Doh!!!

found it!

FrankBurns

I am not seeing this app within Cydia. What is the Source?

FrankBurns

I just installed it and it works pretty smoothly... i'm impressed and i can see myself using this alot.

however i don't think this app is worthy to be called Quicksilver for iPhone yet. it needs to be alot more customizable. Looking at feature request page, many people wants to be able to choose what they are searching (like categories in Quicksilver). Some wants to search only contacts, and some wants to be able to search music and video as well... this could be solved by having a setting page and let the users pick and choose which categories they want quickgold to search thru.

personally i would like to be able to add more keyword search. and when searching for contacts, i don't like how it only has option to either call or send sms... I have ipod touch and neither of those functions is supported....

Sang

Very nice!

Works better than having another launcher on the springboard just to launch hidden apps, which was starting to get really annoying. It even supports foreign language inputs, something even the real Quicksilver can't do. I'm sold.

Would have been really nice if the search didn't require an absolute sequaltial string value though like in the real Quicksilver. It could possibly make things alot faster if I could just type "WB" for Winterboard, instead of "Win" and then having to nav through all the applications and notes and whatever else element in my phone that happened to have "Win" somewhere within itself to get found by the search.

Calls could be made faster with this way as well. The ol' Treo use to have this function, where you type in the first letters of the first and last name of whom you're trying to reach and the contact list gets drilled down accordingly to those two letters. I miss that damn function alot...

Alicemagic

hopefully we some active development with this app. it's only been out for a little while now right? so hopefully there's many improvements to come in the near future..

Sang

What I'd kill for is a little trainablity. Sort the most recently launched items first, like Quicksilver.

t3knomanser

I might have to jailbreak again. Messed up my Phone.app before, which was teh sux.

ddb123

Had this for a month or so... excellent implementation! It's come a long way, really. It used to be I had to hold the home button down, or hit it multiple times, to get it to come up, but now it's almost instantaneous.

Avielus

Giving credit where it's due, though I'll never own an iPhone, that app looks awesome

burnblue

Funnily enough, I could never get used to Quicksilver, so I had to uninstall it. :(

However, this just TOTALLY rocks on and in the house!!

Just for this, I think I'll go give QS another try...

hardman.ethan

I love this application! I hide my use-once-a-week icons with poof and use Quickgold when I want to launch them. It is also faster to call someone with Quickgold than to open contacts and browse for the contact. IMHO Apple should hire these people and incorporate the feature into the official OS.

eleazar

This app alone is worth jailbreaking the iPhone for. Of course it doesn't rival QuickSilver on the desktop, but for the purpose of the iPhone, I think it's perfect. Need to make a call? Type a couple letters of your contact's name and then tap the result. Compare this to opening the Phone app, clicking the Contacts tab, scrolling to find the contact in the rather obtusely designed Contacts app. Then you tap the contact and finally tap the phone number. Sending a text message or email takes just a tap more, but remains flawlessly simple and easy. Forget about having sort and resort your home screen to make it at least a little easier to find that app you need to use. Just type the name and you're there.

I agree with the previous commenter. With QuickGold, using my iPhone now finally feels natural and unburdensome; this should be a builtin iPhone feature.

chrisdpratt

I've been using it for a while and recommend it as well.

Swiftshark

nice iPhone app, it works pretty well on my iPhone, thanks lifehacker. Found a nice DVD to iPhone converter, share it here.

maccolar

I wonder... does the iPod touch have speech recognition?
I'd love to have a handheld speech parsing device to interface with the rest of my gadgets wirelessly.

xenobyte72

Should I really jailbreak my iPod touch for this?

Webran61

I'd rather see "for jailbreak only" in the subject to avoid wasting time reading about an app I can't use.

dvsjr

Don't jailbreak just for this app. Do it for the themes, offline maps, NES emulator, PSX emulator, sound effects, and support for more a/v playback types. Oh, and I cannot leave out SSH access.

A3sthetix

Great stuff.

== Petit Launch on Palm
== launchy on Windows/Linux
== GNOME-DO on Linux
== QuickSilver on OS X

Terry Wang

i love quickgold. it really beats having to scroll through tons of screens to launch my apps.

vsolis

I love Quicksilver but QuickGold is more like Spotlight in OS X rather than Quicksilver. Like @eleazar I use poof to hide all but 1 page of most used apps and then access the rest via QuickGold. This is a much better experience than roaming through pages of apps. It would be nice to have some of the improvements mentioned, especially the ability to only pull up contacts, apps etc. if you know what you want. When I type app it pulls up about 10 randomly selected apps. Maybe all search results are truncated?

simplynutty

@A3sthetix: Bingo...Cydia + App Store = 1 Happy iPhone.

x3r0

@Sang: thanks for your comments. (I am the dev btw.) I completely realize that QuickGold yet isn't even 1% as smart as QuickSilver is :) but it's getting there slowly but surely. I just started it as a really really fast launcher, and that is my first goal. Gradually a lot more customization will come in, but I want to make sure it always stays REALLY fast and does its basic function well.

NadineCastor

I am not seeing it on Cydia. Anyone know the source?

CalvertWhiles