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Filed under: iLife, Features, Tips and tricks, iTunes, Open Source, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAW

Ask TUAW: Sharing iPhoto and iTunes between users, seeing who's connected, scrubbing Sercices, and more

This week in Ask TUAW we have questions about sharing iPhoto and iTunes between different users on the same Mac, seeing who's connected to your wireless network, cleaning up the Services menu, installing applications, the nature of open source software and more. Remember new Mac users and Switchers who are enjoying our Mac 101 series should feel very welcome to post questions for Ask TUAW; we're happy to have them. As always, please submit your questions for next week by commenting to this post.

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Filed under: Software, Cool tools

Service Scrubber is Universal

I'm not sure when it turned, but Service Scrubber has become a Universal Binary. We've mentioned this slick utility before, but in case you're unfamiliar, Service Scrubber allows you to do three fundamental things with that powerful, but seldom used, Services menu underneath your active Application menu in the menubar:
  • restructure the services menu
  • change service keyboard shortcuts
  • disable services
It's a very handy utility, especially for those of you who like to tinker with lots of different apps and utilities and suddenly find yourselves overrun with services.

Service Scrubber is donationware and available from Peter Maurer's site.

Filed under: OS, Software, Cool tools, Productivity

Take control of your Services menu with Service Scrubber

Service ScrubberService Scrubber is one of those "great idea!" apps that should have been built into OS X since day 1: it lets you easily edit and customize the Services menu. Offering a simple UI, you are presented with a list of all the apps that have services installed, and you're able to toggle each one on/off, rename and even assign/edit keyboard shortcuts. Call me crazy, but I don't think customizing Services could get much simpler than this.

Service Scrubber is brought to you by Peter Maurer, the same guy who graced us all with Textpander, and it's donationware. While 'donationware' means that it's free, I highly recommend that you drop at least a few bucks to developers like Peter if you find their apps useful. There's nothing like a little bit of compensation to inspire innovations like Peter's apps.

Tip of the Day

Want to create custom shortcuts? Head to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard and Mouse part of System Preferences to create shortcuts for common tasks that appear in the Services menu. You can also add application shortcuts for tasks that appear in the menu bar of those programs.

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