I have been meaning to write about Quicksilver since ATMac began, as it can be immensely helpful to anyone who uses keyboarding as their main input – including switch users and blind users. It's not something that I use personally and even people who know it very well have a hard time describing it in a single paragraph. The Quicksilver website says it's “A unified, extensible interface for working with
applications, contacts, music, and other data” which seems to be both true and completely unhelpful. The Wikipedia entry for Quicksilver is a bit better, saying:
[Quicksilver] allows users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform tasks such as launching applications, manipulating files and data, running scripts or sending e-mail.
Instead of trying to find a good description, here are some websites that I found helpful:
Descriptions of Quicksilver:
Quicksilver page on Wikipedia
Quicksilver review by Chimoosoft
Tutorials:
Quicksilver and VoiceOver, by Yvonne Thomson on the MacVisionaries mailing list
Quicksilver Tutorials
- Ricky Buchanan
Responses to "Quicksilver"
Spark « ATMac September 23, 2007 at 7:17 am
[...] anybody who uses mostly the keyboard instead of the mouse, but who isn’t geeky enough to want Quicksilver. It’s also free, which is always a [...]
Autism, iPhone, MacBook, and Life | ATMac June 21, 2010 at 7:22 pm
[...] outside of lessons and with my peers. My saviour was a little Mac app that is called Quicksilver. Quicksilver has two features of interest, the first is the large type function. It’s very simple – you [...]
Spark April 16, 2012 at 8:29 pm
[...] anybody who uses mostly the keyboard instead of the mouse, but who isn’t geeky enough to want Quicksilver. It’s also free, which is always a [...]