![]() I mentioned this in my post two months ago and got an email from the developer, Norbert Heger of Objective Development, the next day. While Quicksilver would disappear after running the script, LaunchBar hangs around and has to be manually dismissed. ![]() These scripts take the URL of the frontmost Safari window and put it in the clipboard-surl passes it through the Metamark URL-shortening service first. Arrow keys take you back and forth through the clipboard history when you find the text you want to paste, hit the Return key.Īnother difference between LaunchBar and Quicksilver made itself known when I started running my “surl” and “furl” AppleScripts. Jumpcut activates with a keystroke (Control-Option-V by default) and brings up a Quicksilver-like bezel with the most recent text clip. I tried a few other clipboard history applications, free and commercial, but none of them worked the way I wanted. The solution was Jumpcut, a free utility from Steve Cook. After I upgraded to Leopard, Quicksilver’s clipboard history window became kind of a pain in the ass, popping up for no good reason and forcing me to stop what I was doing to dismiss it. I’m thinking I should just send Red Sweater the $15 for the commercial version of FastScripts, even if I never need all its extra features. That’s how I now control my music players. FastScripts has several advantages over the Apple-supplied menu, not the least of which is the ability to assign a keystroke shortcut to any AppleScript or Unix script in the user’s or system-wide Library/Scripts folder. FastScripts Lite-and its more powerful commercial brother FastScripts-take the place of the AppleScript menu that many users have up on the right side of their menubars (and which can be activated by running the AppleScript Utility application in the /Applications/AppleScript folder). Enter FastScripts Lite, a wonderful and free utility from Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software, maker of the highly-regarded MarsEdit blog editor (which I would use were it not for my deep attachment to TextMate). While I generally prefer the abbreviation mode of issuing commands, I can’t live without the one-key stab to pause and restart iTunes or PandoraBoy. LaunchBar has forced me to adopt a couple of other utility programs to make up for two Quicksilver features it lacks: Never had any such problems with LaunchBar it’s been well worth the license fee. Quicksilver would often take its sweet time bringing up its command interface, was something of a memory hog, and occasionally ate up so much of my iBook G4’s processor time that I’d have to kill and restart it. LaunchBar is certainly not as full-featured (over-featured?) or as flashy as Quicksilver, but it’s been fast and rock-solid on both my computers for these past two months. I’ve now been using LaunchBar exclusively for the past couple of months and have never even been tempted to go back. The motivation for the change was Alcor’s discouraging comments about Quicksilver’s future-and future stability-in this interview. Two months ago I mentioned that I was considering a switch from Quicksilver to LaunchBar. Next post Previous post From Quicksilver to LaunchBar
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