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Quicksilver: Me & My Arrow
Merlin Mann | Nov 4 2004
O, Quicksilver, that little minx. The way she hides her functionality in coquettish little corners vexes and delights me. Did you know, for example, friends, how much you can do with Quicksilver and your modest arrow keys? Me neither. Til now. So, quick review: once invoked, Quicksilver primarily uses the arrow keys to let you navigate through hierarchies and sets of matches. Up and down arrows let you surf sibling contents of a given directory or catalog, while the left and right arrows allow you to drill down and back up out of hierarchical levels, such as nested folders and the like. (Related tip: you can also surf up and down most any hierarchy using All easy enough, right? But did you ever try clicking the right arrow key with an application selected? Well, you should.
Try these, now:
This is also probably as good a point as any to remind you about the magic of “Search Contents.” As far as I know, anything that you can right-arrow into can also be searched, right in Quicksilver. So try this:
On those last couple steps, you also can surf up and down the selections over in the right pane; this is a super-easy way to add a track to a Party Shuffle from anyplace.
Edit: As ever, make sure you’ve loaded up on Quicksilver plugins to take advantage of these and other cool tricks. The Quicksilver app provides a minimum of core functionalities and uses all the neato plugins to let you do stuff with different applications. 24 Comments
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![]() That's good stuff. You forgot to...Submitted by wolfgang (not verified) on November 4, 2004 - 6:41pm.
That's good stuff. You forgot to mention though, that for the iPhoto and iTunes goodness one has to install the appropriate plugins. In case people are wondering why it doesn't work for them :) » POSTED IN:
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