Here’s a geekier post than normal. A minor release of Quick Search Box (QSB) just came out, and yes in my computer-bound existence these insignificant moments are worthy of celebration. QSB (its predecessor Quicksilver, rather) is one of those little programs that totally changed the way I use my computer. I put SizeUp in this category, as well.
Anyway, onto the celebration. Here are the release notes. There are various speed improvements and a beefed-up plugin system, which will hopefully allow QSB to finally take over all the functions I’ve been missing since the Quicksilver days. Some more tidbits:
- It’s no longer a project associated with Google: “You will also notice the branding has changed significantly. We are moving from being a Google project, to a fully open sourced project.” Google is still the default search. The lead developer was the guy who wrote Quicksilver, and he developed QSB when he moved to Google. I wonder if there were personnel changes that occurred, here.
- I’ve always found the documentation for QSB lacking, but following some links from the Release Notes, I hit gold with this set of knols.
- Aside from a) opening applications and b) finding documents and folders, the most important thing about QSB is its Finder integration. The CMD-G interface for pulling items selected in the Finder into QSB (from where you can move them, copy them, email them, whatever) works again! Here’s the knol on QSB’s Finder integration.