Quicksilver

Quicksilver is also known as liquid mercury or metallic mercury. A small spill of quicksilver in a household setting is not regulated by federal law for disposal.

Quicksilver Messenger Service cut great albums and played Fillmore, Winterland, Avalon and Carousel Ballrooms just like Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead. But, they never made it big. All about San Francisco's jam band Quicksilver Messenger Service.

I saw a description of Colibri saying it was the closest thing Windows users have to the Quicksilver (for Mac) launcher. I'm a huge Quicksilver fan, so of course I tried it out. How did I like it? Read on to find out.

ExpressLauncher is a nice shareware application launcher for Mac. I don't like it as much as I like Quicksilver (a free alternative), but it would do in a pinch.

If you've ever used the Quicksilver application launcher for Mac, you'll understand how quickly it can begin to feel like a part of the system, and how lost you feel on a computer without it. Well, a similar program has been released for Linux, and I couldn't be happier!

Quicksilver is a program launcher on steroids for the Mac desktop. While at first glance Quicksilver is a great help with launching applications, it holds much more power just below the surface.

Singer-songwriter Dino Valenti, aka Chet Powers, went from "carnie" beginnings to musical success, writing songs covered by Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Richie Havens, David Crosby, among others. Find out more about 1960s musician Dino Valenti.

Quick Search Box is a nice application launcher, and more. It's always just a keystroke away, and speeds up launching applications or opening documents on Mac OS X.

This week we take a look at metals. We have our definitions, Did You Know, and also a new feature called Fill in the Blank. How much do you know about your history of metals and money? Take a journey with me through the last 120+ years.

We've all loved songs that we've played over and over. But what about the compulsion to listen to just one artist over and over again for years? Chris Rea does that for me.

Secrets is a project that gives Mac users access to preferences for a ton of different applications, preferences the application developers didn't include in their normal preferences area.

Namely is without a doubt the easiest, fastest application launcher I've used for Mac. Whether it's the best for you, or if you'd prefer something like Quicksilver or Butler, is completely a product of your needs, but as an application launcher it's hard to beat.

Sapiens is a fast, easy to use program launcher for Mac. It's shareware, but has enough features that you might even pay the fee instead of another, free, option!

If you're like me, you love utilities that save time and effort. Launchy, a free, open-source keyboard program launcher for Windows, is one of those programs.

OverFlow is a new application launcher for Mac. It's slick, simple to set up and use, but does its shareware fee give you a good value considering the free alternatives? Read my review to find out.

Eddie Aikau is one of the most famous surfers to come from the state of Hawaii, where surfing got its start. Before his tragic death in 1978 Aikau made a name for himself as the king of big wave surfing.