Menu Master for Mac2.0.3

I just want to comment, that this maybe the wonderful program for Mac, but the support from this company is horrible!!! I have purchase this program back in 2009 for my PowerBook G4, and recently I have problem with my computer, so I reinstalled Leopard again, but I need PPC compatible version of Menu Master. I have sent them email two times during the summer (August 2011), I have included my order# and asked if they can send me the latest PPC compatible MM, but there's nobody from these email (unsanity@unsanity.com, feedback@unsanity.com, support@unsanity.com) have replied my question. I had to go for a wild goose chase online to get my self a free copy of the last PPC version of MM from some legacy software site. I have been a fan of Unsanity's haxie products, but I am very disappointed with their support!!!

Does anyone know if this program relies on Rosetta? WindowShade does. I don't see this requirement in the description, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. Thanks in advance.

I cannot figure the complaints - this is for me just a wonderful useful piece of software. I have been using it for very many years on a variety of iBooks MacBooks and now a MB Air; at this stage I am up to OS 10.6.6 - no issues, it just works. As a keyboard junkie, I can in an instant set a keystroke of my own choosing to do most anything sitting in the drop down menus on almost all software. I can use it in Mail, to move items to particular folders, just on a keystroke. I can apply my own keystroke to my favourite Bookmarks in FFox or Safari - there is almost no limit to its usefulness. For me, I much prefer the keyboard to the mouse - so much easier and faster - I rate it as the single most important software utility on my system, and I cannot imagine computing without it.

When most/all Unsanity haxies stopped working with Snow Leopard, I found alternatives for the two I really cared about: Menu Master and FruitMenu. The new Menu Master almost got me to break my pledge to never again install an Unsanity product. Apple's Keyboard Shortcuts feature is very tedious to use (and fails completely if an app has menu items with the same name in different menus). With Lion on the horizon, I'm unwilling to switch back to Unsanity and then wait a year for Lion compatibility.

Unfortunately tech support has disappeared. I have been emailing them for weeks to all their email address and have not gotten a single reply. For that reason I give them a low rating.

you pay for nothing. this functionality included in 10.5-10.6. System Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcuts

With Unsanity's history of taking forever to release versions that are compatible with new OS updates - and with Lion on the near horizon - I wonder how many months it will take them to make a Lion-compatible version. Worse, I wonder if MM is currently requiring Rosetta. I know that WindowShade requires it. If that's the case, this will be even messier because rumor has it that Lion will no longer support Rosetta or PPC applications. Although MM is listed as "Intel," this update seems to suggest that it contains PPC code. Although this takes slightly longer to configure, it's worked just fine for me (and is FREE): http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14352/spark It's definitely much easier than Apple's method of assigning or changing keyboard shortcuts.

I used to be a HUGE Insanity fan but it must be apparent now that they have lost the plot, only update software on a casual basis and I have proved to my self that APE and haxies slow down my system. So although MM is a great idea and I used it for many years I forgot that I also have Quickeys which I first bought in OS System 7 I believe. Although more expensive it does many many things including altering menu commands for individual or all applications. Also it doesn't crash or slow down my system. Well worth the money. Download a demo and give it a try. BTW I dont work for the Quickeys guys lol.

wait. the cat above me is saying he doesn't find much difference in mm's shortcut assignment process to that of a stock mac? DooooD! mm = drop down random menu anywhere & touch the shortcut once. done! mac = 1. open sys prefs 2. keyboard pref 3. scroll list of shortcuts to find a button the make a new one. 4. oh damn - did the app's menu word/command that you 'have' to type in have those little three dots after the word? shit...let me close outta this sys pref window and go look. 5. then you need to put these new shortcuts into a folder list view separated per app or global (boy, that's gunna be confusing) - so now i need to click this button t make an untitled 'new' app folder to store these prefs in the sys prefs window. 6. untitled = type in name of apps or open a dialog box and navigate to the app. 7. then the apps sits and waits for YOU to select it's final easy step to finishing this One painful shortcut and that's to do what you would have done on step two, the final step, in menu master's app and that is............ ..........type the short cut you know, it's very funny to me when an app (or an OS for that matter) makes the process of "shortcut" creation LONG! HA!

I didn't really miss it in Snow since you have the ability to make shortcuts via the preference pane. But I gave it a try and I'm glad it's back! It shows which shortcuts you override when assign one - and it's so easy to use! "Haxies are bad..." I never had any crashs that could be blamed on the haxies I use: Fruitmenu, Menu Master and FontCard (on Tiger and Leo).

This was one of my all-time favorite haxies, but I stopped using it when it stopped working with my system upgrades. Now, it's supposed to work with 10.6. Great! But could someone explain to me what/why there's a requirement for Rosetta? Is that just for the install? Does this mean Rosetta has to be running all the time? How might this impact the rest of my machine and performance? I just don't know enough about OS ju-ju to figure out the implications. If anyone wants to weigh in, I'd love to hear opinions. I'd like to use this again, but the Rosetta thing makes me wary-maybe unnecessarily? What your opinion? Thanks!

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?

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.

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).

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is how you turn off the stupid eye candy behind all the menus in Menu Master 1.4.3b3 (paste this into Terminal): defaults write com.unsanity.menumaster StopSillyEffect -bool YES I got this reply from Unsanity support today. They asked me not to tell anyone about this, which confirms that this childish prank was done on purpose, and quite frankly, they can go f*ck themselves. Some people have work to do and don't have time for this bullsh*t.

