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DESCRIPTION
Menu Master is a haxie that allows you to change or remove menu shortcut keys in any application with ease. It takes about 15 seconds to learn how to use Menu Master, and saves you lots of time later because you can use the shortcuts you defined and do not bother remembering which ones the developer of the software invented for you.
Additionally, you can set shortcuts to any menu item that had no shortcuts, or remove shortcuts from menu items.
Note: Menu Accelerator is a 10.4+ only feature.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.4.3:
- Note: The price of Menu Master has increased from $10 to $12. (The new price will be effective on Wednesday, the 27th)
- This is a free update.
- Potentially addressed an issue with the Script Menu Menu Extra if you have different items that only appeared when a specific application was frontmost.
- Added support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard v10.5 and later.
- Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Menu Master now requires Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger v10.4.11 or later.
- No longer loads Objective-C dynamically.
- Removed calls to many deprecated APIs.
- No longer scans menu items if their titles are NULL or zero length due to an issue cause by the inefficiency of Cocoa menus.
- Potentially addressed an issue with Adobe applications losing custom menu shortcuts when switching documents or not listing all their menu items in the Menu Accelerator window. This required a lot more work than it should have.
- Includes APE 2.5.
- Includes SCR 1.5.
- Plea: If you've bought Menu Master around three years ago and have never paid for it again (we've not charged for an update of Menu Master) we kindly ask if you wouldn't mind paying a voluntary upgrade fee. This fee is completely voluntary, is not required, and Menu Master itself has no knowledge of whether you have volunteered or not. There are no perks to volunteer and we only ask that only registered users volunteer. To volunteer, please go to http://www.unsanity.com/store/add/menumaster_vuf
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
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| Developer: | Unsanity LLC |
| Downloads: | 13,361 |
| - Version d/l: | 1,327 |
| Utilities: | System |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 26 Aug 2008 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $12.00 |
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| Menu Master User Reviews (34 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 12 2009 |
WARD I'll be updating to Snow Leopard next week, and I know I'll be leaving Menu Master behind. Menu Master seems unique in its one-step technique for customizing menu shortcuts (for the applications where it works). OS X System Prefs Keyboard Shortcuts and QuicKeys 4 are possible alternatives, but both are quite tedious. Has anyone found an effective replacement for Menu Master?
(Version 1.4.3) | |
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| Sep 12 2009 |
EASER To a limited ability, you can do some of this with System Preferences Keyboard settings, even on an application-by-application basis. But it depends. I've found that it will not always accept some of the keyboard commands I want to use. And it's a definite pain to have to type in the exact wording of the program's menu item. Any changes made, by the way, appear to take place in the program's plist file in the User's Library Preferences folder. That, at least, has been handy when I've had to wipe my drive clean and reinstall. I keep a backup of all those preferences files. I tried the Keyboard Maestro record method, but it's too limited. For instance, I wanted to set up a command where a particular keystroke would let me move back and forth between tabs in Path Finder. (I wanted a different key command than what was already in PF.) But I found that what I recorded was not some kind of universal change. It worked only for switching back and forth between the two specific tabs I had originally recorded. I've also seen people mention Spark, and I've tinkered with that, but I can't find a way to make changes for a single program. In that regard, I've already been using Butler for the same purpose. But those changes are system wide. So, no, I wish I had something better. I've offered something of a bounty to anyone who can come up with an alternative windowshading program; you might check for that over here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6485 Maybe if we can find someone who's willing to take on the project under the terms I've proposed, we can get someone to do something like Menu Master as well.
(Version 1.4.3) | |
| Apr 20 2009 |
MARK_CAIRNS So when oh when will Unsanity start devoting resources to this must-have application again? The Adobe CS3 bug (Illustrator menus etc. with the sticky menus and the mouse pointer) in Tiger OSX 10.4.11 made this unusable and I had to begrudingly uninstall it. To say I miss it from my workflow would be an understatement. The 1.48 beta is just a joke. The implementation on Leopard OSX 10.56 is also incredibly buggy and I'm absolutely dying here without, especially with the industry software like Quark and CS3 being used every day.
