If you’re lucky enough to be on a Mac, then you’ve probably had the pleasure of using Quicksilver, an application launcher, document searcher, and general computing-life enhancer.

Well, I just found Colibri, an application for Windows that does many of the same things. It makes launching an application as easy as typing the first few letters of its name. You can do Google search right from your desktop (note: you can do this will Google Desktop too, but it’s much slower). You can even control your volume settings without taking your hands off the keyboard.

The app is still very new, and is missing some of the features that make Quicksilver great (like the ability to learn keystrokes that stand for certain applications, for example, typing FF to launch Firefox). But it looks very well thought-out, installation is clean and easy, and since I bet it will progress very quickly.
Update: Just discovered that Colibri actually does learn common keystrokes, so you can do things like typing FF to launch Firefox. Yay!

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