A piece of Mac freeware worth touting: Quicksilver. Very similar in many ways to LaunchBar, it’s scoring points over LaunchBar for me in three important aspects.

  • Speed. QuickSilver is fast once the initial setup scan is done (and even that didn’t take very long on my machine). No more of LaunchBar’s “Initial System Scan” on every startup.
  • Functionality. While QuickSilver looks to be able to do everything that LaunchBar can, it can also handle a lot more (including iTunes, which is a very handy little trick).
  • Price. It’s freeware. What more can be said there?

Download it, check it out, and see what you think — there’s even an (unofficial) online tutorial to help get you started playing.

(via Jim)

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