Most know quicksilver as a glorified application launcher, but for many it’s so much more. Â Writing up some examples of all the functionality that’s available in the app could take me weeks, so I thought it would be a good idea to shed some light on “triggers”. Â Have you ever wanted to have a keyboard shortcut that works across all your applications? Â Say change a track in iTunes without have to actually jump into iTunes to make the change? Â I was toying with writing some Apple script today to do it, but then I was quickly reminded over AIM that triggers exist in Quicksilver that let you do exactly that. Â Upside is Quicksilver is free and you don’t have to pay for some third part application. Â The downside? Â None, really.
- Launch Quicksilver
- Open the Preferences
- Click on the Plugins Tab
- Make sure the iTunes plugin is listed and checked. Â If not you need to install the plugins in this window
- Click on the Triggers tab at the top.
- This is where you can add your own new triggers, or use some of the ones listed. Â We’ll use the iTunes triggers. Â Click on iTunes
- Put Check Marks next to the global keyboard shortcuts (triggers) you want to activate.
- I made sure the Next Song trigger had a check beside it because I wanted to activate that one.
- Click the Trigger column in the row of the short cut you want to add.
- Click the edit button from the slider window then push the keys you want to associate with the shortcut.
- Done. Â Now you can change your iTunes track from any application.
