Google Quick Search Box
It seems every Mac related site or blog I read talks about this wonder-app called Quicksilver, so naturally, I went to check it out, and I found that it is all but abandon-ware. It did intrigue me however; it’s feature set reminded me of GNOME Do, which is probably backwards since I believe GNOME Do was actually inspired by Quicksilver.
As I said, it seems that the Quicksilver project has been abandoned, and the version I downloaded promptly crashed on my Snow Leopard install. What I soon discovered is that the developer responsible for Quicksilver, Nicholas Jitkoff had actually went to work for Google and worked on developing the Google Quck Search Box, and that was the program I should be checking out.
I really didn’t have any fancy uses planned for the GQSB other than just being an application launcher. After reading up, I discovered that I could also use it to post to Twitter. Initially I was just going to to back to using Spotlight as my app launcher, but soon after disabling GQSB, I immediately was trying to invoke the quick search box to send a tweet – it felt so natural, that I decided to re-enable GQSB as my default application launcher and tweet sender.
I’m still using Tweetie to read my tweets however.
