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LaunchBar also allows you to send files in e-mail to people and browse your iTunes library directly.

Am I the only one who likes Butler more than Quicksilver?

I used to love Quicksilver, it really presents an innovative way to communicate with my machine. Unfortunately in daily use I found it very unstable (I have to Force Quit it every now and then) and really slow with bigger catalog sizes. Moreover it looks unmaintained, there haven't been a single update since I started to use it more than a year ago. It's great that the project has became open source, I just hope it wasn't too late.

I considered Quicksilver indispensable for some time. But, I was surprised to find that once I could launch programs, contacts and do calculations with Spotlight in 10.5, all of the sudden all the other things I used Quicksilver for (and there were quite a few) no longer seemed worth price of 40MB RAM. Add to this occasional stability issues and I am no longer a user.

However, I am very much looking forward to what Nicholas Jitkoff has next.

I was having repeated frozen windows, apps not responding. Needed frequent force quits, restarts. After reading alpha & geira's comments here, I realized the glitches could be from Quicksilver. Uninstalled Quicksilver, then did another restart. No more problems.

When uninstalling apps, remember to delete application support files & preference files. It's best to do this manually. Uninstaller apps often leave files behind. Check in Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support; Macintosh HD > Library > Preferences; Macintosh HD > Users > username > Library > Application Support; Macintosh HD > Users > username > Library > Preferences.

I have found that spotlight in Leopard works just as well for basic application launching

just one thing to say... i feel handicapped on any mac which doesnt have this... and i mean, really handicapped... disable spotlight, forget those itunes controllers, forget menubar utilities, forget calc, forget image converter, forget anything... quicksilver ROCKS!

Hi, just to let you guys know; there are alpha releases being built at: http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/ -- these are alphas, but to be honest, they work significantly better under Leopard, many many bugs are fixed. a3 needs manual hacking to get working, but it is worth it IMO.

Most overrated mac app out there. launching apps from stackz (grid) in leopard is so much faster. Quicksilver also has major stability issues that should be fixed.