Shanti’s Dispatches

Update: I can’t in good faith recommend Colibri at this time, after a more thorough review. It’s not quite useful enough yet (no indexing of folders like ‘My Documents’, etc) and I seem to activate it too often for no reason and always ended up disabling it anyway.

For those of us tethered to Windows operating systems (some or all of the time), a few prayers have just been answered with the release of Colibri.

I can see the more cynical blogger set complaining about Colibri’s similarity to QuickSilver. Of course, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and QS is pretty darn close to perfect.

QuickSilver: The Original

One of the first applications I installed on my new mac mini was QuickSilver. The only real feature I use is the Application / File Launcher.

If you’d like to read about all the other neat things it can do, peruse the 43Folders QuickSilver archives.

With QuickSilver, you just hit ctrl-spacebar, type a few words, and QuickSilver guesses which application or file you’d like to launch. Keep typing if it hasn’t figured out which app/file you’d like to launch, and it should eventually find it. (as long as its in the QuickSilver index, which you can modify to include directories it isn’t indexing yet)

You can bookmark this, digg this or check the cosmos