Home   Meeting Notes   Schedule of Events   Contact Information   Links   Pictures   Official Documents   Widget Download   Search Clarkson MUG   Reviews Quicksilver: Quicksilver is quite literally an application launcher on Steroids.  With the aid of various plugins, the potentials for Quicksilver are limitless.  It will do anything from moving files about on your computer, to acting like a calculator, to running shell scripts, to changing your desktop background, to playing music on iTunes... and everything in between. As a result, it would be impossible to explain all of Quicksilver's many features on this page.   Instead, I will attempt to introduce you to quicksilver and explain a few of its more basic features.  The rest is up to you :-) Once you have quicksilver installed, you can simply double click it to begin.  A flashy white logo will show up, and then quicksilver will dissapear into the background.  To activate it, the default key combination is "Apple-Space" Press these keys and you will see an elegant bezel appear above all your aps.  Now try typing the names of some applications or Documents you know you have on your computer.  You will notice that while you type, Quicksilver will instantly start to search for anything that contains the letters you searched for... placing the most likely one in the bezel window.  As soon as you stop typing, another window will pop out of the top one... containing a list of other possible matches.  You can browse this list using the arrow keys and select the item you were looking for.  Once you have selected the item you were looking for, press enter... and walla! open! Now lets try doing something a little different.  Sure it's nice to open Applications and files and stuff... but wouldnt it be nice to do something more?  What if I wanted to move a file or manipulate it in some other way?  Fortunately, quicksilver does this.. and more.  Open quicksilver again (with the "Apple-Space" keys and type something else in for Quicksilver to find.  However, instead of just hitting return, press the tab key followed by the down arrow.  This will list all of the possible operations you can perform on the item you previously selected Now by using the up and down arrows, you can perform any of these options.  They range from anything as simple as renaming a file, to launching another instance of an application.  And with plugins, you can add many many more.  Now lets try looking at how this program works, and modify some of its settings.  We can do this through the preferences.  To do this, you must open quicksilver again (Apple-Space) and click the little triangle at the top right of the window.  From here, a  popup menu will appear from which you can selec the preferences pane.  You should get something that looks like the following: From here, you can change anything from the look of quicksilver to the catalog of files it references.  This cann be very useful becuase it allows you to tell Quicksilver which files to search.  Probably the most useful feature is the ability to add plugins.  You can find most of them at: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/plugins.php?feature=2 Well, that just bairly scrapes the surface of what quicksilver can do, so I encourage you to play with it and try out some of the more amazing features.  I can guarentee, if you use quicksilver you wont remember how you survived without it.