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DESCRIPTION
Application Wizard provides easy access to your applications, documents and pictures.
Application Wizard lets you quickly open, quit, and make applications active, turn single application mode on and quit background-only applications and the Finder.
With Application Wizard you can also navigate volumes and frequently used folders to quickly open enclosed items, easily access favorite files, recent folders, Address Book contacts and your iPhoto or Aperture library, preview images, music, movies and PDF files, copy pictures and display slideshows, view the metadata associated with files and check system memory usage.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.4:
- The incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard have been solved. In addition to that, the Application Wizard preference pane is now 64-bit capable on Snow Leopard.
- On Macs with a 64-bit processor and Snow Leopard, the Quit and Switch menus now mark 32-bit applications instead of 64-bit applications.
- On Macs with a 64-bit processor and Snow Leopard, applications can be opened in 32-bit mode directly from the Open menu by selecting them and pressing the Control key. In addition to that, Application Wizard lets you customize applications so that they always open in 32-bit mode.
- On Snow Leopard, Application Wizard calculates file and disk sizes using the decimal system (1 KB = 1,000 bytes, 1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes, ... ).
- The Login Window item can now be added to the Special menu, so that you can quickly lock your screen while you are away from your computer.
- Besides moving files to the Trash and copying them to the desktop, the Special menu lets you now move or copy files to any folder or disk. To move or copy a file, select it in the Special menu and choose the Move to or Copy to command, respectively.
- Application Wizard lets you now disable previews for specific file types. To disable previews for one or more file types, select the Do not preview files with extension checkbox in the Previews panel and enter the corresponding extensions.
- On Mac OS X 10.5 or later, the configuration of hot keys has been revised so that Unicode keyboards and the F17, F18, F19 keys are now supported. In addition to that, keypad keys appear in square brackets [ ] in the General pane of the Application Wizard preferences and hot keys are now disabled in full screen mode.
- On Mac OS X 10.5 or later, the management of the Application Wizard login item has been revised to solve possible incompatibilities.
- A bug that prevented paths from being displayed in the Configure Special Menu dialog despite the Info button was turned on has been fixed.
- A bug that could cause Application Wizard to crash under particular circumstances when the depth of folders added to the Open menu was changed has been fixed.
- Several other minor bugs have been fixed and some other minor improvements have been introduced.
- Minimum required system version is now Mac OS X 10.4.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Developer: | MaBaSoft |
| Downloads: | 23,216 |
| - Version d/l: | 620 |
| Utilities: | System |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 30 Sep 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $19.00 |
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| Application Wizard User Reviews (7 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 11 2009 |
DOOBIEXX Awesome app that definitely deserves it's full price, operating a lot faster now. Thank you for not crippiling the app and please keep us going with updates. I highly recommend anyone looking for this sort of app to check them all and check this last... I don't think you will be switching back going to another. Definitely worth the try. Cheers!
(Version 2.3.4) | |
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 | Sep 30 2009 |
LARRYMCJ I could not have said it better!
(Version 2.4) | |
| May 20 2009 |
ROBOTANK I'm very impressed with this so far. There are so many application switcher and launcher utilities out there, but this is by far the most configurable and feature-rich contextual menu-based one that I've seen. I love the ability to map the menus to global hot keys. I use Steer Mouse to map these keys to extra buttons on my Logitech MX Revolution, so Application Wizard's menus can be brought up with a single click anywhere on the screen. Also, I really appreciate the way the developer has set up the trial version of this app. You can use it for 15 days with no restrictions and no nag screens. This is how shareware should be demoed--it allows you to really evaluate all the features of the app for a reasonable time period with the added bonus of not being harassed for money until you've had a chance to decide if you want to spend it. I'll probably buy this before the trial period is over.
(Version 2.3.3) | |
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| Nov 28 2008 |
ESPIRIDION It's interesting to see other people's suggestions. I have Butler and even donated money for it a long time ago. For me it has not been a Application Wizard replacement. I tried Quicksilver a few times, but it's no longer in my system. I just checked aLunch. Looks like a nice and free application launcher, but Application Wizard does quite a bit more than that. You can navigate through volumes and folders, preview files, and more. I mainly use it to launch and quit multiple applications at once, and to organize "sets" of applications depending of the tasks I'm going to do and the applications I need. For example, I have an "Office" set, "Internet" set, "Email" set, etc. Price is reasonable and many updates have been frequent and free. Highly recommended.
(Version 2.3.3) | |
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| Jan 18 2007 |
MARK_CAIRNS Absolutely superb as always. Is rock solid on everything from an old speed-bumped G4 to a new Mac Pro, all running 10.38 at time of writing. Couldn't live without it now.
(Version 2.1) | |
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| Dec 20 2005 |
MARK_CAIRNS Loved the original QuitCSM control strip for OS9 for many years; this evolution is just on another level. MabaSoft just know how to write these invaluable little applications and the QUIT ALL command in this one is something I couldn't live without; but then he's bundled all those other new features from v1.4 onwards; v1.5 adds some more things from the QuitCSM days but it's even better now. Money well spent!
(Version 1.5) | |
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| Nov 18 2003 |
EPC I'm glad to see this update. Some previous versions stopped working on my computer, so I'm glad to see this update. The ability to quit background-only applications is a plus. For example, since installing Panther I can't quit PTH Pasteboard, and now I can with Application Wizard. I also like the ability to quit many applications at once, plus the quick access to many items (e.g., applications, system preferences, etc.) I have been using other programs that have similar functionality, but prefer Application Wizard's unobtrusive nature, and quick rendering of menus/submenus.
(Version 1.3) | |
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| Feb 11 2003 |
CHUCKWAGEN Great features on this first release. Ability to "quit all", and handy submenus are convenient. However, buttons are somewhat slow to appear when hid, and even at the bigger size are hard to select. Very stable on my iBook.
(Version 1.0) | |
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