I’ve been messing around with searching using Quicksilver, and man am I amazed. Any site you can search (google, yahoo, newzbin, etc…) you can setup a quick search using Quicksilver and your default browser. My default browser is Firefox and the search I’ll show you is for my site since google is already searchable by default with Quicksilver.
First off, make sure you have the Web Search Module plugin installed. This is what allows you to do these quick easy searches.
Next, go to your browser and navigate to a search engine or the site you would like to search. I’m going to PHATO Productions Blog (hey, thats mine).
Now do a search in the search field and submit that search.
Notice the url after you submit the search. Your gonna want to copy that url.
Now create a bookmark. In my case the bookmark url is going to be http://www.phatoproductions.com/blog/index.php?s=mac&sbutt=Go. I’m not going to keep the whole url though, I’m going to replace the search query (mac) with three stars (***). When we use Quicksilver the 3 stars will allow us to put our search query in there.
After you have created your bookmark, goto Quicksilver preferences and refresh your bookmarks for your default browser, just in case Quicksilver hasn’t done that yet.
Now invoke Quicksilver and type in the name of your bookmark.
Tab over twice and type in a search and then hit enter.
The search should open up your browser with the site you are searching with the search query, notice the url.
Thats it. Quick, easy, simple… And now your searches will be the same way once you have them all setup. I hope this helps you out, and if it is redundant, I’m sorry, but this tip would have helped me yesterday, hehe.
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Todays tutorial covers how to move a selection you have in the finder to any folder of your choosing with a simple hotkey. I show you how to do this by setting up a trigger and using the proxy object “Current Selection.” I ramble on, but you get the idea of what I was going for.
Click Here to view the tutorial - 2 min. 15 sec.
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Check this out, you can create files, folders, etc… with this quick tip. Here is where I got this info from.
The article above shows you how to make a new file using quicksilver, but I wanted to create new folders as well. Here is a quote from the article:
“Basically Alcor (the Quicksilver developer) has included a default action “Make New” which is not usable without a little setup. What you need to do is create a folder called “Templates” in ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver. In that folder you just add files of the sort you create on a regular basis, e.g. Word Documents, text documents, spreadsheets, whatever.”
Well, to create a new folder using quicksilver, just add a new folder and name it whatever you like, I called my “new folder” (creative, aren’t I?). Put this folder in the ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver folder. Now when you activate quicksilver, navigate to the folder you would like to create your new folder in, then tab over and type “Make New”, then tab over and select the name of the folder you put in there, in my case “new folder”. Quicksilver has created the new folder and brings that folder up in Quicksilver. Now if you want to rename the folder (I believe it defaults to .untitled) just tab over and type “rename” then tab over again and type in the new name. If you get good at this you can create folders and move files into that folder very quickly.
Just thought that point needed to be covered since it wasn’t cover in the article.
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