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Use MaxMenus!
Authored by: Tastannin on Jan 03, '03 11:30:33AM

I love MaxMenus from Proteron LLC (www.proteron.com) which gives you similiar functionality - you can get your entire Applications folder in a drop down menu from any corner of your screen. Well worth the price for fast access to prefs, documents, apps, etc. without cluttering up your dock. I save my dock for my frequently used apps.

Cheers
Ryan



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Use MaxMenus!
Authored by: bluehz on Jan 05, '03 07:23:04AM

I also find MaxMenu to be the solution I use for launching apps. I created a dir I call Toolbox with various dir within that like Audio, Layout, Multimedia, Graphics, Utilities, etc. then place aliases to appropriate apps within these dirs then make the whole thing available through a hotkey in MaxMenus. Only downside to this and any other aliased method is that the whole OS X community of software is in constant flux - software is updated on a rather frequent basis. Updating software often requires updating the aliases.

I thought it might be feasible to create a cron task using a combo shell script and applescript to "Verify" aliases and recreate as necessary that ran ever night - but as of yet I have not had the time to do it, and I am not even sure its possible. Basically just need a script that would scan the above-mentioned "Toolbox" of aliases - then verify if the original of each item still exists and if not then find an alternative original (e.g. a newer version of the same app).



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