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I’m sorry for the abundance of Apple posts lately, people, but hey, I’m like a little kid. Playing with the brand new toy and discovering new things every day. And a little kid does what little kids do: making adults dizzy with their questions and little discoveries.

Another of my “discoveries” (not really, it’s widely spread and used by most MacOS users) is Quicksilver. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a “unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data”. In plain words, it’s a mini-search engine, that indexes your machine data (all of it, music, pictures, applications, contacts, you name it), making search in MacOS as easy as 1-2-3.

I really cannot explain any better. You have to use it to understand. Think Spotlight on steroids. Think Windows search on illegal drugs, untraceable meds and grog all at the same time.

At first, i though Quicksilver was just a fancy hype. I kept wondering why many Mac users swear by it, insisting that it played an important role in their everyday computer life.

…and that lasted till I tried to find an application (namely Download Accelerator) when I was working on my PC.

Tabs after tabs of applications. Cryptic company names behind which the real applications lie. You’ve all had the feeling, admit it. Finding stuff in Windows XP is more than a drag, it’s a hideously difficult task.

Life with Quicksilver: Hit Alt-Space. Type the first two or three letters of the file you’re looking for. You’re there.

And it’s not just that, lots of special functions lie in this nifty little thing. Alas, I don’t use them all, I’m no Mac power user – yet.

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