Quicksilver learns what you mean by certain abbreviations as you use them. Do this a couple of times and Mail will become the top result. This isn’t limited to applications. It applies to anything in Quicksilver’s catalog. Launching is a gateway drug: Saying that Quicksilver is an application launcher is like saying a car is a drink holder. Quicksilver is a launcher utility app for Mac OS X which gives you the ability to perform common, every-day tasks rapidly and without thought. Contacts, music and much, much more. Quicksilver 1.4.2 – Application launcher and much more. June 21, 2016 Quicksilver is a light, fast and free Mac application that gives you the power to control your Mac with keystrokes alone. Mac OS X-only Quicksilver is the original application launcher and-then-some, with a huge repository of plug-ins designed to take Quicksilver well beyond traditional launching. Quicksilver is a launcher utility app for Mac OS X which gives you the ability to perform common, every-day tasks rapidly and without thought. An introduction to Quicksilver's abilities include: Accessing applications, documents, contacts, music and much, much more.
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Quicksilver is a launcher utility app for Mac OS X which gives you the ability to perform common, every-day tasks rapidly and without thought. An introduction to Quicksilver's abilities include:
- Accessing applications, documents, contacts, music and much, much more.
- Browsing your Mac's filesystem elegantly using keywords and 'fuzzy' matching.
- Managing content through drag and drop, or grabbing selected content directly.
- Interacting with installed applications through plugins.
For example, if you want to launch an application hidden in the depths of your file system, simply activate Quicksilver with a keystroke, type a few letters of the application's name, then hit Return or Enter to launch it. When you don't need Quicksilver, it keeps out of your way, preserving precious screen real estate, and yet you can summon it instantly with a key stroke - just like Mercury the winged messenger. (Ed. Note: Actually, Roman mythological texts are remarkably silent on whether Mercury could be summoned with a key stroke, but it would have been great if he could. Quicksilver will certainly make you feel as if you have god-like powers.)
Quicksilver indexes and parses selected parts of the contents of your hard drive in the Catalog, so that it locates and displays the items matching your search really quickly. If you are a programmer or an über-geek, you will be glad to know that you can extend and customise Quicksilver until it does exactly what you want it to. The modular structure also means that the application will never be bloated: You only load the modules that you find useful.
If you hate reading manuals, make sure that you read the Quickstart Guide. That should be sufficient information to get you up and running, and it will also give you pointers to the plethora of other features and customization options that you might be missing.
What's New:
- The plugin download getting stuck shouldn't happen anymore, but it seems the Eclipse plugin fails to unpack correctly, so you won't be able to download it. The thing is I have been forced to disable the progress bar, because IIRC it was actually causing the problem (yes, there is no supported way of knowing a download progress in Apple's
- API, go file bug reports guys, this is a shame).
- Fixed the issue I introduced by not checking for smaller parts of an abbreviation (fx will now correctly match Firefox).
- This is an universal build, default plugins included.
- Tried to blindingly fix the Shelf crash bug. If some of you can reproduce it, write me some directions in a ticket. I haven't been able to. I also wondering if it's not wrongly named, IIRC it's more easily caused by copying a big chunk of Photoshop data than by using the Shelf.
- Trigger scoping.
- Dockable windows that have a tendency to spring out when applications changes or to get stuck in one space do (or should) not do this anymore.
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Like many other Mac users, I use QuickSilver, Spotlight, and sometimes the little buggy, mouse-drive controlled launcher, Sapiens, to launch applications, websites, folders, and documents. But the other day, I realized that I could use the AppleScript feature of the text expansion plug-in, TextExpander to launch applications and perform other functions without having to rely on the often required command, option, or control keys to for keyboard shortcuts.
Using the TextExpander method I'm about to show you, you can create AppleScript commands to launch applications, close Finder windows, create new TextEdit documents, and much, much more depending on your AppleScript skills. With this method, you save a step or two of having to call up Quicksilver or Spotlight to type in a command. Just as you use TextExpander abbreviations to spell out words and phrases, you can use TextExpander's Applescript command feature to run scripts using assigned abbreviations. So instead of using Command-Q to quit a selected application, you can quit say Yahoo Messenger even if it's in the background with a simple AppleScript and abbreviation like say 'qy' (my abbreviation for quitting Yahoo Messenger.) Since using this method, I now open up frequently used applications, create new TextEdit document, and rate a currently playing iTunes song on the fly.
Note, however, that this TextExpander method doesn't seem to always work when you have the TextExpander/System Preferences as the front most window on your desktop. Also, if you use these abbreviations while typing in a document, the first letter of the abbreviation will appear before the script is executed. So if that's a problem, you may not want to use this method. Or in this case, you can simply switch to the Finder and then type your needed abbreviation.
So here's how to create a script and use it in TextExpander:
1. Open up that old crusty Script Editor (it's in your application's folder) that you may not have ever used in a while. If you're not a developer, Script Editor might seem like a foreign language, but for our needs, it's pretty much a copy and paste procedure.
