Comments on: LaunchBar Vs QuickSilver http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2006/04/26/launchbar-vs-quicksilver/ Testing the WordPress waters Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:32:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding hourly 1 By: Joseph Jaramillo http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2006/04/26/launchbar-vs-quicksilver/#comment-52939 Joseph Jaramillo Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:24:03 +0000 http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2006/04/26/launchbar-vs-quicksilver/#comment-52939 <p>And Yummy FTP destroys both.</p> And Yummy FTP destroys both.

]]> By: Barry McKenzie http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2006/04/26/launchbar-vs-quicksilver/#comment-11419 Barry McKenzie Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:55:28 +0000 http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2006/04/26/launchbar-vs-quicksilver/#comment-11419 <p>"I know I should move to transmit"</p> <p>Why? Interarchy kicks Transmit ass.</p> “I know I should move to transmit”

Why? Interarchy kicks Transmit ass.

]]> By: Joris http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2006/04/26/launchbar-vs-quicksilver/#comment-9602 Joris Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:56:41 +0000 http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2006/04/26/launchbar-vs-quicksilver/#comment-9602 <p>Came here because I was looking for any tips for integrating Interarchy more closely with QuickSilver and couldn’t help but comment.</p> <p>First up, while QuickSilver does learn which items are your favorites based on how often you choose them, you can also ‘teach’ Quicksilver which items to list first by typing your letters and then right-clicking on an item and choose ‘Set a default’ or ‘Reduce score’</p> <p>After having done that with a few of my favorite programs, I can now type RD for ‘Remote Desktop Connection’, V gets me Chicken of the VNC, VL returns Video Lan Player and so on.</p> <p>Second, Quicksilver is much, much faster if you take the time to setup your Catalogue. I chose my Applications, Download, Music, Documents, Sites, and Pictures folders. It is also very worthwhile to turn of the Actions you don’t use. I actually only have about 20 Actions ticked out of 125.</p> <p>If you’re really picky you can also choose which filetypes are returned for each Custom Folder in your Catalogue. For the Applications I have ‘application’ .app, and .fold = folders. Sites has .php, .cfm, .html, .gif, .jpg, .swf, etc. Downloads has .zip, .sit, .fold, .img etc. This helps reduce junk matches like xml files in your itunes catalogue, or html helps file from your Applications catalogue. It sounds like a lot of work but these tweaks were done over several months as I started to learn the program and really make it work to my style.</p> <p>Finally, it is definitely worth taking a look at the Flashlight interface. It looks just like Spotlight, only on the left hand side, and shows how QuickSilver is probably what Spotlight/Snotlight should have been.</p> Came here because I was looking for any tips for integrating Interarchy more closely with QuickSilver and couldn’t help but comment.

First up, while QuickSilver does learn which items are your favorites based on how often you choose them, you can also ‘teach’ Quicksilver which items to list first by typing your letters and then right-clicking on an item and choose ‘Set a default’ or ‘Reduce score’

After having done that with a few of my favorite programs, I can now type RD for ‘Remote Desktop Connection’, V gets me Chicken of the VNC, VL returns Video Lan Player and so on.

Second, Quicksilver is much, much faster if you take the time to setup your Catalogue. I chose my Applications, Download, Music, Documents, Sites, and Pictures folders. It is also very worthwhile to turn of the Actions you don’t use. I actually only have about 20 Actions ticked out of 125.

If you’re really picky you can also choose which filetypes are returned for each Custom Folder in your Catalogue. For the Applications I have ‘application’ .app, and .fold = folders. Sites has .php, .cfm, .html, .gif, .jpg, .swf, etc. Downloads has .zip, .sit, .fold, .img etc. This helps reduce junk matches like xml files in your itunes catalogue, or html helps file from your Applications catalogue. It sounds like a lot of work but these tweaks were done over several months as I started to learn the program and really make it work to my style.

Finally, it is definitely worth taking a look at the Flashlight interface. It looks just like Spotlight, only on the left hand side, and shows how QuickSilver is probably what Spotlight/Snotlight should have been.

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