My thoughts on the Google Quick Search Box
I work with computers. I use a Mac and started doing so for about five years ago, when I got sick and tired of spending copious amounts of time just to get Windows XP to work, and even more time trying to get something done with it. So I use Quicksilver for doing stuff quickly on my Mac (and that’s just links from that one site—QS is powerful stuff).
I know and curse the fact that Quicksilver is no longer supported by its creator, Nicholas Jitkoff. On the other hand, he started working for Google and making Quick Search Box (Quick Search, Quicksilver, QS, hmmm). This definitely looks promising, and having Google behind you must be great.
Despite the already nice feature set, Quick Search Box is far from a Quicksilver replacement for me in its current state, something I tweeted about earlier this evening. Google QSB tweeted back, and pointed out that some of the things I complained about already exists. I am aware of this, but for me the workflow is much smoother in Quicksilver. So smooth, in fact, that it inspired me to make a video showing you just how fast. My first YouTube video! (Sorry for that one typo, btw.)
(View it full screen if you wish to see what is really going on.)
These are just some of the features I welcome in Quicksilver. I just might make a some more videos if you enjoy that sort of thing. In that case, let me know in the YouTube comments. I thought about making a “Quick Search Box doesn’t do all I want it to do” video, but I’d rather just keep an eye on how it evolves and perhaps do a short video review later on. Maybe I’ll even add an audio commentary track!
On why you should consider OS X
You can put visual effect layers on top of Windows or Linux, but it’s just painting a turd. Instead of ordinary frustration and time-wasting, you get pretty frustration and time-wasting. (And that’s subjective — personally, I find Vista’s Aero and the Linux “eye candy” add-ons to be garish, ugly, tacky, and completely missing the point.)
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Use a Mac for 6 months, and you’ll wonder why you ever used anything else.
As a happy Mac user for the last five years, I couldn’t agree more. I’ve used Windows for the last fifteen years. Ten at home, and the last five through my job as an IT advisor. It is good for one thing and one thing only: Testing my patience. I have become a very, very patient man.
