create a symbolic link with Quicksilver?
Quicksilver has a "Make Alias in..." action but this creates a hard link. Is there any way, including plugins, to create a symbolic link?
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How can I toggle internet sharing from the command line? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Start/stop internet sharing from a script?
There are applescripts / automator scripts that help to turn on / off internet sharing, but they do not work consistently ...
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Quicksilver addons and plugins
Quicksilver is no doubt THE App that's must have for any keyboard ninja using Mac. Please share your [power] tips on new addons, triggers and plugins that you use.
