My macintosh just got 100 times cooler today. Thanks to John Hicks and his entry on menubars I just added two great applications to my Macintosh. The first of these is QuickSilver which is nothing short of amazing. It's been a long dream of mine to be able to just type in what I want and have the application return it to me. And now, that dream is real. I simply trigger QS, type in what I want, and away I go. Oh, and it also can control iTunes, send messages and files over Adium, locate documents, run scripts and commands, and I bet it could even make an iced mocha if someone had the time to create the plugin. I must say though, their site does little to explain what exactly QS does. Let me take a moment to say that what it does on the surface is launch programs. What it really does deep inside is provide a text-searching interface to anything on your computer with a robust menu that lets you do pretty much anything with anything you find.
The second of these applications is known as Synergy which I had actually heard a lot about, but had never grabbed. Having seen it's interface and having become annoyed with alt-tabbing into iTunes to switch tracks, I decided to give it a whirl. As of Synergy's install, iTunes has been given the Cmd+H treatment, and I don't miss it at all. Plus the next-track flyout reminds me of all those music notices when you are playing an EA game. As if that wasn't enough, it also downloads album graphics off of Amazon for me and is pretty customizable. I have yet to try it with multiple monitors, but I'm really confident it will do fine.
And so now my Mac does more and does it better. All that remains is finding a decent Mac CVS client for work. I'm not entirely sure if such a thing exists. If so, it will make life much easier. If not, well I've got a command line.
In response to "Great Mac Apps":
Wow. Someone who uses a Mac. I used to Synergy, but I ahve never used QuickSilver before, I’ll have to try it out.
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