| ameratsu said: @Marc: Cool, it's been around forever? Holy shit. Show me something comparable to Quicksilver in terms of ease of use and functionality and I'll stop using OSX on my built pc. And uh... making osx run on a built pc is a little more involved than a patch. |
Holy Shit here is a list of file indexing software some that go back as far as windows 95.
http://software.informer.com/getfree-quick-file-search-program-windows/
And oh btw, OS2 actually came with a file indexer for quick search and I am fairly sure you could get something similar for DOS and *nix if you tried because I could probably write the program (ugly as it might be) in about a day. Windows has had an index feature built into 2000 (possibly NT4 as well) but normal folks dont usually use it. Need a song? Plop it into a search after indexing and your results are practically instant. Click and launch. Remote file exchanges... are you kidding we have been doing that since the old IBM nix days and we never needed a mouse. Virtual desktops go back to the nix days as well and there were apps that gave you that feature on windows 95 as well. Do I need to describe how to make desktop shortcuts and write shell scripts too? How about the start menu, does that really need a replacement?
Dont get me wrong, I am not saying that quicksilver is bad, I am saying that it is not innovative and its features are readily available on every OS since the mid 90's for anyone who wants to use them but most people dont want to bother because most would find it unimportant. You probably never bothered to use those features before because they were not hightly advertised.
