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Access applications via a menubar addition
Authored by: lukeandrews on Jul 12, '06 07:39:32AM
If the menubar thing works for you, great, but you could also just drag your Applications folder to the dock and it would accomplish the same thing. Control/right-click on it to open in context and see a list of all your apps.

Alternatively, you could use something like Quicksilver or Launchbar which personally I find a lot more efficient than staring at a long list of apps -- just type what you need and go!

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Access applications via a menubar addition
Authored by: ars on Jul 12, '06 09:23:53AM

Putting your application folder in the dock does not work, if you have many applications! In my case I can see only application from A through I. For that reason I have been using Himmelbar for quite some time. I used Butler fist, but it would take longer to load at start-up, so I switched to Himmelbar.



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Access applications via a menubar addition
Authored by: gidds on Jul 12, '06 11:21:32AM
That's what subfolders are for.

Apple's own apps work best directly in /Applications (else they don't always get updated properly), but for everything else, subfolders are a pretty good way to organise things. I have /Applications/Audio, /Applications/Net, /Applications/Visual, /Applications/Games, and several others. Apple have even given you a start with /Applications/Utilities, and (in some cases) folders for developer tools, AppleWorks, iWork.

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Access applications via a menubar addition
Authored by: DocMan on Jul 12, '06 11:26:40AM

Why can't you just scroll down below the letter I?

I have a "Favorites" folder that has aliases to my Applications Folder, Utilities, Folder, and servers that I frequently use. I put this Favorites folder in the dock and I can get to any of it's contents by right clicking on it. The contextual menu scrolls up and down normally.

This is easy stuff. Not worth buying a program when I can do it for free.

Doc



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Access applications via a menubar addition
Authored by: zane on Jul 13, '06 09:46:25PM

Actually, that App mentioned in the hint *is* free.



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Favorites folder in Dock
Authored by: MJCube on Jul 17, '06 08:24:31AM

This is my method too and it has the advantage of showing icons next to the names. I still have my old Favorites folder and within it I keep an Apps sub-folder of about 20 aliases – apps I use every once in a while but less frequently than the ones in my Dock. That Apps sub-folder is in my Dock.

(NB. I originally wrote this comment with commas in 3 places but the preview was truncated anywhere I had a comma!)



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Access applications via a menubar addition
Authored by: Gigacorpse on Jul 12, '06 02:43:42PM

I think Quicksilver and Launchbar are overkill if all you want is an application launcher. I think Namely works well if all you want is application launching.



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Some people must like the Windows Start menu...
Authored by: hamarkus on Jul 12, '06 02:52:46PM
Maybe I am just terrible at memorizing and finding names but one of the things I hate about Windows is the start menu and Himmelbar seems work in a similar way. Staring at a long list of app names and trying to find the one I want seems to me not to be a very intuitive way. And don't get me started about subfolders. Starting an app should be a click or a double-click, not going down several menus and 'losing' the right menu with the mouse half of the time.
I have about twenty apps permanently in the Dock (most of them running all the time) plus about five to ten additional running apps that only remain in the Dock as long as I run them. In addition, I use one DropDrawer in the bottom left corner, which expands on a mouse-over and displays the icons of about 40 further apps. In the bottom right corner I have another drawer with about 80 lesser apps. Running apps are grey-out in the drawers.

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