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DESCRIPTION
XMenu adds one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar. They give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, files, and snippets. Launch any application or insert text snippets or URLs into your email messages or Pages documents with a single menu choice.
- No need for configuration
- Six predefined folders: Applications, Developer Applications, Home, Documents, User-Defined, and Snippets
- Keeps all your snippets and text modules handy
- Operates as a menu extra, requires no hacks or extensions
- Ideal replacement for Dock folders in Mac OS X 10.5
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.9:
- NEW ‘Snippets’ menu (‘~/Library/Application Support/XSnippets/’) to easily insert documents and files into the current application. Supports e.g. plain and rich text files, text clippings and Internet locations.
- NEW Right clicking on an XMenu item in the menu bar opens the alternate menu to access preferences etc.
- Improved User-defined folder is now ‘~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/’, existing folder is automatically moved to the new location
- Improved Menu icons updated.
- Improved Internal enhancements.
- Fixed Showing info (by pressing the Command modifier key) in Finder did not work if the file name contained quotes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| XMenu User Reviews (38 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Dec 8 2009 |
MLBKXBX Great app. I would like if the selection of "menu items" were a bit more dynamic than it is right now though. You have a few static predefined items, and only one "user-defined" item. Add a list widget and let people add as many folders they want to instead of only one directory for that purpose. It would be nice if menu bar items could be assigned custom icons, and also they were were spring-loaded! It would be nice if the text mode had a font setting. Or if one at least could unset the "bold" typeface of the font. This method of accessing the file system is highly addictive! Don't try it! Once you try try it, you can never go back... ;)
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 | Dec 2 2009 |
CD MILLER Remember folks: Command-Click (Coverleaf key) on an XMenu menu title in the menu bar to show the preferences and configuration options. I love XMenu, but after a year or so of usage I forgot how to configure it and had to spend about an hour to find the magic "Command-Click on the menu title" description. So...for a truly stellar app, for 2.0 please add a handy "options" submenu at the bottom of each XMENU menu, that shows the Command-click menu as a submenu. Then we would all find it when looking. In other words, take a hint from the MacOS 10.5 doc folders, which also have an "options" menu when shown in "list" mode.
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 | Oct 7 2009 |
MAX GAAV I tried several launchers and contextual menu modifiers and this one has become my favorite, even over FinderPop that I used for years. Virtually the same functionality as FinderPop but also other features like the very handy 'snippets'. It takes a bit time to study the settings etc. but in the end that's just a small hurdle to take for such a wonderfull workflow improvement tool. Thank you Devon! But also one feature request for the developers: when fully used, XMenu places no less than six icons in the menubar. Why not just one, with preference settings for a contextual menu in which one or more can be activated? Laptops don't have that much space in the menubar and there are also other apps that place icons there...
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| Sep 12 2009 |
FORMICA This is truly one of the best apps out there, and it's FREE! Thanks a bunch, Devon Tech.!
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| Jul 8 2009 |
JAZZYGUY Best Version ! Everything Devon Technologies makes is top notch!
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| Jul 8 2009 |
DOOBIEXX I thought this would be the end of xmenu! Thank you so much for keeping it free and updated!! Thank you.
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| Jul 8 2009 |
STEVEN GOODHEART This is one of the most useful free programs that I own. The improved interface and preferences, and the new ability to insert Snippets, are fantastic. XMenu drills down long folder hierarchies with no delay, and if you customize the user-defined folder with files and folders, or aliases of them, you have incredibly easy and fast access to just about anything you need. And, it's free!
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| Feb 6 2009 |
Message edited. Contents transferred below. Sorry, cannot delete this particular one.
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| Nov 20 2008 |
It is apparently running (according to Activity Monitor), but I cannot see a menubar icon for XMenu so I can access it or set preferences. | |
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 | Feb 6 2009 |
DESIGN-Q To access the pref. 'alt-cmd-click' on the (XMenu) folder shown on the menubar (if they are shown, in your case). Mind though, I cannot access the pref. myself on PowerBook G4 10.5.6 but it's running i.e. I can access/run through the folders Forget about my comment above in regard accessing the pref. I can do it after all. The window was just obscured by other windows i.e. it does not jump in front when you are accessing it from other appl./when other windows are open.
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| Mar 19 2008 |
DANA SUTTON Since FriutMenu broke under Leopard and it has taken Unsanity so long to develop even a buggy beta, I've shopped around for a replacement. After trying various alternatives, I settled on XMenu as the best, largely because it runs as an application rather than any kind of a system mod., and so is completely non-invasive. In the XMenu folder in User>Library I I've set up a bunch of folders (utilities, applications, documents, a nested folder containng my URLs, one for my current work project, etc.) so I have a fantastic amount of stuff at my fingertips. Then, just to make things even better, I used KeyboardMaestro to assign an F-key to the XMenu folder, now I can access all my stuff either by pulling down the menu or from my keyboard. All this took a couple of hours of creating and storing aliases, but in the end I had set up an insanely great storage/navigation system with no worries about destabilizing my system or surviving future major OS upgrades. This, as I say, involved some work, but it didn't cost me a penny.
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