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MisFox gives you control of helper apps
If you remember the good old days of OS 9... well, maybe they weren't all that good, but at least it was easy (via the Internet control panel) to set all your helper applications, which would launch whenever you hit a mailto: or ftp: link. Nowadays you've got to dig into Mail.app just to change your default email application, and that's just a pain in the neck. What can solve this sticky situation? MisFox can.
Just revised to a Universal Binary, system preference panel-savvy, version 2-iy version 2, MisFox lets you set your default helpers and file mappings for all sorts of URLs, extensions and protocols. I've used it since way back and there's nothing handier for getting your auto-launching ducks in a row. And free? Such a deal.
Update: For those who asked about setting Google Reader as the default handler for RSS feeds (as indicated in the alluring yet somewhat misleading screenshot above), see here.
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