Daniel Miessler discusses the benefit of using Quicksilver, one of the mandatory mac applications, for searching the web - instead of using your browser. So you are in any app and you want to search for something online? Use Quicksilver. I blog from Textmate, so if I need to search for something on google (or elsewhere) - Quicksilver does it for me.
Its a very simple process to use as described by Daniel on his blog entry. What I will show here is how easy it is to enable the built in Quicksilver Web Searches. I will assume you have already installed Quicksilver.
- First launch quicksilver with your defined trigger
- Press Command (⌘) + comma to open your quicksilver preferences, then select the Catalog Icon
- From the Catalog window, tick the box against the “Web Searches” row, and then press the Refresh Button
- The number of catalog entries for the web searches should be some number greater than zero
You can now close the quicksilver window - Launch quicksilver with your defined trigger, and type the name of a search engine in, i.e. wikipedia - tab through to the third field and type in your search text - press Enter - Et Voilà!
You can try these example keywords when launching your quicksilver window: youtube, wikipedia, google, amazon and there are many more to try!