(Version 1.4.3) | |
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| Aug 26 2008 |
DANA SUTTON Launch KM. Select Macros panel. Click the + square at the foot of the page. This brings up the Macro Editor window. Click record. Navigate to the menu item of your choice (if this involves recording extra steps as KM observes you, you can manually remove them from the list). Choose "Save" Then go to "New Trigger > Hot Key" and select a keyboard command, one that doesn't conflict with one you already have. Save that too, give your Macro a name, and you're good to go. As far as I know, this feature works with all versions of KM so you don't need the latest and the greatest to achieve . Note: this allows you to create new keyboard equivalents for menu commands, but it doesn't allow you to assign new keyboard equivalents for existing ones or remove preexisting ones (although you can do these things from within programs with such ones as Office and Dreamweaver).
(Version 1.4.3b4) | |
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| Aug 27 2008 |
EASER Thanks!
(Version 1.4.3) | |
| Aug 26 2008 |
MARK_CAIRNS "Silliness"? what? huh? Any chance of Unsanity getting off the drugs and onto some Red Bull by speaking plain English for the rest of us bought-and-paid-for MenuMaster users to understand what is actually fixed or improved instead of talking this nonsense.
(Version 1.4.3b4) | |
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| Aug 26 2008 |
EASER Can you please tell me which macro in KM I use to do this? I'm still using version 2, so it might not be in that version. Thanks.
(Version 1.4.3b4) | |
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| Aug 25 2008 |
DANA SUTTON I used to depend on Menu Master. Then it broke under Leopard and it has taken, what is it, ten months for the developer even to produce a beta? Since I had relied on MM for my work, I was forced to look around for a substitute,and I discovered that the recorded Macro feature of Keyboard Maestro allowed me to assign new keyboard equivalents to menu commands. Keyboard Maestro is a program, not a system-modifying hack, so it's a lot more benign, and I don't have to worry about going through this hassle again because of Menu Master possibly breaking with Snow Leopard or some other future version of OSX. I've found a very satisfactory substitute for Fruit Menu, too, so I don't think I'll be having any more to do with Haxies.
(Version 1.4.3b4) | |
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| Aug 25 2008 |
SMTIPS P.S. I think software writers should be like...shot...for charging money for BETA versions....you want people to PAY YOU to TEST your unfinished product? Geezus...get real...trouble is some people are dum enough to actually do it.
(Version 1.4.3b4) | |
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| Aug 26 2008 |
SIGIL I agree with smtips. Customers paying for a Beta... How does that make any sense?
(Version 1.4.3b4) | |
| Aug 25 2008 |
SMTIPS Opinion: Haxies bad. Fact: Won't be trying this I wish there was something that wasn't a haxie that could do similar. Won't be trying it after the comments that they told the guy how to "fix" the issue but not to tell other people. Dishonesty...lies. Not good. Stupidity on the dev's part. "Silly" to add "silliness" that can't be easily disabled to something that people rely on as a TOOL. Unsanity is stupid.
(Version 1.4.3b4) | |
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 | Aug 25 2008 |
F451 Aren't people going little overboard? This is a BETA, the developer is definitively creative, so why not let her have a bit of fun now and then? Measures have been taken to turn off the Easter egg. And you can do your own thing too.
(Version 1.4.3b4) | |
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| Aug 25 2008 |
EASER I'm confused by all of this "silly" stuff. The version I have installed is 1.4.3b2; guess I (luckily) missed 3b3. I didn't see it in 3b2, although one commetn on VersionTracker suggests it was added to that version. (It's not on mine.) Today, on both MacUpdate and VT, the update is listed as 3b3, yet it downloaded a 3b4 dmg file. I don't plan to install it. For heaven's sake, are there not any other programmers out there who can provide decent, competitive products? Please? You'd get our money.
(Version 1.4.3b3) | |
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