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3 quicksilver Entries

• 08-05-2010 Productivity Proclivity So I’ve begun reading O’Reilly’s “The Productive Programmer” and am trying to put ideas and apps mentioned in its text. I’m learning Unix commands here and there I was never familiar with, like pushd and popd. I’m also learning about quite a few apps I never would have used otherwise. While I myself am focusing [...]
• 04-24-2007 Windows Quicksilver? I am totally subserviant to Quicksilver now. (see my post from a few days ago) So tonight when I sat down at my [slow, in need of RAM but not worth it] Windows machine, I looked around for Quicksilver-like apps for Windows. What I found, essentially narrowed down to two programs: Launchy and Colibri. While [...]
• 04-22-2007 Awesome Macness So John put me onto RCDefaultApp, and it seems to be a great, simple solution to a vexing problem with Mac OS: File type associations don’t stick. Whereas in Windows, all filetypes are regulated by the evil ruler, the Registry, in Mac files seem almost to be free-floating entities with no compass telling them how [...]