Abracadabra - Quicksilver Mouse Gestures

I was in a meeting a week or two ago where one of my bosses was using the Mac in our conference room and, upon realizing he had to open another app, hit Command-Space as a reflex. Nothing happened - Quicksilver wasn't installed. Those of us who use Quicksilver (about half of my group) all giggled - because we've all been there, grappling on a machine without QS installed.

For those of you who, like my boss and my coworkers, live and die by Quicksilver, there's a plugin you should definitely check out. Its name is Abracadabra, and it enables a third trigger type: mouse gestures. I got to play with this while it was in alpha, and I have to say, it's really damn slick, and a natural extension on top of QS.

Marcus Volwalker has a great tutorial to help you get started. And if you need help with triggers in general, check my last tutorial.

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Dan Dickinson is a 29 year old living in Jersey City, New Jersey. He works at the strange intersection of collaborative technologies, education, software development, and medicine. His passions include finding unexpected paths and connections, music/rhythm video games, interesting food, and backchannels. This has been his primary (vivid) weblog since February of 2000.

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