For those of you who just can’t seem to get away from your Mac because you have so much to do…finish a blog post, reply to 30 emails, send off a few unprofessional forwards, browse the web for the latest SEO news, process all your website orders, call 10-20 customers, etc. (that’s about my list today), I was introduced to a handy little install for my Mac that has helped me get a little faster. It’s called Quicksilver and you can find it at Blacktree.com.

Here is what you find as the description of Quicksilver at blacktree.com: A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data. So I’m not really sure what that means, but here is what it has done for me so far.

I’m able to open MyDocs by pressing ctrl space and then start typing mydocs and then hit return. This is the biggest help it’s been so far in that fact that I don’t have to stop typing and use my mouse to get a file open that I need to access for some reason. That fact alone has sold me on keeping it and using it often. I’ll learn the rest as I go.

Here’s a little more of the description Blacktree.com offers: Quicksilver’s greatest strength, however, is not search. Any item you are able to find, drag, or otherwise pull into its universe is endowed with many potential uses. Hitting <tab> takes you to the action field, where you can use the same adaptive search to select what you would like to do. Among other things, files can be emailed, copied, compressed. Text can be modified, transmitted between programs, or searched for on the web. Some actions even support an indirect object, so you can send an item to a person, move files to another folder, or open files with a specific application.

Check it out if you are interested.

Posted by Andrew Melchior