- MaxMenus has been discontinued
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Developer
Proteron, LLC
MaxMenus adds customizable menus to the corners of any display. The menus simplify the locating and launching of applications, documents, volumes, preferences, recent items, photos, music playlists and much, much more.
What's New
Version 1.6 (beta 2):
- (really) fixed the ability to grab items from menus (press ⌘-G with the mouse held over a menu item to drag that item to other applications)
- misc fixes
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| Downloads:19,942 |
| Version Downloads:3,617 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:08 Aug 2010 |
| Platform:PPC 64 / PPC 32 / Intel 64 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $29.95 |
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MaxMenus adds customizable menus to the corners of any display. The menus simplify the locating and launching of applications, documents, volumes, preferences, recent items, photos, music playlists and much, much more.
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Aargl reviewed on 18 Nov 2013
The only glitch is "menubar empty area" commands that don't work, you have to assign a shortcut to make them appear under your pointer.
Still downloadable at cnet. ;-)
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"Install using the installer, then right click on the installer. Show package Contents. Navigate to Contents>Resources. Drag the MaxMenus app to your applications folder.
System Preferences>Users&Groups. Put MaxMenus app (from Applications folder) into the Login items list." Makes sense - app is buried in a "wrapper" to form the prefpane.
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This is one "another" site. It may not be the same one that DeaconJohn is keeping to himself.
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Harv reviewed on 04 Aug 2012
Indeed MM grows a bit long in the tooth, and as the developer(s) seem to have retired, I can but hope they sell their rights/code and allow others to carry on with their good works.
I have tried the competition, and have yet to find anything that is suitable.
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Xco reviewed on 05 Jul 2012
Any word out there about Mountain Lion?
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Back to MaxMenus, with fingers crossed for its future!
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To do this right click the preference pane, select "Show Package Contents", and then navigate to Contents > Resources and drag the MaxMenus.app file to your startup items in your User Preferences screen.
Enjoy!
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MaxMenus back in the day was perfect for my workflow, I could barely live without it on my mac. Sadly it's been a shadow of it's former self, little or no updates, zero new features and the Dev's website; well thats another issue entirely.
I thank the makers of MaxMenus for the effort, and I know that some may be single persons that are developing various softwares like this one all on their own and I applaud them for that. However, it makes Dev's look bad and gives the whole idea of "shareware" a bad name when they seem to abandon their programing efforts especially when making it a commercial product. I have kept MaxMenu's installed from version to version of Mac OS in hopes of seeing some improvements but haven't seen anything. I've never enabled it under 10.6 and when 10.7 hits mac app store, I guess I'll give it a try (maybe). I do miss using it a lot and hope that all is well with the developer (I know life can get in the way if your single programer making a product) and maybe one day we'll see a revamped version that will be the envy of all OS X utilities. Personally I've tried others and the structure of this utility seems to fit me far better than any other.
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i only use the empty bar menu for my menu
and no chance :-(
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It's also good news because the Proteron site is just a home page -- everything else gets a 404.
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Ronl reviewed on 06 Feb 2011
What a difference!
Loads __much__ faster at startup and You Control doesn't hang my 10.6.6 system up the way MM has been doing for at least a year.
Also it has lots of features MM does not have.
MM was good in its time, but it hasn't kept up.
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Foulger reviewed on 21 Jan 2011
Mccbaar reviewed on 20 Jan 2011
Everything is possible in this world.
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Ronl reviewed on 19 Oct 2010
Click on the link to their site and you will see that their contact and support pages do NOT exist!
And their last user manual was 'updated' in 2002.
Pathetic!
I just bought this thru the MU discount, but the product's web site has been down for several days now. Emails returned, too. Not sure what is going on.
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