Screencast: Pimp My Quicksilver
Written on April 12, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 24 people have commented
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.
Josh Pigford on April 12th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Man…good speech. You are indeed quite noble for this. ;)
Howard Melman on April 12th, 2007 at 9:10 am
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.
Martin Hauser on April 12th, 2007 at 9:49 am
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!
Joost on April 12th, 2007 at 10:55 am
That’s it.
The continuing pimping of Quicksilver has caused me to unsubscribe from your feed and never read the Apple blog again.
site-garage on April 12th, 2007 at 11:36 am
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.
byrnegreen on April 12th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
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!
Jai K on April 12th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Nice icon for the home folder. Mind telling us where we can get a hold of it?
Phil Bowell on April 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
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.
Chris on April 12th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
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.
Koen on April 12th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Neeto screencast!
I hope they redesign the preferences interface soon, it is so ugly!
Mikal on April 12th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Nice screencast. Very helpful.
On a side note, I love your desktops…Where do you find them all?
Ankur on April 12th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
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!
Robert Lloyd Lewis on April 13th, 2007 at 11:28 am
How do you make the text larger in the interface results, for those of us who can’t read the fine type?
Moe Green on April 13th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
thanks for the quicksilver tip. by the way how did you pimp out your hard drive icon. that is dope.
Paulo Fontes on April 13th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
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?
jasunto on April 13th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
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
jasunto on April 13th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
sorry i meant wallpaper in reference to desktop
Tod on April 15th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
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.
Younghusband on April 15th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I second the wallpaper request! That is truly krunk.
Jono on April 16th, 2007 at 1:23 am
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.
Jeremy on April 16th, 2007 at 10:48 am
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…
Nick Santilli on April 18th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
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… :)
Younghusband on April 20th, 2007 at 6:10 am
Thanks Nick!
Robert on April 25th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Thanks Nick, where can we find your follow up post?