"the shelf" - an os x thing or a quicksilver thing?

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hi guys... i was watching a quicksilver tutorial on how to use some of the more advanced features, and there was a lot of talk about how quicksilver can interract with a feature called the "shelf"...

here is the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DYb56xxnh4

is this shelf a standard feature cuz i cant find anything about it on google and it looks really useful... i'm not using quicksilver anymore so i hope its not a built-into-quicksilver feature...

anyone know?
 
Mr_White said:
Aww, you're cheating on us, Sootylad ;) :(

Apparently this is "The Shelf" :p
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noooo that aint the shelf, look at my youtube link above...

i aint cheating on ocuk... i was getting grief for asking too many questions about my new mac so i left for a bit (and yes i am sootylad on other forums :)) - but then i though screw it, i've been on OcUK for a good 8 years and i've got every right to post here so i came back ;)

that macforums site is crap, people dont answer you and when they do it aint all that helpful ;)

but yeah, still really wanna know about this shelf...
 
it is a quicksilver thing, but the operation was too buggy for me to use on a regular basis (thats the whole of qs, not just the shelf...)

for example, whenever i closed an app that had been opened by quicksilver, the shelf would pop up :confused: - considering i had some mildly personal stuff there like some of my less important passwords... i wasn't very happy about that...

all in all, i will end up using it again, when its been around a bit longer and isn't as buggy ;)
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
it is a quicksilver thing, but the operation was too buggy for me to use on a regular basis (thats the whole of qs, not just the shelf...)

for example, whenever i closed an app that had been opened by quicksilver, the shelf would pop up :confused: - considering i had some mildly personal stuff there like some of my less important passwords... i wasn't very happy about that...

all in all, i will end up using it again, when its been around a bit longer and isn't as buggy ;)
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don't expect anything quicksilver-related to get less buggy. the developer has pretty much explicitly said as much.

have a look at an app called 1Password
 
I don't find QuickSilver buggy, in fact it is one of the best applications for OS X.

For example I can use it to feed my Internet Banking number to Safari in about 3 key-presses. :cool:

Real glad it gained Leopard support though...
 
it is definitely buggy, but on the flipside i agree its an amazing app, which is why the bugginess is so frustrating!

if it was a crap app you'd just uninstall it and get on with things, but its mint so you want to stick it on and endure the crap... but like i said i'm stepping back for a bit in the hope it will neaten up...

personally i reckon the developer should charge a small fee to make it worth his while ploughing time in, i'd happy pay say £10 for a bug-free quicksilver and with the amount of people that use it at 10 quid a pop he wouldn't know what hit him :)
 
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it probably wouldn't phase him - he was headhunted by Google, I believe. Hence the opening of Quicksilver and the lack of development time
 
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