Fans of Launchbar for Mac OS X might want to note Quicksilver, which some seem to prefer. I have yet to work either into my OS X workflow, which is odd because I expected them to immediately jive with my personality. Ultimately, I just don't get to play with my Mac enough. There's very little time for personal computing in my life these days... *sigh*
April 2, 2004
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QS is love.
It spread like wildfire through #perl, where about half the users are new Macheads. :)
Wow. It did not take long for Quicksilver to become a permanent part of my computing lifestyle. I could almost ditch DragThing.
Launchbar is undoubtedly cool, with a low profile interface and an adaptive search behavior (which I may eventually find sorely lacking in heavy use of QS). Their v4 beta brings some features up to par with Quicksilver and beyond. But Quicksilver is slick, powerful, flexible, modular, neat looking and, best of all, completely free. (This is the closest thing to a "license" as I could find, but it's from the author: http://forums.blacktree.com/viewtopic.php?t=199&highlight=licence+license )
I've already noticed a few unintrusive bugs in their beta, but the fact that it's beta is well-advertised.