{"id":39,"date":"2004-03-24T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2021-10-30T20:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T20:07:53","slug":"quicksilver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/quicksilver\/","title":{"rendered":"Quicksilver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a total <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obdev.at\/products\/launchbar\/\">LaunchBar<\/a> fanatic. Since I started using it last year, it has become an indispensable tool on my Powerbook, and I&#8217;m caught by surprise when I use another Mac that doesn&#8217;t have it installed.<\/p>\n<p>Today I was browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macnn.com\/showthread.php?threadid=166751&amp;perpage=50&amp;pagenumber=1\">this forum<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macnn.com\">MacNN<\/a> and noticed some people mentioning a new launch manager similar to LaunchBar, called Quicksilver. I decided to check it out, and it looks like it has a lot of potential. They are still in the beta stage of the project (beta 19 is the most current), but it seems to work well, and has a nice interface too. The only problem that I&#8217;ve found with it is that it&#8217;s not fast enough. I might just be spoiled by LaunchBar&#8217;s speed, but now I expect a launcher to be ready to go as soon as I hit command-space. Launching a utility in LaunchBar takes less than a second, but Quicksilver takes a second or two just to display, and another couple of seconds for me to type in a shortcut and find what I want. In the long run, things will keep getting faster though, so it&#8217;s probably nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/blacktree.com\/apps\/quicksilver\/\">check it out here<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested. The best part about Quicksilver is the price&#8230;free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a total LaunchBar fanatic. Since I started using it last year, it has become an indispensable tool on my Powerbook, and I&#8217;m caught by surprise when I use another Mac that doesn&#8217;t have it installed. Today I was browsing this forum over at MacNN and noticed some people mentioning a new launch manager similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macintosh","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}