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"Send to Quicksilver" returns in 10.4.4
Merlin Mann | Feb 3 2006
I was doing a little demo of Quicksilver for a few folks at Search Champs last week, when a truly amazing and life-giving thing happened: I realized that one of my favorite features of Quicksilver — cruelly torn away by a heartless Tiger upgrade a few months back — has returned following the 10.4.4 update. Best. Day. Ever. For those of you who haven’t seen The Light, you can now (again) select virtually any kind of thing on your Mac — including text strings, URLs, Finder selections and so on — and “send” it to Quicksilver by hitting “ For me this means I can type a bunch of crap in any old text file, select it, hit Now, it’s also worth mentioning that, with the versatility of Proxy Objects, you can do the same thing from within Quicksilver. Get your head around ideas like “Finder Selection,” “Current Web Page,” and “Selected iTunes Album” and you start to see even more ways to quickly get where you need to be without breaking a sweat. The more you use and explore Quicksilver, the more you see how its sticky little tendrils can be extended into nearly every corner of your Mac world. And if you missed Dan’s excellent overview of the many new Quicksilver features that have sprung up in the last little while, do yourself a favor, and check it out. You may be amazed what all’s hiding under Quicksilver’s hood these days. 12 Comments
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 Hey Merlin! Hmm... I don't know...Submitted by Allen (not verified) on February 3, 2006 - 10:07am.
Hey Merlin! Hmm… I don’t know about the command-escape!! Tell me more, this sounds extremely interesting/useful! :) »
Triggers look super powerful, but...Submitted by Patrick D (not verified) on February 3, 2006 - 10:17am.
Triggers look super powerful, but I personally don’t want to waste precious space in my brain remembering the shortcuts. Is there a way to put the triggers into a list somewhere, so I can select from a list? »
Even prior to 10.4.4, a...Submitted by guerom00 (not verified) on February 3, 2006 - 10:29am.
Even prior to 10.4.4, a special trigger was created to replace the Cmd-Esc shortcut. ;) Triggers > Quicksilver > Command Window with Selection. :) »
Maybe I'm missing something, but...Submitted by gillo (not verified) on February 3, 2006 - 11:56am.
Maybe I’m missing something, but on my iMac cmd-Esc keeps bringing me to FrontRow… »
Yeah, me too - so...Submitted by Megan (not verified) on February 3, 2006 - 12:49pm.
Yeah, me too - so since I’m not sure how to disable the FrontRow hotkey, I just went to Triggers > Quicksilver > Command Window and made a new hotkey for this. I haven’t used FrontRow once since I set up this system. And this is a neat function. »
FUCKING YES. Thank you for...Submitted by Nick Fagerlund (not verified) on February 3, 2006 - 11:29pm.
FUCKING YES. Thank you for the heads-up! I got on the Quicksilver boat late, saw the item in the Services menu, and was flummoxed at its failure to work when I hit the shortcut key; I had given up on it permanently before today. »
@Megan I was able to change...Submitted by wka (not verified) on February 4, 2006 - 1:38pm.
@Megan I was able to change FrontRow’s cmd-escape keyboard shortcut via System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse. Click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, then find “Hide and Show Front Row” listed under Front Row in the list. You can disable the command by unchecking it or set it to something else by double clicking the key symbols under the Shortcut column. (Note: I installed Front Row using this method. YMMV.) »
The thing about Quicksilver is:...Submitted by Reality Bites (not verified) on February 5, 2006 - 2:41pm.
The thing about Quicksilver is: “Oh shit, something else I have to learn.” Tag that onto applescript, automator, textpander, etc… and frankly I can’t be bothered. Could somebody post a video showing how to use it’s muscle? I’m tired, busy, and lazy. »
anything like quicksilver avaialble on...Submitted by matt (not verified) on February 6, 2006 - 7:55pm.
anything like quicksilver avaialble on other platforms? pretty please? »
Unfortunatelly, for all of us...Submitted by Albert (not verified) on February 7, 2006 - 12:22am.
Unfortunatelly, for all of us who are not english speakers, Quicksilver is not saving in the correct encoding the files generated with this cool functionallity :( Anyone knows how to solve this? »
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