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Unsanity releases Fruit Menu 3.4.2
I'm sure that many of you old school Mac users out there (like me) miss the "classic" Apple menu. The first two things I did on any Mac I was working with was to add an alias of the hard drive as the top item in the Apple menu, and an alias to the Applications folder as the second (yes, I realize I can do the same thing with the dock, but it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks). Unsanity's Fruit Menu brings some of that functionality back, as it lets you customize your Apple menu under Mac OS X.This current release features a long list of changes, including Finder smart folders, a "recent servers" folder (one of my old favorites) plus various bug fixes. Check it out, and take back your Apple Menu!
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Bill said 10:39AM on 9-22-2005
How exactly do you add items to the Apple Menu in OS X? I've Googled this a bit, and have yet to find someone with a way to do it. I've also poked around the Library and Services folder to see if anything obvious pops up, but so far, nothing.
Anyone?
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Penginkun said 1:17PM on 9-22-2005
As far as I know, FruitMenu is the only way to alter the Apple Menu in MacOS X. Yet another example of Apple "fixing" something that wasn't broken and making it worse in the process. Yay, "progress"!
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token said 1:34PM on 9-22-2005
I miss the old Apple manu less then I miss the Application menu. I've been using X-assist for years to replicate the experience, and it did a great job. SInc eupgrading to Tiger, it is no loner in its proper location in the menu bar. I wish they would update it, but it hasn't been updated since 2003. It seems to me that it is an issue with Spotlight. Does anyone know of something similiar that behaves properly with Tiger?
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jeffh said 9:51AM on 9-23-2005
I used to do the same thing with aliasing the harddrive as the first thing under my apple menu. I think I was faster opening all my applications/documents that way than with the dock in OSX.
Now that OSX makes me keep all my apps in an applications folder I can't find anything (including) fruit menu that doesn't pause horribly long before it can list my applications in a menu.
The only replacement I have found is quicksilver. It's not mousing, but it ends up being pretty fast due to typing speed.
As far as X-assist -- I agree - it was my favorite way to hide apps, and even bring that back to the front! Even better than command-tabbing when I had too many apps open.
RIP X-assist, and folders in the apple menu.
Jeff
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Arik said 8:45AM on 9-28-2005
Hello,
I am searching for a good manual or tutorial for Fruit Menu to get most out of it.
how does the FruitMenu Items Folder work?
Thanks!
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