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Open Thread: Quicksilver podcast questions
Merlin Also | Jul 28 2006
Merlin on MacBreak: Intro to Quicksilver The response to the MacBreak on Quicksilver has been enthusiastic to say the least. Thanks to everyone who's sent emails saying they now "finally 'get' Quicksilver." That's really cool to hear. Based on lots of the messages, though, there's still lots of questions about setting up Quicksilver, loading plugins, and configuring things the way you like -- especially as seen in the video. As we've observed on the site many times, the ramp-up to full-on Quicksilver configuration can be a bitch. I want to try and route all the questions and answers into this one thread if I can. So, there's a few links below that I [="Red"]REALLY[/] encourage you to explore thoroughly before asking questions (I swear most all the answers are out there), but if you have a question not answered, the 43 Folders hive mind and I can try to help you out. Ask away (after you've really really looked for the answer on your own, okay?). My access over the next few days is limited, so any help from the Quicksilver studs out there is greatly appreciated! Good Quicksilver links:
Quicksilver power users: feel free to chime in as well with your favorite links, tutorials, and responses to questions from the new folks. Many thanks in advance. 51 Comments
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 The best you could do...Submitted by SolGrundy on July 29, 2006 - 12:37pm.
alcor wrote: The best you could do to speed this up would be to make a trigger for the later part of it, doing a predifned scale on the finder selection you just made. Ah, I was completely unaware you could have QS work with the current selection instead of having to browse through the catalog. That's huge. In case anyone else is as dense as I am: go to Preferences|Triggers, check "Command Window with Selection", assign a hot-key to it (like Command+Shift+Space). Berko wrote: Why couldn't you just do this with Automator? You could save it as a folder action or droplet. Then, from Safari, just drag and drop to the folder or droplet. Partly because I never knew you could drop files onto an Automator workflow to use as your starting point -- I thought they had to be already existing files. But mostly because the Automator frustrates me like no other app can -- it SEEMS like the parts are all laid bare for me, but every time I try to do something useful with it, I end up thinking it'd be easier just to open Xcode and write a dedicated app to do it. I'll check it out, though, thanks for the tip. » POSTED IN:
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