Quicksilver 71 - Application launcher and much more (beta).. (Free)

Quicksilver is a light, fast and free Mac application that gives you the power to control your Mac with keystrokes alone.

Quicksilver allows you to find what you need quickly and easily, then act upon these objets as you see fit. All with your fingers on the keyboard. As an example, if you want to find an application hidden in the depths of your file system, simply activate Quicksilver with a keystroke, type a few letters of the application's name, then hit Return or Enter to launch it, or tab and type to find an action such as Quit, Trash, Email To..., Run at Login, Move To..., Get Info, Reveal, the list goes on.

Quicksilver indexes and parses only selected parts of the contents of your hard drive in the Catalog, which means it locates and displays the items matching your search quickly. Quicksilver has a modular structure which means features for interaction with a whole host of of other applications (iTunes, 1Password, Safari, Microsoft Office) can be done after installing the relevant plugin.

Versions compatible with older OSes are available at http://qsapp.com/download.php

Version 71:

New:

• Release Notes are shown by default after each upgrade. This can be disabled by setting a hidden preference. (#1208)
• New icons from Dan Deming-Henes (#1129)
• Translations complete for several languages, and in progress for more. See the Transifex project for current status (not necessarily reflected in this release). (#1209)
• Modernized the look of the Bezel interface (#1140)
• Notification Center is now available as a notification handler in Mountain Lion (set as default) (#867, #1132)
• An application's iCloud documents are shown (in addition to recent documents) when right-arrowing into the application (#1054, #1056)
• Catalog preset for iCloud documents (#1054, #1056)
• Holding ⌘ will select the alternate action if available (#1163)
• Alternate actions can now be seen in the Actions preferences (#1163)
• Alternate actions added for Move To..., Copy To..., Make Link In..., Run at Time..., and Open With... (#1163)
• Users can control which file types get preview icons by listing UTIs in the hidden QSFilePreviewTypes preference. By default, it only lists public.item, which applies to all files and preserves the old default behavior. (#1149, #1180)
• Text entry mode allows undo, substitutions, etc. (#337, #127, #1173)
• The Large Type action can be used on text files (#1185)
• Allow non-admin users to install updates (#521, #1159)
• Right arrowing into URLs keeps links in order and link titles are more accurate (#1146, #1150)
• Enabled the "Open E-mail URL" action for e-mail addresses (#1194)
• Clear the selected pane with ⌃U (as in most Unix shells) (#1189)
• Descriptions added for all actions in the core application (#1124)
• Recent Objects and Recent Commands catalog entries are updated in real-time (#1106, #1111)
• Color QSObjects now support more icon sizes

Fixed:

• Display the correct name after using the Rename... action (#1105, #1116)
• When changing a trigger hotkey, the old hotkey will be released by Quicksilver (#1104, #1107)
• Catalog settings are saved when entries are removed (#569, #1108)
• Item details will always be up to date (#1148, #1151)
• Icons in the results list are correctly updated when they finish loading (#1200)
• Icons for proxy objects are correctly updated if the underlying object's icon changes (#1200)
• Prevent ⇧⌘[letter] shortcuts from making the application unresponsive (#1122, #1160)
• Latest Download proxy object is more reliable under Mountain Lion (#1102, #1109)
• Triggers can refer to multiple files/folders/applications (using the comma trick) (#555, #1112)
• The interface will appear above full-screen applications (#740, #1138)
• Cursor color matches text color (to improve visibility) in text entry mode (#1171, #1173)
• Prevent a crash when resetting preferences
• Prevent Primer from starting to look strange when typing in text entry mode
• Make docking windows completely transparent when they're off screen (#1064)
• Favorite Servers, Recent Servers, and Disks presets work again (#891, #1128)
• Finder Toolbar Items and Finder Sidebar Items presets work again (#683, #1169)
• The Printers preset has an icon again (#1128, #1156)
• Fixes for count badges (#1129)
• Items are ranked correctly when no search string is provided (#1162)
• Bug fixes and internal improvements (#921, #840, #1114, #1180, #1206, #1211)

Changed:

• Only show name when the label doesn't match the search at all (#1062)
• When showing the name, keep the label visible too. Shows as "label ⟷ name" (#1117)
• Always show details if the interface supports them (#1148, #1151)
• When full details can't be displayed, truncate in the middle (#525, #1151)
• Prevent the Paste and Rename... actions from appearing when multiple items are selected (#593, #1167, #1116)
• Don't dismiss the interface when a docking window (Shelf/Clipboard) appears (#337, #1173)
• Many proxy objects simplified and converted to regular objects with children (#654, #1128)
• References to Sherlock removed (#1128)
• Removed the Finder Search Locations catalog preset (#1169)
• Removed the duplicate Run[...] action. It's provided by the Terminal plug-in. (#1199)
• The Move to Trash action won't appear for files on network volumes (#1180)
• Better feedback from the Move to Trash action if one or more files can't be trashed (#1180)
• The Open With... action now lists all applications in the catalog (#1184, #1180)
• User visible notifications are used in place of Console messages in many places

Development:

• Improvements to the localization process - or is it "localisation"? (#1025)
• New dedicated type for Web Search URLs: QSSearchURLType (#625, #1082)
• New method to return the "big cat" OS version (i.e. 10.x) (#1128)
• Filter the third pane based on an action's indirectTypes (#1120)
• New methods available for QSObjects that represent files: isPackage, isAlias, isDirectory, fileExtension, and fileUTI. Improved isApplication and isFolder. (#1180)
• Overhaul the way icons are loaded in the background (using GCD) for the results list (#1142)
• directFileTypes can now be a UTI (not just an extension) (#1185)
• New helper method for passing input data to an NSTask (#1127)
• The * in the settings for QSDefaultsObjectSource can now go through dictionaries (#1169)
• Improvements to the qs-push-plugin script (#1060, #1061)
• New scoredArrayForType: method in QSLibrarian to get a list of objects sorted by rank (#1162)
• Styles defined for definition lists in documentation (#1200)

OS X 10.6 or later

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