10 Windows Alternatives to Quicksilver

I live and die by SlickRun, an absolutely fabulous and light weight launcher. I have the keyboard set to win key + Q.

This is nice but anything like this for Linux?? Especially Ubuntu.

Launchy all the way. By far the best of the list.

Unfortunately Quicksilver is still king though by a long shot.

David: I’m the author of slimKEYS. I did look at this avenue, as I was very interested in the PortableApps project. Would you expect slimKEYS/the launcher app to scan all the target computer’s files, or just files on the USB key?

slimKEYS does work from a USB key, but it requires .NET 2.0 on the host machine.

I miss PhraseExpress on the list which actually puts everything together in the slickest form and it is FREE:

* Autotext/AutoCorrection

* Launch programs or open documents triggered by text shortcuts

* Organizes text snippets

* Networking capabilities with Client/Server architecture

And it has by far the smalles footprint.

Simon

I’d suggest you look at Direct Access. It uses abbreviations to expand text and launch applications. You can use it to search the web (Google, Wikipedia, dictionary, imdb…)

The new version supports Windows Vista and has macros and instant search.

Check it out at http://www.nagarsoft.com

You’re not listing Keybreeze?! This is the closest application I’ve found to Quicksilver. It has almost as many features and it’s light-weight.

Whoops. Forgot the link. The product is called Enso, and it can be downloaded here:

http://humanized.com/

In response to the Linux question:

gnome-do is excellent (though not quite quicksilver).
google desktop search is available for linux.

Try http://uzoft.com/vDesk.aspx