Useful Mac Apps Worth Checking Out - April 2022

[Maximara]

Well, I don't remember when I switched to Alfred, but at that time Quicksilver didn't see a new release since years. And lately, after having swapped Alfred for Raycast, I was fed up with all Raycast's attempts to connect to some AWS or similar.
So I thought: well, for realtime-critical usages I anyway quit all the apps that I can, including Raycast. So, why not go back to the good old QS? Then I visit its homepage and - what a beautiful surprise! Quicksilver is actively developed again! 😀🍾
It looks even better than I remember and for the moment I have no problem with crashes or cpu hogging. And it doesn't want to connect to many different internet servers.
Thank you @Maximara for reviving an old flame.

Glad to have helped. Quicksilver became my replacement for DragThing as it was better than anything else around. As for development remember Quicksilver is opensource so anyone could have taken the code and improved it. You likely looked at it when there was a lull (like there was for WINE for a while and still is trying to get it to work on Mx). Side note Wikipedia has an article on the program

 

[28Gauge]

Personally, I've been using Alfred for YEARS, and I've got the Power Pack, too. I'm not a programmer, and I don't know a lot of coding, so I haven't gotten into workflows. My experience with the Alfred community, though, is that the app will do just about anything you ask it to; you just have to know how to ask it.

For example, and this is super basic, I need to go back and remember how to find a file, select, and send it to someone all from within Alfred, and within a few steps. I can be done, but the menu options are LONG, so it takes a bit to navigate to it. But there may be a simpler way?

Anyway, I'm not an Alfred apologist, but I am a longtime user, and when I try Launchbar, I just end up back at Alfred.

All that said, if someone re-launches Quicksilver, I'll move back to that in a minute because the power and the UI of that app was just amazing.

Same here. I started using Alfred when I moved over to Apple from Windows 11 years ago.

 

[litebase]

SpaceKeep on the Mac App Store to save your app workspace. It lets you automatically save and restore app sessions (e.g. open URLs, open documents, window placement).

 

[MacBH928]

I haven't had Quicksilver crash in the entire time I have started using it (about three years ago) and for my configuration it is not a resource hog: 0.0% CPU and 128.5 MB of RAM.

Is QS back in development and functioning now?

 

[Maximara]

Is QS back in development and functioning now?

QS is functional and was updated July 12, 2022

 

[bsmr]

And the fact that Raycast developers are Russians adds even more fuel to my paranoia.

Where did you find those infos?