Quickgold has moved to the BigBoss Cydia Repository! Quickgold is one of my all-time favorite applications. I cited this as one of the reasons to jailbreak your iPhone. I can’t stress enough just how useful this app is.
Due to the way Cydia works, you will need to use the search in Cydia to find it.
What is Quickgold?
Quickgold takes its name from Quicksilver on OSX. When you install it, you get no icon. You launch it by tapping your home button. This is an application launcher, a contacts searcher, web clip launcher, SMS searcher. This thing preindexes your apps, contacts and such so that the search is instantaneous. You get find-as-you type results. It has zero load time since it binds to your home button. It does not contain any daemons and does not suck your battery down.
Let’s take a look at some screen shots. The shot on the left shows Quickgold as you launch it. It remembers your most recent selections as icons so you can just tap home, and tap the icon and go. Or, you can type in the search box (see shot on the right) and get instant results. In this case, I typed bo and it filtered bossprefs to the top. If I had a contact named bob smith, he would be the 2nd choice. Tapping bossprefs launches the app, tapping a contact calls him etc. Its great!
I find this app especially good with categories. Categories takes a while to load up. With the two apps together, you can put all your icons in folders. Then use quickgold to quickly launch something you know of or use category folders when you want to browse.
As I said, this is must-have. I strongly recommend installing it and trying it out.
Tags: app launcher, quickgold, quicksilver
October 21st, 2008 at 4:38 am
Couldn’t agree more, if you do not have this installed, you are short changing your entire iPhone Experience.
I use this to dial all my contacts, bring up all apps, and what i love most about it is the ability to bring up Maps/Powerset from a command line, saves so much time when looking up directions…
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 am
Hi! How do u get that date up to ur taskbar?? Plz give me a hint and u do my day man!
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
That is part of my theme I made. The data is done with the web background and some javascript to grab the data and put it at the absolution position you see.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I c! Thx for ur answer. But can u explain how I can make it to just have the date part into my MonoChrome theme maybe?? It would be very kind of u! Thx again!
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
…or maybe make one for winterboard? Just the date I mean! Possible for u to do that?
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
hi again. It was me, Maz, posting those above! I don´t need to be “Anonymous”. Just didn´t hit the right button. Sorry me.
October 24th, 2008 at 7:00 am
I really, really want to give this a try. However, whenever I install it, It reboots into mobilesubstrate SAFE mode.
I have backgrounder and PYSL installed, which could be a problem I guess. Any ideas?
Thanks for all your suggestions, and am looking forward to the new BossPrefs app!!!
October 31st, 2008 at 9:36 am
can someone help me?
i have quickgold installed on my iphone firmware 2.01,but when i make a call i cannot hang up at all?
is there anyway of ending your call,if so how do you do it,what button do you press?
please advise,
thanks
November 19th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
is the never ending bug fixed yet? (springboard hang)
update. ah just uninstalled 1.3.. guess not :/
February 25th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
I am using iPhone 2G with firmware 2.2.2(5H11), I have installed QuickGold from Cydia. However, even if I pressed the HOME button many times, I cannot see the search screen. I don’t know why and how to fix it. Can anyone tell me how to remove QuickGold and hClipboard from my iPhone.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
You can remove them by just going to Cydia and uninstalling them. Go to the file and hit modify on the top-right of the screen
February 27th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Hi can some one explain how the safari history option works? sometimes it shows the pages i visited and other times it just show the bookmarks . Do I have to have the page open in safari for it to show in quickgold ? does the quickgold history erase when I clear my safari history
March 24th, 2009 at 5:51 am
hi,
even after reinstall i dont get the recent used app list? is there a fix for that? looks great though!!
March 25th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
What keyboard skin you are using shown in the picture?
March 25th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Hm. Quickgold caues crashes for me (occasionally) on adding bookmarks, and consistently on deleting bookmarks. I had to remove it to cope with this (and get a little more memory back.)
April 4th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
ok.. love the app. but how can i uninstall it. i am having some problems. going to cydia and tapping modify only installs it again. and it is not in the modify section to uninstall. what gives?? Has anyone really been able to uninstall this??? Ever??? Really???
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:10 am
It’s so cool that you’re trying to integrate it or make it play nice with Spotlight on OS 3.
December 20th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
HOw to back cydia icon i don t have sbs setings i tried with ifile i got this error dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cydia:
cydia depends on essential; however:
Package essential is not installed.
dpkg: error processing cydia (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
cydia
likewise, attempting to install just essentials will yield:
Unpacking essential (from essential_0-1_iphoneos-arm.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of essential:
essential depends on cydia | com.ripdev.icy; however:
Package cydia is not configured yet.
Package com.ripdev.icy is not installed.
dpkg: error processing essential (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
essential
Can u help me pls is any other way to get back cydia