TUAW's Daily Mac App: MenuPop
Have you ever wished you had more power from your context menu? That you could have all the menu bar options at your cursor without having to switch your focus to the top of the screen and the menu bar itself?
MenuPop shoehorns all of the menu bar options into a contextual app dependent upon a pop-up menu that appears right next to your cursor. The app allows you to control any function in virtually any program from a menu that can be activated with an alternate mouse click or a keyboard shortcut. If you're one of the increasing numbers of dual-screen, large-monitor users, having all of the options the menu bar easily accessible via mouse keep your focus on the task at hand and speeds up common operations for non-keyboard jockeys.
The keyboard shortcut or mouse button is user customizable, although those with a two-button mouse will be limited to the keyboard shortcut. Text size is user controllable as well, with the option to show the Apple and Application menus, too.
MenuPop is available for US$4.99 from the Mac App Store.Share
Have you ever wished you had more power from your context menu? That you could have all the menu bar options at your cursor without...
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The more things change… This is borrowed from NeXTSTEP. It's definitely got some merit if it integrates properly with the rest of the environment.
What happens to all the extra icons that populate the menubar these days? Does the normal menu bar stay around? The screenshots don't shot anything at the top of the screen. So, no clock?
It just puts the menus at the cursor, not the menu bar itself. Everything else stays the same.
May 17 2011 at 6:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyA great feature from the Amiga days. Love it!
May 16 2011 at 9:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat Rachel said.
Much better UI stuff in so many ways. Let's not forget pervasive drag/drop/copy/paste between applications that made it so easy to interwork with different apps each good at a part of the job.
And all created so long ago that there probably aren't any still valid patents to worry about...
i had to uninstall this program - it made my MBP(2011 model)'s mouse and trackpad completely unresponsive. I had to reboot (ctrl-F2 to access the Apple menu using keyboard) in safe mode and disable it.
May 16 2011 at 6:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyUnlucky, I didn't have an issue on my 2011 15" MBP. Maybe it was a software conflict, you got anything unusual running?
May 17 2011 at 6:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replybut that's how RISC OS used to work! I've got to have that...
Back in the day, when Mac OS had no X, the OS desktop environment that had solid-dragging and resizing windows, proportional scrollbars, anti-aliased fonts, a bar along the bottom where your applications' icons sat (as well as devices like trash cans and file systems...) Had no menubar, and had no menus under the titlebars of windows, but when you clicked on the middle mouse button over a window... this is what you got.
In those days I hated macs. I grew to love them only as they gained the features we had in RISC OS back then. :-)
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