Little Big Tomatoes

QiiNinja is the tool I use in my work every day to launch and find applications and web pages quickly. It started out of frustration as I was spending more and more time trying to find things in my start menu on my Windows machine. I thought it would be nice to have a tool that would let me start things faster, so I can finish earlier. I started to write this tool in .NET and C# (I feel I need to mention this since I am a computer a geek), got to the working prototype in no time and I felt that this was really helping me.

Then I saw Quicksilver and it was love at first sight. I have never ever experienced something as seamless as this, never ever thought that an application could have had this great of an impact on my daily life. It was a Zen-like moment for me! It even made me to buy an iMac - purchase I will never regret - so I can get to know Quicksilver better. And while I am not hooked on OS X and the rest of the Mac things - I proudly run Windows on my machine - this perfect bond between me and Quicksilver has remained ever since. I thought that I needed to turn this tool of mine into something similar to Quicksilver, so I could experience the "act without doing" on Windows, too!

And here I am trying to fix a bug a day and add one more feature to QiiNinja, so it will be better and better each day, and in the meantime I am learning things that I would never have learnt without it.

This is an amazing journey for me and I am not quite where I want to be yet, but I am slowly getting there. It’s the tool I use every day.

Give it a try, and any feedback, positive or negative, would be appreciated.

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