Quick Review on Quicksilver - A Lawyer’s Perspective

In our first MILO Chat Podcast, my friend Finis Price mentioned how much he was using Quicksilver and how useful he found it. I, on the other hand, let him know exactly what class of moron I was and how I couldn’t figure out how to use it.

I’ve since become less of a moron. I downloaded Quicksilver and used it for two weeks as a quick launch program. I would have Quicksilver running in the background and as I needed an application that wasn’t (or sometimes, as I got adept, was) on the dock, I would punch in my quick keystroke and launch the application I needed. Sometimes I had a problem remembering the name of the program I needed to open (like I forgot that the program is called “Swift Publisher” not “Program that does that cool layout stuff I love.”

I downloaded the MacBreak video with Merlin Mann that shows how to use the “Action” part of Quicksilver more effectively. Of course, it requires that the necessary plugins have been downloaded, and therein lies the problem. I have tried downloading the necessary plugins 5 or 6 times already and it chokes my Quicksilver and goes nowhere.

So, I have a great, free quick launch program for my computer, but I don’t have that awesome program that everyone seems to be raving about.

I’ll keep trying, but if you have any hints or suggested solutions…I’m all ears.

Posted by Victor J. Medina,
Medina, Martinez & Castroll, LLC