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How to spring clean "Open With" duplicates

by Shawn "Doc" Boyd (Mar 25th, 2013)

If you use your Mac for any period of time, you will find the need to open a document with a different program other than the one set as default. The "Open With" menu appears in the Finder whenever you right-click or control-click on the icon of a document. The "Open With" command is designed ...

TUAW Tip: Freshening Up 'Recommended Applications'

by Robert Palmer (Aug 19th, 2008)

Reader Julius wrote in with an annoying problem: Whenever he tries to open a file by selecting "Other" from the "Open With" contextual menu item in the Finder, he's presented with a list of "Recommended Applications" that (more often than not) has the app he wants grayed out. Ideally, there would ...