Search Yahoo! Maps:

You can use the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ Google search to take you straight to the Yahoo! map of most locations – just be sure to enter the addresses components in standard (street city state zip) order.
You can also create a “Im feeling lucky trigger” like the one detailed in the advanced tips below.
Advanced

Power Tips
The Comma Trick : Selecting multiple items

- Invoke Quicksilver
- Use QS to navigate to your ~/Documents folder (or wherever a bunch of items you want to select are)
- Type “,” (that’s a comma)
- The icon in the pane should “move up” a little and the icon for the selected item now appears in miniature format below its name
- Select another file (again, any small file will do), and, again, type “,”
- The icon for the item you added should now also appear next to the icon for the first item
- Repeat steps 3-4 a couple more times on random small documents, or files.
- When you’re done making your collection, TAB over to the second pane, and type to get the action you want such as “open” or “open with” or “move to” etc.
- TAB over to the third pane in case you have a argument in the second pane such as “move to” and type the action you require and hit return and voila, the action applies to all the files you chose!

(important: The Comma Trick only works if you’ve chosen “Advanced Features: Beta” in “Preferences: Application” and the “Primer” or “Bezel” command interface in “Preferences > Appearance”—switch if you need to and restart QS) ( Tip,courtesy Merlin Mann of 43 Folders )

Command selection trigger

There are some default triggers that come with Quicksilver that are very useful. Like the command selection trigger for example.
Here is how to set it up.

- Open the trigger preferences pane and select Quicksilver from the drop down list.
- In the triggers listed for Quicksilver check the box next to “command window with selection” and assign a keyboard shortcut for it.
- Now select a file in the Finder window and press the just assigned shortcut and voila, the command selection window comes up with the selected file!

Quicksilver: Append to a text file from anywhere

Here is a method to add “to do” or whatever you want to add to a notes.txt file already created anywhere you like.

- Invoke QS
- Hit “.” to start typing in the variable input field
- Type “to do”
- Tab to the next pane
- Type “APP” (or whatever it takes to pull up “Append Text To…”)
- Tab to the next pane
- Type “Notes” or surf to your running “Notes.txt” file
- Hit enter

You’re done
Optionally, note that after you’ve appended this, the window autopops with the destination file (“Notes.txt”) ready to open for inspection.

Hint: You can add carriage returns in the input field by typing option-return.
Hint: To place your new text at the beginning of a txt document, rather than the end, type “PREP” (or whatever it takes to pull up “Prepend Text To…”) in step 5 above.

Also, Append/Prepend is now available inbeta mode only.

( Tip,courtesy Merlin Mann of 43 Folders )

Quicksilver: Arrow Into Web Pages

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- Invoke Quicksilver (ctrl-spacebar by default)
- Type the first few letter of the title of a web page
- When you’ve found the page you want, right-arrow into the page
- Give it a second to think
- Quicksilver will return a list of all the links in that web page
- Select one of the links and hit ENTER to visit the page.

Pretty neat. Uses the built-in HTML kit to fetch an updated version of the page on demand.

( Tip,courtesy Merlin Mann of 43 Folders )

Calculate

To use Quicksilver as a calculator is to have the calculator plugin installed. Then do the following steps,

- Type ”=” in the first pane and it automatically changes into input mode wherein you can enter values. Notice how the action “calculate” automagically appears in the second pane.
- Type the numbers you want to calculate “after” the ”=” sign.
- Press Return and you have the calculated value in the first pane!

Setting up a Google web search Trigger

- Go to www.google.com and enter the charatcters “***” ( 3 stars that is) into the search box and hit enter. When google has finished searching, remember to copy the URL from the browsers address bar and paste it into a document, say Textedit. Now add the terms ” qss- ” to the front of the url so that it becomes a bookmark. For example if the url at the end of the search was “http://www.google.com” then the bookmark would be “qss-http://www.google.com“
- Open the Quicksilver preferences window.
- Select triggers so that you are presented with the trigger preferences pane.
- Click on the small ”+” near the bottom to add a new trigger.

- when the window drops down just paste the copied bookmark into the first pane.
- You will see that the second pane automatically becomes “search for”. Also note how the third pane has a text icon in the picture above.
(Sometimes when you set up this trigger you may find that there is some text in the third pane, as shown in the picture below,in which case the trigger will not work.
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In such cases, we have to get rid of the text, so close all quicksilver windows and invoke the Quicksilver bezel.If there was text in the third pane while setting up the trigger then quicksilver displays the text as shown below.

