quicksilver's radial menus
A recent build of Quicksilver has significantly changed the method of navigating your menus with OS X. After installing the latest build and enabling advanced beta features in the preferences, you must first install the User Interface Access plug-in.
Once this all up and running, on invoking Quicksilver (after a restart), you will be able to invoke a circular radial menu which allows faster and more intuitive navigation of available commands based on your selected application or directory. It must be said that this application has been revolutionary in smoothing the human computer interface.
To ensure you make this as effective as can be, it is worth spending a little bit of time setting up a few custom triggers (iTunes and iPhoto integrate pretty well at this moment in time).
Be warned though! This feature is still a development feature - so don't be surprised if Quicksilver crashes a few times. But as this becomes more stablised in the coming months - this will be a feature to watch as it nears maturity.
As an aside, this makes me wonder how long Finder can continue to exist in its current state - not that it is bad, but the combination of Spotlight's search technology and multiple application launchers on OS X have combined to render the Finder less of a central app to more of an optional aside.
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on Friday, January 06, 2006 at 10:42 am.
