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Quicksilver Interface plugin - Showcase

This is a plugin for the application launcher Quicksilver, adding a new interface.

The special thing about this interface is that it heavily uses the new CoreAnimation technologies introduced with Leopard (MacOS 10.5).
It is definitely a nice eye-candy, so I hope you have fun on it, but for serious Quicksilver-Power-Users it might be a few milliseconds too slow.

I started coding an interface, because a friend showed me a mockup of an interface with CovertFlow (you can find it on the blacktree-forums, which are down at the moment). So I will not stop working on this project until I have a CoverFlow-like navigation working on Quicksilver.

Downloads
Showcase Quicksilver plugin

Links
QS-Interface tutorial: Best website I found. Documentation on Quicksilver is rare and this site helped me a lot getting into the hole plugin thing. But I still had to look at the Quicksilver source several times to get all my stuff working.

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Weblog MacApper details how to set up Quicksilver as a quick and universal dictionary lookup tool. The step-by-step covers everything from installing the Dictionary plug-in to assigning a universal trigger that can define the currently highlighted word. The trigger isn’t necessary, of course, since you can also get definitions by typing the word into Quicksilver and selecting the Dictionary action. In fact, when you install the Dictionary plug-in, you also get a Thesaurus plug-in to boot. I’ve been using Quicksilver as my primary dictionary ever since I got my Mac, and it’s definitely the quickest way I know to perform a fast lookup. To brush up on your Quicksilver chops, check out our beginner, intermediate and advanced guides to Quicksilver.

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