Coming up with a first post is always difficult, so I thought I’d build off of Michael’s recent compliment and just write about something I use that I think other people might like: Quicksilver! (found here)

I don’t use Quicksilver for much, but it still makes my life more fun. A couple of the things I do use it for:

• Open up programs really quickly: I have Command-Space set as my keys to activate Quicksilver. After that, you can just type in the first couple letters of the Application you want to use, and it will find it. Hitting Enter should open it. Best of all, Quicksilver will learn based on your use history and if it’s not quickly finding what you want, you can always choose what you want it to find for specific searches and set these pretty easily. Oh, and you can do more than just open Applications this way — you can set them to do specific actions (there are 22 things you can do with Firefox, for instance), though quickly opening things is usually good enough for me.
• iTunes(!): It works seamlessly with iTunes. There’s a plug-in that will let you set triggers to open and do other useful things. Since Quicksilver is always running in the background, you don’t need to have iTunes selected to start your music or switch songs. For me, Shift-↑opens up iTunes and starts playing the first track, then Shift-→ skips songs, and so on. You can set these to whatever you like. There are plug-ins for other applications too, like Firefox, which will let you open your bookmarks in the same way you’d open applications.

Ok, go download it now. It might take some time to figure out how you’ll use it, but once you have your routine sorted out, I think you’ll love it.

Note: If you don’t have a Mac, you’ll have to go here first.