Ever the bourgeoning geek, I’ve been testing out Mac applications. I’ve gone through roughly ten in the past two days during classes; mostly because there are a limited number of times I can sit through a lecture on the Inherent Evils of Capitalism 101 or a crash-course into feminism, but also because computers are mighty powerful and mine might as well do what I want it to do, easily, and in as few clicks or keystrokes as possible.

I downloaded Launchbar, which made me giggle with pleasure. But soon I started getting a popup warning me that I had a limited number of uses unless I registered/paid. I ignored it and kept on using Launchbar to open applications, find files, and open URLs, among it’s many other uses.

Tonight I was searching the web in an attempt to find out how to get a keyboard shortcut for iTunes in order to skip to the next song without my having to be on the application itself. I came across this post on Scott McDaniel’s blog and gave Quicksilver a try.

While the steps to get it to handle iTunes shortcuts have changed a bit with the recent version (much easier now), Quicksilver certainly kicks much ass, doing everything Launchbar was doing for me, plus some.

I’m a relatively new Mac convert, but if you’re on a Mac and haven’t tried Quicksilver, do so and be happy.