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Essentials

1.30

16-Mar-2012

Shortcuts pad that appears with a keystroke.

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Essentials app can easily become your favorite and irreplaceable shortcuts pad. Just press hotkey (default is Ctrl + space, but you can customize it in preferences) and Essentials will appear where ever your mouse cursor is (or not, if you choose so in preferences).

You can use it to:

• quickly launch applications
• access assorted folders, documents and files of any kind
• act as clipboard or "dropbox" for your e-mail messages and text clippings
• make YOUR OWN simple Terminal commands/scripts (that can act as droplets too! :) ...now which app can do that! :D)

Customize it!

• resize groups by more...

What's New

Version 1.30:

• Spacer item type (adds empty space between items)
• support for "note links" from Evernote
• items highlight on mouse over
• bug fixes

Requirements

Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

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Essentials app can easily become your favorite and irreplaceable shortcuts pad. Just press hotkey (default is Ctrl + space, but you can customize it in preferences) and Essentials will appear where ever your mouse cursor is (or not, if you choose so in preferences).

You can use it to:

• quickly launch applications
• access assorted folders, documents and files of any kind
• act as clipboard or "dropbox" for your e-mail messages and text clippings
• make YOUR OWN simple Terminal commands/scripts (that can act as droplets too! :) ...now which app can do that! :D)

Customize it!

• resize groups by holding Command key (⌘) and scroll up or down (or pinch it on trackpad)
• resize items icons (⌘+scroll) and their titles (⌘+⌥+scroll)
• hope this feature makes you say "sweet!"
• group your favorite items in any way you like
• reorder groups and items by holding Command key and dragging groups/items to desired position
• mark items AND groups with colors from pop-up menu
• you can finally make your dock look fancy by not overloading it with so many icons

Essentials is simply essential because:

• you can keep your favorite/frequently used items really accessible and nearby
• it has smooth and intuitive UI
• it is responsive and fast
• it can easily blend like it is part of the OS X

Version 1.30:

• Spacer item type (adds empty space between items)
• support for "note links" from Evernote
• items highlight on mouse over
• bug fixes

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