http://homepage.mac.com/jaortega/iblog/C439613276/E492330116/index.html

Between these two URLs, was able to work this out. Thanks.

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/docs/?page=Web+searches http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/docs/?page=Launching+and+opening

Quicksilver Tutorials

When I got my Mac it was recommended to me by many people that I go and get Quicksilver because it “changes the way you use your computer” or some silly thing like that. Well I did go get…

I am nowhere near where you guys are in terms of using Quicksilver. So far I’ve used it mostly to open apps, but I just found out a couple of days ago that you can access everything that’s in your addressbook without opening it. I can write emails with it? Will try it immediately. Or, I have a txt-file where I have the html for including a link in my blog. By choosing this as a preference with the click on the mark it’s there so easy. Phew.

kadavy - there’s a preference under the Command panel called “ModKey” - this may be what you’re seeing. You can set it to any modifier and a selectable number of taps, too.

And Alcor pointed out one more feature to me last night - if you hold down a key in the target field (preferably the last key you typed in your search), after about three seconds it will automatically run the action displayed. The next time you do it, it’s much quicker (about half a second of holding), as you’ve taught Quicksilver you want to run the action with that key.

Alcor says he uses this to do all his app switching - this will be a godsend for me as I can unbind most of my app-run fkey triggers. Something new every day.

Does anyone know if it is possible to pass a string to your web browser in order to invoke a specific search. eg. in firefox, by creating a bookmark and setting the location to http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s and the keyword to ‘dict’, a dictionary search can be performed by entering ‘dict foo’. So I’m wondering if you can say something like ‘call firefox with argument “dict blah”’. Any ideas?

JoshD thanks for the mention of Approcket! Going to testdrive that now.

@Dan:

Upon careful consideration, I present the following response to the trick Alcor taught you:

Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!

ahem

Thank you for sharing. :)

Has anyone ever noticed that, rather than using Control + Space or Command + Space, you can just tap the Control key to invoke Quicksilver? It doesn’t work if you hold the Command key down for more than a few milliseconds. You have to tap it.

@John:

Approcket is a kind of intermediate Launchbar/Quicksilver. Not as flexible as QS, but they’re trying. Shareware. I don’t have an URL, so google for it…