November
26th, 2008
OSX + Quicksilver + Firefox + Delicious = Bookmark Heaven
Quicksilver is the only OSX application that I couldn’t live without. It’s one of those pieces of software that changes how you accomplish your most frequent tasks. Here’s short list of the things you can do much faster than you could otherwise: open applications, send emails and more. But one of my most frequent actions is to pull up specific web pages that. Normally, I would bookmark these but we can do much better than “normally”.
If you don’t already have Quicksilver installed then go get to know it (here’s an indepth video tutorial). Ok, now that you’re familiar with the basics of using Quicksilver let’s do the second most important thing you can for your computer: install the Delicious addon for Firefox.
Take Quicksilver on a test drive
Now that we’ve got everything we need let’s hook it all up. First, open up Quicksilver and go to the preferences pane. You can do this by pressing command + ,. Once in the preferences pane, select plugins and make sure that Social Bookmarks is checked. Then go to catalog and select custom from the left menu and add Social Bookmarks to the list if it’s not already there.
You can enter your Delicious username and password by clicking the i icon in the lower right of the preferences pane. It’s as easy as that.
See it all in action
Now, open Quicksilver and start typing something in the title of one of the pages you’ve bookmarked. You’ll wonder how you ever lived without Quicksilver, Firefox and Delicious. Below is what I get when type ronpaul:
OSX + Quicksilver + Firefox + Delicious = Bookmark Heaven
