March 2003
Beginner
432 pages
11h 30m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X Hacks
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Putting Things in the Apple Menu
The FruitMenu haxie restores the ability to add favorite applications, folders, and other things to the Apple menu — and more.
Although Mac users are a tried-and-true bunch, stalwart to the end, there are often outcries when something doesn’t function exactly as users expect. Such moaning was heard when OS X was released: “Where are my beloved Apple menu items?”
Prior to OS X, the Macintosh had a feature that many of us enjoyed: the ability to put items into the Apple menu, be they folders, files, AppleScripts, or what have you. Thankfully, Unsanity has (re)delivered this functionality with an excellent piece of software called FruitMenu (http://www.unsanity.com/) that’s just the ticket (see Figure 4-2).
Figure 4-2. Choosing items for your FruitMenu
FruitMenu is a small download but packs a decent wallop, immediately becoming a part of many a user’s essential software downloads. Just as it suggests, FruitMenu allows you to customize the Apple menu, including customization of contextual menus. And we’re not just talking about files and folders, either.
The latest version of FruitMenu supports adding AppleScripts and shell scripts to your menus, the ability to show your IP address (and upon selection, to copy it to the clipboard, which is an immense time saver for dial-up users), the ability to show currently running applications (much like the System ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.