Some people rave and rave about Quicksliver but I haven’t found anything special about until recently. I finally figured out something useful and cool to do with it.

Under 10.3.9, which I still have at work, it acts like Spotlight. It’s an amazingly simple find feature that I bring up with the shortcut Apple+space. It searches mainly Folders, documents and applications and it searchecs fast. I had recently been using Butler to to re-inact Spotlight, but it was much slower.

It’s sad but true. Probably the thing some people like the most about Ask.com is Jeeves and he is retiring.

It’s a forced retirement I think, but still. He can go catch some sun on the beach or look into other career opportunities. He’s got some ideas of what he might do now, but isn’t exactly sure what he’ll do yet.

Goodbye Mr. Jeeves. You’ll be missed.

I’ve had Butler on my machine at work for a while but I really haven’t started using it until about a month ago and am I ever impressed. It has brought a whole new level of productivity to my day and I’m still learning the ins and outs.

Here is a screen shot of my Butler setup.

The first big feature that brought me in was the ability to assign applications to function keys. I have a nice Mac keyboard but F1-F8 & F16 don’t do anything. So I opened up Butler and assigned the function keys to have the following purpose.