Slightly OT, but...

Ben Rady

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Mar 10, 2010, 8:59:03 PM3/10/10

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At the last meeting there were some opinions voiced on new alternatives to Quicksilver. Anyone care to re-voice some of those opinions?

Ben

Jim Breen

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Mar 10, 2010, 9:55:27 PM3/10/10

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I'd like to hear them, too.

Tyler Jennings

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Mar 10, 2010, 10:13:58 PM3/10/10

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I've been using Launch Bar, it is pretty good.

Sergio Rabiela

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Mar 10, 2010, 10:51:00 PM3/10/10

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I gave up jumping through hoops trying to get Quicksilver to work with
Snow Leopard. I switched to the Google Quick Search Box and I'm
pretty happy with it.

Griffin Caprio

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Mar 11, 2010, 10:02:59 AM3/11/10

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I use LaunchBar. A nice plus for LB is that they allow you to navigate through search results using HJKL, which should appeal to the people in this group :)

- Griffin

Adam Walters

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Mar 11, 2010, 10:18:43 AM3/11/10

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I switched to LaunchBar from QS a few months back. I was running into issues with QS on Snow Leopard so gave it a shot. Definitely pleased with the results. Here are a few of the features i like:

-Search Templates -- quick ways to search resources for something. Comes with a bunch out of the box (google, amazon, etc), but it's really simple to set your own up. For example, I have the rails and ruby rdocs (from railsapi) setup as searchable from LaunchBar

-All of the OSX actions work very well, eg- "Eject All Disks". I never had much luck w/ similar actions in quicksilver

-Built in clipboard history

-Easy to launch scripts and provide input

A lot of these things were doable in QS, but i always had mixed results.

I also spotted this the other day, but didn't look into it much: http://www.alfredapp.com/

-Adam

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