Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?

Re:Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac? by swombat on Sunday May 17, 2009 @12:35PM (#613588)

QuickSilver is quicker than Spotlight. I don't want to have to wait a few seconds for Spotlight to find stuff... QuickSilver is usually instantaneous or very near it. Also, it doesn't depend on the spotlight indexing, so this means I can disable the spotlight indexing jobs which have a nasty habit of using up 100% of my CPU at random times while I'm doing something.

Also, I haven't had any problems with crashes or anything like that... works great here.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac? by KirinDave on Sunday May 17, 2009 @05:46PM (#613979)

Spotlight is, generally, only slow the first time you search.

Usually it's as fast as LaunchBar except for the very first time it is used. It has a reputation of being slow from 10.4 that is no longer justified.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac? by swombat on Monday May 18, 2009 @04:05AM (#614618)

I've found that it is consistently a few seconds slower. It's not slow as such, just slower than QuickSilver. And when it come to app launching, these few seconds kill, imho.

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Re:Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac? by quizbiz on Sunday May 17, 2009 @01:03PM (#613629)

How do you disable spotlight indexing?

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Re:Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac? by chris24 on Sunday May 17, 2009 @01:11PM (#613635)

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200711022159128...

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