Useful Contextual Menu Plug-ins

For George (post 6): Symlinks and aliases are abstractly similar but with a couple of interesting quirks in the details of implementation and behavior. A symlink is basically just a file that contains a path to another file and is understood by the shell(s) to be a reference. But it is, effectively, a hard-coded path. If it crosses file systems and the volume isn't mounted exactly the same next time it will break. An alias will default to path, but also tracks the volume robustly and the file reference number (think inode) on the volume so it can track actual files (even when they move) rather than simply referencing other directory entries.

For ciprol (post 5): As George mentioned, what FileCutter adds is the ability to _cut_ a file, with the resulting paste being a move rather than a duplication. There's also, as you might have inferred, the ability to copy a file and then paste a reference to it into the destination.

I just found this one and it is awesome. ImageViewerCMPlugin, http://www.astrok-software.com/en/imageviewer.html

Allows you to view all the images within a directory and its subdirectories, supporting dozens of formats. Get around Apple's 100 image limit with the Finder "View as Slideshow" feature as well as offers tons of other functionality like full EXIF support.

If you put the Microsoft fonts into /Library/Fonts—rather than the in the same relative location in a user's home directory—the Office First Run utility leaves them there and doesn't copy them to subsequent home directories.

This has been documented, and last I knew, was in the official deployment guide—the Office Resource Kit (ORK)—available at MacTopia.

PhotoTool, listed directly above is amazing. It's one of the few programs that does lossless jpeg rotates, allows you to batch rename files (faster than the similar automator script I sometimes use for other filetypes), view EXIF data, etc etc.

[ http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/file_utils.html ]
The FileUtil from abracode (the On My Command people) allows you to copy filepath and set creator, but does one thing that I used to hate opening terminal to do - TOUCH. If you've been downloading .sit or .zip files and the folders they generate seem empty, usually you have to touch them to update the directories. This does it in a CMM, which is a grea time saver.

[ http://www.pixture.com/software/macosx.php ]
Pixture used to be king of the 32pixel icons.... and they created my favorite CMM back in like the 10.1 days - FinderICON CM. It allows you to copy, paste, and clear icons with a right-click instead of having to go to get info (yes,  + C does copy the icon these days...) which is pretty cool for a GUI junkie like me. You can also create a STOCK, or a bank of icons you use a lot to paste from and copy to. very very cool.

Also, lets not forget automator CMMs. I have scripts to set desktop BG (like in windows) from selected image, batch file rename, edit IPTC data, un/mount disks and set prefs based on mounted disks, create email with selected files attached, send to blog, etc etc... Lots of fun.

PhototoolCM 2.0
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21447

PhotoCM is a contextual menu plugin for Mac OS X. It helps you to manage/organize JPEG photo image created by digital cameras.
Rotating an image without having to open an application is just great.

Not yet available for intel macs.

"For instance, Microsoft Office 2004 likes to install 80MB of fonts for each user but I don't want dozens of user profiles each with 80MB of fonts on my workstations,"

I just open word once, so it installs the fonts locally, then remove "Do Fonts" from "Microsoft Office 2004/Office folder" and that stops the Fonts being installed again.

People! This is the best CM plug-in I have found, QuickImage CM 2.4.
View any image by right clicking, you must try it, you will not be sorry!
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11532

I used OMCedit and OnMyCommand. it took me about 10 minutes to add "arrange By" and "view" commands like we used to have in Mac OS 9 to the finder's contextual shortcut menus. I didn't even have to write any code. All i did was record the actions using script editor and paste them into OMCEdit, with some minor tweaking.

http://justanotherspectator.com/shared/albums/on%20my%20command/arrange%20by.png
http://justanotherspectator.com/shared/albums/on%20my%20command/view.png

This is not really a CM plugin. However, I think it's related.

Diablotin let you decide which CM plugin to show (both user and system), so to make your CM uncluttered.

http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Diablotin.html

folderglance - it really a must have app for Mac OSX and it would fall under contextual menu category

http://home.online.no/~stoedle/YLS/YLS-products/FolderGlance.html
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