The incompatibility with the File Tagging plugin hasn’t yet been worked out as the source isn’t available. If you’re using the download from B5X, be sure to disable this plugin until the conflict is resolved.

Note that some features (such as the “smart replace” pictured above) require setting the feature level to “developer”. You can do this by running the following two commands, then relaunching:

defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver "Cutting Edge Features" -bool yes
defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver "Feature Level" 3

A few new features and general stability improvements, but mostly a very thorough cleanup of the source code, so you can actually compile it now.

Compilation Instructions

Open Xcode preferences, scroll across to Source Trees and add one with a Setting Name of “QSFrameworks” and path of /Applications/Quicksilver.app/Contents/Frameworks/.

Then unzip Quicksilver.xcodeproj.zip, and open the Quicksilver.xcodeproj project in Xcode. Make sure you set the Active Build Configuration to “Release”. Click the Build button and you’re away.

Note: This build appears to be incompatible with the File Tagging plugin.

It couldn’t be easier. Just drop the file or folder that you want the icon from onto IconGrabber, and choose a place to save it. The extension you choose determines the format, otherwise it defaults to tiff. That’s it!

If you’re a Quicksilver user, you can use the IconGrabber Quicksilver plugin. (It doesn’t require the IconGrabber application.) Once installed, you’ll get a “Save Icon To…” action. Not only can you save the icons of files and directories, you can save the icon of whatever appears in the first “object” pane. This is extremely handy.

Enjoy!

Update:

The Quicksilver plugin is now at version 0.95. Notable changes include:

• Forcing direct object to load icon.
• Indirect object for “Save Icon To…” starts at IconGrabberSaveTo defaults key. Format used is set by the IconGrabberFormat defaults key. Uses png by default.
• “Save Icon As…” action added. Indirect objects have different image formats. Images are saved to the IconGrabberSaveTo defaults key.
• Image files have the IconGrabberAppend key appended to the filename (”-icon” by default).

For example, if you want to use the tiff format for the “Save Icon To…” action, run defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver IconGrabberFormat tiff.

If you want to change the directory the images are generated in by “Save Icon As…”, run defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver IconGrabberSaveTo "~/NewDirectory".

Here’s your answer.

AppleScript can be handy sometimes, but when people release applications like this, and get awards for it, alarm bells should be going off. WallSaver is almost two megabytes in size. For a single command-line.

Just reinforce the point, I wrote another wrapper for the same command in Objective-C. It’s 100 kb, or 60 kb without the icon. It can pause the screensaver (which brings it down to 0 CPU usage), resume it or restart it. And not once will it throw an “AppleScript error” . Download it and see for yourself.

As for the source code, all you need is:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background

Finder info, .DS_Store files, resource forks, debug symbols… They do nothing for the user short of wasting disk space. For the developer, extra bandwidth costs. Do people not realise this is a problem, or are they just too lazy to act? Either way, the solution is simple.

You can clean apps (sometimes to less than half their original size) with some basic commands in the Terminal. But this takes time, and what’s more, Mac users in general have an aversion to the command line. Enter Trimmit.

Trimmit is a svelte utility which takes the pain out of keeping your applications as tight as possible. I use it on Flow each time I seed a build, and I seriously doubt the process could any easier.

Brian Amerige

Trimmit uses superfast UNIX APIs, Apple’s own developer tools, and the rock-solid Cocoa framework to automate your cleaning process. Just drop your built app onto it, maybe configure a few settings, and you’re away. It doesn’t get any easier - or faster.

Other applications claim to save disk space by stripping universal binaries, or removing languages. Trimmit does all of that - and more. But it works. Look at this screenshot from Xslimmer regarding Xcode:

Xslimmer naively believes that only two architectures can exist in any application, but the truth is revealed by Trimmit:

Because Trimmit interacts with the shell (zsh, in fact), no similar application can even come close to it’s level of power, accuracy and performance.

The results speak for themselves.

Use Trimmit to recover disk space that third-party applications so rudely waste.

Go get Trimmit.

Addressed some crashes related to switching applications Fixes for Leopard

If you’re developing plugins for Quicksilver and running Leopard, you may want to download this new release.

I’ll still be using Quicksilver’s Clipboard History (you know how much I love Quicksilver), but this iClip really takes things to a new level in ease of use and appearance. I can talk about it, but it’s probably better if you see it for yourself. Check it out.

Congratulations to the 1Passwd development team for giving us a substitute to Keychain Access that is user friendly, easy to use, and fun!