Now tab over to the third pane and go into text mode by typing ”.” and delete the text in the third pane and then press Return (Very important). Then repeat the steps of setting up a trigger from the preferences pane as described above. You will find that there will not be any text in the third pane, but only a text icon or sometimes nothing at all, thats allright!.Now that we have got rid of the text, follow the steps detailed below)

- Press Return(DO NOT TAB into any other pane or do anything else as you will not get it right. Do not even click on anything else)
- Now select the trigger from the menu and and assign a shortcut (F5 for example) for it by double clicking next to the key icon. Close the quiclsilver window.
- Press the key shortcut and see the google search shortcut come to life!

Remember you can do the same thing with other sites like yahoo, MSN , ebay , etc. For more such URL’s, look at the web search list

Duplicate the Current Tab in Safari

(Please note that proxy objects must be enabled, and Safari set to “Open links from applications in a new tab”)

- Create a new trigger, and set it to be enabled only in Safari. Command + T is a good shortcut.

- For the arguments, use “Current Web Page” –> “Open URL With” –> Safari.

- Voila! This does an excellent job of mimicking a similar Firefox extension. Note that this can also be extended to use with Camino.

Text Mode

- Invoke Quicksilver and then,
- Enter text mode by typing ”.”
- Exit text mode by typing “Esc”

Change default action

If you want to change the default action assosciated with a file or folder, you may do so by right clicking on the wanted default action and selecting it from the drop down menu, as shown in the picture below.

Printing with Quicksilver

- Add ~/Library/Printers/ to your Quicksilver catalog.
- Select any document you want to print with Quicksilver (b42 tip: select anything and hit command-escape).
- Tab into “action” and select “open with…” and tab into the third field.
- Type the name of your printer. Hit Enter.
- Watch your file come out of the printer, and get right back to what you were doing.
Tip courtesy http://metacarpal.net/blog/

Remote control iTunes

Here is how you can remote control iTunes using Quicksilver.

- Make sure you’re using the latest version of Quicksilver, with the Apple Mail and Backpack plugins installed Make sure Mail.app is setup properly. You can check this simply by firing up the client and try sending some emails.
- Next, you need to configure the email actions. In Quicksilver preferences, you need to enable the “Email Item… (Send Directly)” action, for the “Email Addresses”, “Text” and “Files & Folders” types.
- Check this works – fire up quicksilver, hit “.” and type some text in. Then hit Tab, and select the “Email Item… (Send Directly)” action and hit tab again – finally press “.” and type in the destination (or select an address form your address book). If that works out, you’re ready to try sending email to backpack.
- Log in to Backpack to get your developer key. Go to your Account page, and towards the bottom, you’ll see an option to show your developer key.
- In the Catalog preferences for Quicksilver, click the “+” button to add a new catalog – select “Backpack Pages” from the drop down. This will be the catalog that will work out how to talk to our Backpack pages. Your newly added catalog will be under “Custom”. Select it, then click the “i” icon in the bottom right. Put your username and developer key in.
- To try out your integration, bring up quicksilver and enter “note» sometext”. Hit tab and select “Email Item… (Send To)”, tab again and bring up the backpack page you want to send the note to, hit enter and enjoy!

Browse all files

While browsing files in quicksilver if the alt key is held down then even the hidden files are displayed.

How to make a gesture that executes a paste and match style.

This explains how to write an applescript that will press a key for you from quicksilver, in this case, I’m making an applescript that will execute a paste and match style (command-shift-option-v). The trigger for this will be a a gesture (in the shape of a ‘v’)

1. FIND THE KEYCODE FOR THE KEY YOU WANT TO PRESS Download and run Ukelele. It will tell you the key code of the key you want to press.

In Ukelele, make a New File, then go to Keyboard:Show Key Code

Press any Key and the window will show you the keycode for that window. (Eg I press ‘v’ key and it tells me ‘9′)

2. MAKE AN APPLESCRIPT TO PRESS THAT KEY Open ’script editor’ (in Applications/Applescript folder) Make a new script and paste in the following:

tell application “System Events” key code 9 using {command down,shift down,option down} end tell

where 9 is the code you found above using Ukelele if you only want to press one key without modifiers you use:

tell application “System Events” key code 9 end tell

for one modifier you use:

tell application “System Events” key code 9 using command down end tell

save applescript as, and give it a name like “keypress cmd-shift-opt v’

3. ADD THE APPLESCRIPT AS A TRIGGER TO QUICKSILVER

open trigger pref pane. Command R to refresh index and pick up the script you just made add new trigger (click on + button) type filename above (‘pasteand’ will be enough) find your script, tab and make sure the action is run script. press return to select. now edit the trigger you want to use, keyboard or mouse or gesture, I set this one for a gesture in a v shape.

Now I gesture a ‘v’ and it does a paste and match style.