Quicksilver, Quicksilver, Quicksilver, Quicksilver, Quicksilver, Quicksilver!

Man that app rocks. I get seriously lost when I sit down at a Mac without it installed, or at a Windows box at all: Command-space, erm, where's the launcher?

It gets so bad that I often forget how to launch apps otherwise. I'll find myself thinking "Hrm, no Quicksilver. No problem, I'll just install it. Let's fire up Safari..." command-space "Oh, wait. Where's the mouse?"

-J

Command - Space opens the Spotlight-Box for me, my primary launcher (for apps not in the Dock, though). No big deal.

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Amen to that.

Once in a rare while QS crashes on me though... and I find my self trying to restart it: ctrl-space -- uh...

btw, on windows there is launchy, not nearly as powerful as QS but for basics it's handy.

Your rant at the beginning reminds me of a monkey... that's it! Steve Balmer!