How to Supercharge All Your Favorite Webapps with ifttt. Top 10 Quicksilver Plug-ins. Great article! Thanks. Couple things: The dictionary services menu action doesn't work for me either (I'm running Tiger and QS ß53 [you can get ß by hitting Option-S, ß is like "ss" in German IIRC]). Dictionary module itself works, but if I hit Cmd-Q, it quits Quicksilver—have to keep that in mind. I've got the iTunes plugin installed and I've had it around for a while now, but it doesn't recognize the album artwork for anything I've ripped since enabling that plugin—I ripped a few CDs and DVDs to my iTunes library over the weekend, and they have the appropriate album art, but nothing I've added since. Oh, and instead of the Firefox plugin (eew, Fx for Mac is gross! The first plugin I install is always the cube interface—I've got mine customized to go with my desktop.
~truggl. Hack Attack: A beginner's guide to Quicksilver. Stop Procrastinating and Dash Through Tasks with a Timer. Use a Timer as a Productivity Booster and Sanity Minder. I'd love to use a timer; it'd help me a lot with my studying. But seeing as I'm deaf, I'd need a visual timer - is there a timer that blinks when time's up? Flagged @DaphneCabeal: You asked in the right place! I researched light-alert timers earlier this year. Here are a few options for you to check out: The Polder Traffic Light Kitchen Timer is a novel timer. It has a high visibility display, audio alerts, and a visual alert system using a traffic signal pattern (green-yellow-red). The Learning Resources Time Tracker also uses the traffic light method and is, as you would guess by looking at it's over-sized and colorful design, intended for use with children. This Visual Alarm Timer from Sper Scientific is more in line with a traditional stick-it-to-the-fridge egg timer.
If you want to go crazy with multiple alerts linked to different colors this Multi-Station Timer, intended for use in a lab or commercial kitchen, has you covered. Hope that helps! Lifehacker rocks! Focus booster - home; try the pomodoro technique.