Yesterday I finally found the one application that really make me love owning an Apple computer. Yesterday I started using Quicksilver, now note that I'm not an OS X 10.4 user, the upgrade from 10.3 to 10.4 seemed dumb didn't bring much to the table that I wanted and I'm pretty happy with that decision. However, what I didn't realize is that all the cool hipster apps for everyones favorite fruit based computer/electronics company pretty much only supports the latest and greatest normally due to some Java version incompatibility. (Thats a story for another day) In any case I thought that Quicksilver would be the same, I am now glad that I was wrong and now have a powerful keyboard controlled interface to operate all the OS X goodness.
Now that I've had a bit more time to get use Quicksilver, I've learned the power of triggers. You may ask your self what are triggers and why do you care? Well to answer the second question first because its cool and once you've got it down you'll wonder how you ever lived with out it. As for the first question, triggers are a form of Quicksilver (macro/script) that can be triggered at anytime by Quicksilver by a simple key combination. So let's say I want to control iTunes without having to constantly switching back and forth to it. You can create a trigger that utilizes an iTunes control plug-in and map it to a specific key combination. Still with me? Well instead of putting my own tutorial together, which I will do at some point I'll point you to the one I used. Props go to the Digg community for finding this post (iTunes with Quicksilver).
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