Let me start of by saying that I’m a huge fan of Quicksilver. It’s one of those apps which keeps me using a mac as my primary machine and the first thing I install whenever I rebuild or get a new one.
But since Alcor abandoned the project and released the source the shine has begun to fade in places. On my macbook pro the main window occasionally freezes and requires the app to be forcibly quit while on my nc10 hackintosh the icon insists in remaining in the dock.
Sure there’s several efforts ongoing to tidy up the code, Ankur for one was working on it which spawned a google code project, but it’s just not the same.
Anyhow, while listening to MacBreak Weekly recently Leo mentioned that Alcor, now at google had released a new project – the Google Quick Search Box.
Being a Google ‘thing’ there’s much more emphasis on online searching but most of the core functionality that the majority of QuickSilver users want is in there including interacting with apps such as your contacts and iTunes library.
You can invoke the app with the usual keypresses, it also offeres a standard + (double tap apple) which I’ve begun to favor. Suffice to say I’m going to follow the project with great interest!
