Quicksilver

Icon for QuicksilverI 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
Tutorials listed on the Quicksilver website

- Ricky Buchanan

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

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  1. [...] 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 [...]

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