In Script Editor click File>New, and copy and paste the following sample script in the editor:
tell application 'Finder'
activate application 'iCal'
end tell
Click the Run button to make sure it works for you. There's no reason it shouldn't.
2. Now open up TextExpander and create a new snippet as you normally do. Paste your script in the contents column on the right. Choose Content: AppleScript from the drop down list at the top of the TextExpander window. If you don't choose this feature, the command of course won't work.
Now create an abbreviation for activating your script. I chose 'ical' (without the quotation marks of course) and kept it case sensitive so that I could still type 'iCal' with a capital C, which means the script will only run when I use the lowercase c.
Now from within any application or the Finder, you should be able to type 'ical' and the connected script in TextExpander will open iCal for you. If you're writing in a document, the 'ical' abbreviation will partially appear, but the script will run anyway. Remember, you can always just switch to the Finder and then type the abbreviation if you don't want to be bothered by this little issue.
That's it for this example. To create another similar script like this, you can replace 'iCal' in this script with the exact name of another application. Also, you really don't need to save the scripts you create in AppleScript because they're now saved in TextExpander.
If you find yourself creating more scripts for this method, you will probably want to create a separate folder in TextExpander to house your script commands.
Here are some more short and sweet ideas for scripts. It's a good idea to test these scripts in the Script Editor before applying them in TextExpander.
tell application 'Finder'
quit application 'iChat'
end tell
Replacing the word 'activate' with the word 'quit' in the first script above is a quick way to close an application. I know you can use Command+Q to quit an application, but with the TextExpander method, you can quit a specified application without it being activated. I use 'qc' for this one.
tell application 'Finder'
1password 6 8 9 – powerful password manager. activate
end tell
This one switches you to the Finder without having to use your mouse or the tab key.
I don't personally use this one, but I thought it might be handy and simple enough for others. I might assign 'ff' to this one if I used it.
tell application 'Finder'
if the (count of windows) is not 0 then
close every Finder window
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end if
end tell
This script closes every opened Finder window. I use the abbreviation, 'qq' for this one. It's a quick way to close out windows on my desktop from with any application.
If you just want to close one window at a time, a short abbreviation like 'ff' is faster than Command-W in my view. And again, you can as far as I can tell do it from within any application. Here's the short script for closing the top most Finder window.
tell application 'Finder'
activate
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close Finder window 1
end tell
Here are a few more script ideas.
tell application 'iTunes'
play track 'Feelin' Good' of playlist 'Library'
end tell
This one plays my favorite song to date. (When you copy and paste the script, simply replace my song title with the exact name of your favorite song title.) The TextExpander abbreviation I use for running this script is 'fs' simply because it best describes the function and it's key combination I'd rarely if ever type otherwise. Or you might just use 'favoritesong' so you can remember it even better. Just make sure the two words are joined together. Also what's neat about this, is when 'Feelin' Good' ceases to be my favorite song, I can quickly change it to another one in TextExpander.
tell application 'iTunes'
set rating of current track to 100
end tell
I use QuickSilver to rate my iTunes songs on the fly, but with this script, I can rate a current playing song 5 stars just by clicking my assigned abbrevation, 'rr' instead of the Command-r that I used with Quicksilver. A little faster in my view. By the way, I learned that ratings in iTunes are rally like 0-100. 100 being 5. For my purposes, I rate all my iTunes songs a 3 when they're first imported, and I re-rate favorite selected songs a 5. I don't bother with numbers in between.
tell application 'TextEdit'
activate
make new document at the front
end tell
This one creates a new TextEdit document. My abbreviation: 'tte.' This script saves me like three steps in the usual process for creating a new document.
tell application 'TextEdit'
Corelcad 2020 0. activate
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save every document
end tell
Saves every open TextEdit document I have open. I like this one better than Command+S because I can type the abbreviation 'sd' ('save documents') faster in my hand than the Command+ option. Of course, this doesn't work well when you're actually typing in a TextEdit article because the first letter of the abbreviation will appear and that you have to save the document again. So it's best to simply switch to the Finder and then type the abbreviation for this script when you want to save one or more documents at the same time.
tell application 'Safari'
activate
open location 'http://news.google.com/'
end tell
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I use 'hh' to call up my Safari homepage. I call up this page throughout the day to check news, and this short key is surely a time saver. Of course, just substitute the URL in the example above with your own.
There's really no limits to the scripts you can create, but I'm in no shape or form a skilled script developer. I use Adam Goldstein's AppleScript: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly Press) and Stephen G. Kochan's Beginning AppleScript (Wiley Publishers) to help me with my script writing needs. AppleScript also comes installed with a set of default scripts that you might find useful.
Finally, I want to add that you can actually make a print out of your TextExpander abbreviations and commends so to help you remember them, or can you write abbreviations on a yellow sticky and affix it to your monitor for quick preview. Just use the print feature TextExpander to accomplish this.
If you come up with additional short scripts that others might want to use with TextExpander, feel free to post them in your comments.