Thanks to the new garbage added to every single menu in my system (on *purpose* no less), I've now had to completely disable Menu Master (as there's no way to turn that crap off). As a result, I am now giving it the rating it deserves, and issuing the following warning to anyone who uses this: DO NOT INSTALL MENU MASTER 1.4.3b3. It puts OpenGL/CoreAnimation scenes in EVERY menu and you CAN'T TURN IT OFF. And to top it all off, THERE IS NO WAY TO REVERT TO THE PREVIOUS VERSION. If anyone from Unsanity is reading this: I had respect for you guys until you pulled this crap. This is an important system add-on that I rely on to provide many shortcuts that cannot be configured with the basic Keyboard Shortcuts in System Preferences. I've now had to disable Menu Master completely -- losing all of my custom shortcuts -- just to get rid of this nonsense. What the hell is wrong with you people?

Okay, so the OpenGL and Core Animation views behind all the menus are cool, but how the hell do I turn them off? I'm trying to work here; I expected the new Menu Master beta release was just a routine update to comply with changes in the final version of APE 2.5, but now I have to waste a bunch of time trying to figure out how to turn off this silly eye candy. We're not talking about a silly little add-on I can just turn off; this is a silly feature that affects something I use and rely on every day, wasting enormous amounts of memory and CPU cycles, with no apparent way to disable it. This is a completely brain-dead, irresponsible thing to do as a developer. Idiots.

For those who believe that Unsanity does not respond to inquiries, I suggest that you read the announcement in the yellow box at the top of their blog page that has existed for months now: http://www.unsanity.org/archives/betas/enthusiastic_trepidation.php I own FontCard, FruitMenu, Menu Master, and WindowShade. All of their betas have worked well with Leopard on multiple Mac's.

I'm losing Menu Shortcut all the time with new Pasteboard XT7.01 Xtension paired with Quark 7.31

Nice to see Unsanity return to life... but is there any app that doesn't crash under Leopard with the new haxies installed?

If you're willing to go a few extra steps, you can use Butler (free) in conjunction with MenuMaster to create 1-key modifcations. Create your modifications in a program with MenuMaster, then go into Butler and modify those key combos to work with single key commands of your choosing. For instance, I used MenuMaster to change a command to Command-F1. I then went into Butler and told it to make the ' keystroke the equivalent of Command-F1. Now, I can use either Command-F1 or the ' key to achieve the same effect. Yes, it's a few extra steps, but once it's done, you have what you want. I don't think Apple provides the level of flexibility in modifying key commands that MenuMaster does. I've had zero problems with MenuMaster. It's been delightful to customize my programs as I wish them to work.

You already can change menu key commands in OS X, just go to System Preferences/Keyboard & Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts. Further, you don't have to use key combos, you can change commands to single keys. Wish Menu Master offered a single key option, because honestly MM is a lot easier to use than Apple's preference pane, which makes you type in each Menu command for every application you add and is also kind of unstable.

For a while I was weary of Unsanity's haxies... but then a couple of them in particular are soooooooooo useful(namely this one and FontCard for me) that every once in a while I would re-install them hopring it would work fine and by now I have been using them for many months... never had any trouble I could attribute to them anymore... and like it is said below... this could/should be included in the OS.. that is how useful this is !!!! Whip those menus into shape Masta' ! Whip'em good LoL PS: Unlike a couple of posts below I never lost a shortcut. At least not that I noticed ;-)

Simple as pie. Generally very effective, thought it seems to occasionally (rarely) lose a shortcut. But then it's no big deal to re-do. The new menu accelerator is very handy.

I love this software and was missing it in Intel land. Apple does a horrible job supporting keyboard usage and MM makes it all right with a perfect interface. Just wonderful... it should be a part of OS X.

Superb

Doesn't hold its settings after logging out. If I set File->New Folder in the Finder to cmd-N, Menu Master adds the shortcut but loses it if I log out.

Easy to use, works as stated, and worth every penny.

I used MenuMaster everyday to mark messages as Junk in Eudora. Panther's new keyboard shortcuts feature didn't work because Eudora also has two menu items named Junk and the geature gets confused. And since MM didn't work in Panther I was really deprived. But now I'm back in business. MM is also very useful to temporarily change a 3 modifier command to something mere mortals can remember and press. For 10 bucks you can't go wrong.

To give one example of how useful this can be, Dreamweaver lets you record macros and store them as Menu commands. But it doesn't let you assign keyboard shortcuts to the commands you create. So MM is a real godsend to those of use who use Dreamweaver as our bread-and-butter workhorse. Setting Setting F-keys is an entirely different issue: Apple's failure to provide F-key feature in OS X, such as OS 9 has, MM addresses the issue of software designers failing to provide adequate keyboard shortcuts in their products. These are two very different problems. Regarding F-keys, the first week I upgraded to OS-X I got a copy of Keyboard Maestro, have used it ever since. MM and Fruit Menu are the two most indispensible Haxies of them all.

Ahhhhhhh...back in business.

Gave it a try....will not latch onto Adobe PhotoShop menues. Too bad really, it is straight foreward and easy to use.

To Don Kotelko: It's probably not to much help, since it won't get you your money back, but with Key Xing U can configure the F-keys to launch apps.

Unfortunately, they don't tell you that Menu Master cannot use function keys for shortcuts, which is why i bought it. Remember the good old days when F1=undo, F2 =cut, F3=copy, F4=paste? These now work in very few App's. And Unsanity did not answer my email when i asked if they could add the function keys. Boo...

Again...Unsanity bags the prize with quick response to previous release concerns.

A great idea but it doesn't really work yet. About half the time, the menu shortcuts disappear when the program is exited. This appears to be completely unpredictable.

It's really easy to use, but it doesn't work with Carbon apps and is a bit pricey for what it does. It's good software though.

Unsanity brings back to the MAC that which has been lost in the MAC community for years...a culture of creative and talented developers. Menu Master is one of many of their products that showcases just how good the MAC can be.