Starting Skitch using Quicksilver
If you’re lucky enough to have got hold of an invite for the Skitch beta, chances are that you’re loving it more than you could ever love your own children. For those who don’t know, it’s an amazing screenshot taking application. It has a nice feature that allows you to press command - shift - 5 to bring up the cross hairs to take a screenshot whenever the application is running. You can of course have Skitch starting when you start your mac, but this does take up resources on your computer (not much admittedly, but it still takes some). What if there was a way to assign command - shift - 5 to start up Skitch and then switch to the cross hairs mode…?
But there is! Using my favourite application of all time, Quicksilver. Here’s what you need to do.
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