Sidenote
Saturday, March 18th, 2006Sidenote is a smal tray that pops up when you hit the edge of your screen with the mouse. You can store anything that’s drag&dropable in in. Very handy to put the stuff on your desktop in a sidenote…
Sidenote
Sidenote is a smal tray that pops up when you hit the edge of your screen with the mouse. You can store anything that’s drag&dropable in in. Very handy to put the stuff on your desktop in a sidenote…
Sidenote
Quicksilver ROCKS!
Here are some basic and advanced tips how to use quicksilver in new mind boggling ways:
For a good read check this tutorials:
http://vjarmy.com/archives/2005/02/quicksilver_fro.php
http://vjarmy.com/archives/2006/01/quicksilver_gold_trigger.php
Assign custom shortcuts with triggers
1. You can use QS (QuickSilver) to bind _ANY_ action to a custom key combo. This way you can start all sorts of scripts and programms with a shortcut of your choice. Wanna have a shortcut for resizing your frontmost window? Check this one. Save the following snippet as a AppleScript… script:
tell application "System Events"
set frontApp to first application process whose frontmost is true
end tell
tell application (name of frontApp)
set zoomed of window 1 to not (zoomed of window 1)
end tell
Save the script somewhere and remember it. Then fire up QS and go to prefferences. There click on Triggers on the left side. You can add a trigger with the + sign.

In the select pane navigate to your script. Note the select pane works just like QuickSilver - just type in what you look for… After you found your application or script, press save. You’ll be back in the trigger main pane. Assign a shortcut in the right pane. That’s it.
Start/Search tracks from iTunes with QS
You can have a specialized instance of QuickSilver just for iTunes. Way faster to choose your tracks than switching to iTunes and clicking on the search pane.
Create a new trigger and select iTunes -> Browse Tracks. For the Action choose QSObjectSearchChildrenAction. Click on save and choose a shortcut ( I took option + space). That’s it. System wide iTunes track search. And it’s not only about iTunes tracks… You can modify the trigger to search for artists, playlists and so on.
Go nuts with Proxies
To use proxies you have to enable the advanced features -> Beta in QS. With this you can add proxies to QS so it knows what’s going on. Like what is your frontmost window, what webpage is in the frontmost browser and so on. You can then combine this stuff with triggers to bind your key combo to actions like: Hide other windows other than the frontmost one, or start another browser if the website you are viewing in Safari does not display correctly. To enable the proxies, go to the QS prefs, then on click on Catalog in the left pane, expand Quicksilver and check Proxies. Now you have more actions for triggers.
For other hints and ideas check the two links from the top.
Did I mention that I like the QuickSilver font? Hm, this would make a nice tatoo ![]()