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Screencast: Pimp My Quicksilver

Written on April 12, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 24 people have commented

Quicksilver

As I’ve been known to do, I take requests, and this screencast is an example of that practice. The question has been asked several times in the past about the look of my Quicksilver interface. There’s no special Quicksilver Foo that I’ve applied, as always, it’s just knowing where to look. So as the saying goes, ‘Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime’ so shall I…Because teaching you how to Pimp Your Quicksilver is just as noble as teaching you how to feed yourself, right?

Get Krunk with Quicksilver
7 mins / 36mbs

Oh, and the Fumo plugin is here.

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  1. #1 Josh Pigford says:

    Man…good speech. You are indeed quite noble for this. ;)

  2. #2 Howard Melman says:

    Nice job as usual. One note that the Menu interface doesn’t support the comma trick. Also I’d love to know the color values you use for the Bezel.

  3. #3 Martin Hauser says:

    Thanks nick, for actually doing that pimp my quicksilver screencast. Always looking forward to learn more about new stuff you put into screencasts (though not being able to get my hand on skitch sorta maked me grumpy ;-) ) keep it up!

  4. #4 Joost says:

    That’s it.

    The continuing pimping of Quicksilver has caused me to unsubscribe from your feed and never read the Apple blog again.

  5. #5 site-garage says:

    Hey, Joost. Go easy on the guy. Quicksilver is great, and I for one am extremely grateful for the useful tips. If you don’t like the blog, then just stop reading it.

  6. #6 byrnegreen says:

    I think Fumo is causing my QS some issues, and now QS won’t relaunch (yes, I restarted OSX).

    I clicked the install on the smoke-package w/o first installing the smoke-framework. Could this be the issue? How can I right this? I’m “slapping at the missing limb” right now…HELP!

    (Also, I couldn’t find the ‘Library/Frameworks’ folder. Is it hidden? How can I go about installing the smoke-fw?

    Thanks.

    Oh, and one of the things I LOVE about TAB is the Quicksilver installments! That’s not to say that this should be “The Quicksilver Screencast Blog”, just that it is one of the many topics (today being a great example) that I appreciate learning about here. Keep it up!

  7. #7 Jai K says:

    Nice icon for the home folder. Mind telling us where we can get a hold of it?

  8. #8 Phil Bowell says:

    Ha, I started a blog post today on the interfaces of Quicksilver. It was inspired by the discovery of Fumo, which I’m actually quite liking.

  9. #9 Chris says:

    Great screencast, Nick. I too am curious as to the color values you use for Bezel, and I was wondering if anyone has had problems perorming the comma trick with fumo? I am using the non-smoking version because I have an almost three year old 1 GHz G4 iBook.

  10. #10 Koen says:

    Neeto screencast!
    I hope they redesign the preferences interface soon, it is so ugly!

  11. #11 Mikal says:

    Nice screencast. Very helpful.

    On a side note, I love your desktops…Where do you find them all?

  12. #12 Ankur says:

    Thanks for the mention Nick,

    (The latest version of Fumo can always be found here.)

    @byrnegreen:
    Go to Macintosh HD, into the Librarry folder, then into the Frameworks folder. That’s where you put Smoke.framework and everything will be fine!

  13. #13 Robert Lloyd Lewis says:

    How do you make the text larger in the interface results, for those of us who can’t read the fine type?

  14. #14 Moe Green says:

    thanks for the quicksilver tip. by the way how did you pimp out your hard drive icon. that is dope.

  15. #15 Paulo Fontes says:

    Great work!

    Hey Nick can you just tell what is that Weather thing you got in the left pane when you open QS preferences panel? I manage to get it but i dont know what to do with it…It just seems like it does nothing lol…Can you help?

  16. #16 jasunto says:

    great screencast, would love to know where ya got the desktop and the icons like the wooden mac HD and also what are all the programs running in your menu bar, some of them look pretty good

  17. #17 jasunto says:

    sorry i meant wallpaper in reference to desktop

  18. #18 Tod says:

    Hi Nick - I echo all the “great job!” sentiments. I’ve been reading your three-part series about tagging and how you use QS as the main tool, and you got me convinced! Now I found this movie and I’m even more interested in QS.

    ONE THING: Count me among those who are curious about your “wood-skinned” hard drive icon! Please let us know where you found it. I did a google search and gave up as I couldn’t refine it enough.

    I’ve subscribed via RSS and look forward to many more tips and screencasts.

  19. #19 Younghusband says:

    I second the wallpaper request! That is truly krunk.

  20. #20 Jono says:

    Thanks for the screencast :)

    Another way of customising is changing the icons for some of the actions. For example I changed the Tagging icon & Paste icon as the standard ones look ropey to me.

  21. #21 Jeremy says:

    I second “Jai K” post as far as having a great home-folder icon…where’d you get it??

    Thanks and appreciate the continuous quicksilver help…

  22. #22 Nick Santilli says:

    Hey guys, I’m not ignoring the questions about my setup here. Just busy. I’ll put up a post about these things so that you don’t have to follow the comments and wait to see when I get to it… :)

  23. #23 Younghusband says:

    Thanks Nick!

  24. #24 Robert says:

    Thanks Nick, where can we find your follow up post?

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