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I recommend Quicksilver on mac, free and powerful. It lets you to find a lot of stuff (application, contact, email, etc.) and manipulate them (send, forward, print, etc.)

http://qsapp.com/

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Also in that vein on Mac it's worth having a look at Alfred http://alfredapp.com

Alread rocks. You can develop workflows for common groups of tasks and it integrates well with iTunes, 1Password, Terminal and other system actions/apps.

It really does. My computer would be like 30% less usable without it. The file search is particularly amazing.

I second the Quicksilver recommendation. When you combine Quicksilver triggers (keyboard shortcut available regardless of what application you're in) with applescript, and fabric it's very powerful. I have a trigger that that restarts all of my local services using fabric and opens up new terminal windows running tails of the relevant logs.

The Applescript is this if anyone wants to do something similar:

tell application "Terminal" do script "tail -F /somepath/some.log" do script "tail -F /anotherpath/another.log" do script "sudo fab -f '/pathto/fabfile.py' local deploy" activate end tell

Here's a detailed explanation of setting up Triggers:

http://leafraker.com/2007/09/17/how-to-create-a-quicksilver-...

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