Skylight

Decent counterpart for quicksilver

In the beginning there was AppRocket. AppRocket was an application launcher. AppRocket was good - in fact it was pretty much perfect. It indexed without slowing the computer down and it was practically psychic when it came to accurately predicting what application I wanted to run, just based on a couple characters.

Then along came Vista, and it turned out that AppRocket wasn't compatible with Vista - the installer refused to even install on Vista. So I learned to get used to the search on the new Vista start menu. It was great at indexing and searched quickly but wasn't as good as AppRocket at predicting what I wanted to do.

Candy labs then released MediaTrain. I was hoping for effectively a Vista compatible AppRocket, but MediaTrain was a completely different kind of application - it was for indexing media instead of launching applications (the observant among you will have noticed that from the names of the applications). While that was all well and good, I never really used the media features of AppRocket, let alone an application dedicated to media alone. I guess I just use the computer to run applications more than to access media.

Then completely out of the blue (as far as I was concerned), CandyLabs released a beta of SkyLight. CandyLabs seems to have split the media indexing and application launching features of AppRocket into two different applications, and SkyLight was the one I really wanted!

It's not perfect - as an early beta it's got a few bugs and isn't feature complete yet, but it seems to have that psychic predictive ability that AppRocket had, so I'm happy :D