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Full Quicksilver Demo Movie 1

Written on March 12, 2006 by Nick Santilli and 24 people have commented

Let’s try this again.
Here’s the full video, starting with the setup and an explanation.
Then you’ll see a demo of selecting a file in the Finder, launching Quicksilver with the selected file loaded, selecting the Email Directly action, and typing the name of the recipient.
Full Size mp4 (Quicktime) 9.8mb
I realize this is really small. I [...]

New Feature: Video Quicksilver Demos

Written on March 10, 2006 by Nick Santilli and 15 people have commented

Here’s the deal people. Quicksilver (get over it, Quicksilver owns me, and I will forever write about it) is one of those apps that totally changes the user experience on a mac. Stop me if you’ve heard this before… But it’s also one of those things that is pretty difficult to really [...]

What’s in your Menu Bar?

Written on February 20, 2006 by Nick Santilli and 33 people have commented

Having not seen the question posed in a few months, I think it’s time once again. What’s in your Menu Bar? I think there are enough of us out there with some little app or utility that we take for granted. Lets post em so everyone can find a new gem or [...]

How Will You Test the Core Duo’s Performance?

Written on February 07, 2006 by Nick Santilli and 9 people have commented

The Core Duo iMacs have been out long enough that everyone’s gotten into the mix and penned their experiences with the speed and performance of the new machines. That’s all well and good, but until we each have out own opportunity to put a Core Duo through its paces, we won’t really be satisfied, [...]

Just Thinking: iTunes Verbiage

Written on January 30, 2006 by Nick Santilli and 9 people have commented

I just connected my iPod to load a bunch of new songs and video content from my PowerBook and noticed something that probably should be changed in a future iTunes update.
The status message of the upload read “Updating songs on iPod” yet it was in the middle of uploading video content. With iPods now [...]

To MacIntel or Not?

Written on January 27, 2006 by Nick Santilli and 23 people have commented

I’ve had the conversation a few times already.  I’m sure many of you have as well.  “Do I get a first revision Intel Mac, or do I wait until the hype dies, and bugs are worked out of the hardware/software?”
A day or so after The Keynote a couple weeks back, my good friend called me [...]

Structure vs Metadata

Written on January 08, 2006 by Nick Santilli and 18 people have commented

It’s my impression - from various reading around the internets - that of the many new features that came with Tiger, Spotlight hasn’t lived up to the hype it initially generated.
While my filing habits have slipped slightly, I still don’t use Spotlight as much as I expected I would almost a year later. Spotlight [...]

What’s Your Favorite Blog Client?

Written on December 27, 2005 by Nick Santilli and 36 people have commented

OK TAB Readers/Mac Aficionados, I need your wisdom. I’m gonna plunk a few precious dollars down on a Blog editing client/tool. You know, like Ecto or MarsEdit.
So gimme your thoughts on which you like best (I like reasons too - not just, “it’s neat!” I know, tough assignment…) - and [...]

Are you a skinner?

Written on December 16, 2005 by Josh Pigford and 24 people have commented

Back in my high school days (which also happened to by my Windows days), I and all of my friends found it quite eventful to skin the fire out of our Windows 95 interface. Windows themes were plentiful and we didn’t have anything better to do.
Now that I’m using the beautiful OS X interface, I’ve [...]

What’s in your dashboard?

Written on December 15, 2005 by Josh Pigford and 24 people have commented

Since the launch of Tiger back in April, I’ve found myself using Dashboard less and less other than a “Hey guys, look at this sweet feature.” that I throw at friends. That being said, I do use a couple of widgets pretty religiously.
The ones I “can’t live without” are:
• Unit Converter
• Phonebook
• Gas
• Lorem [...]

How do you use Smart Folders/Mailboxes?

Written on October 21, 2005 by Josh Pigford and 12 people have commented

So I’ve been using Tiger since the day it was released and there are many features that I love and others that I find completely useless or have yet to find a use for. A couple of those things that I’ve yet to really find a use for are Smart Folders and Smart Mailboxes.
I [...]

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