Blacktree’s Quicksilver is very neato. There isn’t a lot of documentation on the website [that I could find], particularly regarding what Quicksilver does.
In a nutshell, Quicksilver is a command-key-activated launcher. Hit cmd-space, type ‘CALC’, hit enter, and it will launch Calculator.app.
What makes Quicksilver truly great is its ability to catalog all of your applications and their preferences, your favorites, your contacts, and so on. This means that Quicksilver isn’t restricted to launching your apps — type in ‘UNXM’ and it will open your favorite website. If you type the first few characters of one of your contact’s names, you can quickly pull up the Address Book page for that contact.
Quicksilver is a great app, and at the low price of zero, you can’t beat it.
Spiderman 2 rocks. Go see it.
Oh wait, you’ll all have to wait for 24 more hours! Sorry!
I picked up a EZFlash Advance kit from MyBayside.com, for about $100. I’ll only be using it to pursue my career in Gameboy game development, of course.
My first USB cable was broken on arrival, but the guy[s] at MyBayside.com were very responsive and got me a replacement cable within a week.
The kit includes a USB-to-GBA cable and a 256Mbit flash card, which will store about 4 modern-sized GBA roms. This is a handy way to keep your precious GBA games safe: connect the GBA to your computer via the cable, launch the included client software, and back up your GBA game to a file on your computer.
Later you can put up to four of these files onto the flash card. This way, if you lose your flash card, you’re only out $100, instead of $200 if you’d lost all four games.
Two other nice features are the ability to back up and restore save games for any game you have saved on the flash card, and the ability to apply cheat codes to games without using an additional piece of hardware.
Somewhere in the twisted mental pathways that make up the tiny brain of my little dog, Tak, the phrase “It’s a trap!” — said in an Admiral Ackbar voice — means “there is a squirrel outside. Go find and kill it now!”
Really.
“It’s a trap!”
And the dog bolts out of the room, off the porch, and over to the nearest tree, hell-bent for some squealy squirrel death.
