Sparrowhawk
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NuKit
Going to the dev's website also confirms that the current version is 1.1.5, so maybe the 1.2 announcement was a little premature.
Hopefully this will get updated correctly soon.
I am hoping that the 1.2 release fixes the keyboard/right click freeze that the previous reviewer mentioned and which I have experienced on several occasions too.
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However, I have the commercial 1.1.5 version installed for a while and doing a check for updates manually tells me I am up to date.
Unless they have decided to make it only available through the app store now which would seem unfair as I bought my license via MacZot and so do could not update that way without paying up for a new license. Hopefully the 1.2 update will appear via the non-App Store route at some stage.
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"A Mac App Store 1.2 version is quite the same as a non-MAS 1.1.5 version."
I have no idea why they decided on this numbering scheme as it just causes confusion, but I thought I'd pass on the info as it seems that we are in effect still fully up to date with 1.1.5
MenuEverywhere
I was just wondering whether you had any plans to make a style option for the secondary bar such that the background colour of the buttons is transparent with no border whatsoever, so that they look like the primary bar, and also when selected the background of that item is deep blue, again just like the primary bar?
By the way, great new icon! :)
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MenuEverywhere
A few of requests:
- could you offer an option to make it mimic the look and feel of the standard OS X menu bar? I have to be honest and say that the current options jar a little. (incidentally, your style option in prefs is greyed out of window menus are disable, and yet it applies to the top of screen menu bar too. I think the prefs page may need a rejig)
- When not hidden, could you make apps that are positioned at the top of the screen push down below it (and resize vertically if necessary to keep all the window on screen, for example if they are maximised)
- include the Apple menu if possible
In other words, like SecondBar does it. That way I can drop SB and have just ME as my secondary monitor utility rather than a combination of both.
Many thanks for your constant improvements of this excellent utility.
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Apple Menu: oops! Thanks for pointing that out, my mistake indeed.
And having re-read my initial comment, I am ashamed at the number of typos in there! I really must proof-read my posts!
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When using the top-of-screen secondary menu bar and you have it hidden, it appears too soon, ie before you touch the top of the screen. Which means that if you are trying to use the window traffic light controls, unless you are very quick ME appears over the top of the controls and you cannot click them.
Could you make the hidden menu bar only appear when the Y coordinate is at the very top edge of the screen please?
Thanks :)
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Cornerstone
Sparrowhawk reviewed on 25 Oct 2010
It's an odd thing to say about a Subversion client, but Cornerstone is a thing of great beauty. It's an utter joy to use, and although I still do do use svn at the command line as well, that is more due to the fact that I am already in Terminal doing something else.
This and 1Password are probably the two apps that I find most impressive on the Mac, from a point of view of functionality, ease of use and aesthetics.
My only criticism (and it's not app-related) would be that the website blog had not been updated since March before this release. I actually thought Zennaware had shut up shop or at least put Cornerstone on hold. Please Zennaware, keep us informed of progress more regularly!
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Can anyone help me out and point me to the right menu/button? If it is missing, I'll send Zennaware a change request.
(I've searched the bundled help file and no joy.
Back to the Terminal! ;)
BeebEm for the Mac
Going to the web site also seems to suggest that 3.3a is indeed the latest version?
Have I missed something?
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SecondBar
Although it is not as pretty as the OS X native menu bar, I really don't care - it works! My sincere thanks to the developer.
One small niggle: when maximizing a window on the secondary monitor, SecondBar pushes it down below the new menu bar (good) but does not reduce the window height sufficiently so that the resize handle is partially hidden.
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MenuEverywhere
Sparrowhawk reviewed on 05 Aug 2010
Four stars only so far because:
a) I'd like the option for the top level menus to appear horizontally across the top of the window, rather than having to click on Menu, then the menu I wanted
b) if the window you want to get the menu for is at the very top of the screen, ME opens upwards rather than offsetting downwards, so that you cannot see the menu button. Clicking on the thin bottom border which is still visible leads to the menu opening in the primary display rather than the secondary display. I'm hope the author will address this in an upcoming version
I've bought my version already - I suspect it will pay for itself in increased productivity (I have a very wide secondary monitor, so moving across to the primary every time I wanted to click a menu was getting tiresome!)
I am still waiting for somebody to write an app that mirrors the menu bar at the top of an external monitor
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I'm surprised I never saw that before. Many thanks for the pointer.
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WineBottler
Bottler installed IE6 cleanly, and it now sits there as just another app in my /Applications folder.
There are a few small glitches (although they may well be my fault), for example despite setting the homepage to my dev server, it always defaults to something like httpd:/// (three slashes). Apart from that though, it seems robust enough and I have trashed my Windows partition freeing up valuable space on my MacBook.
Tip: You need to run the bottle installer from an admin account.
Tip2: requires X11 - I think this is now installed as standard on SL?
Tested on 10.6.2 32-bit