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Product Description:
FruitMenu is a haxie that gives you the ability to customize the Apple Menu and contextual menus. Using a visual editor you can edit the contents of the menus to suit your needs and taste. FruitMenu will also display the contents of the FruitMenu Items folder inside of your Library folder, launch applications and shell scripts from the Apple Menu and contextual menus, to allow easy file navigation and launching. You can also assign hotkeys to particular Apple menu items.
What's new in this version:
- Note: The price of FruitMenu has increased from $10 to $12. (This increase will take effect sometime Tuesday.)
- This is a free upgrade.
- Added support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard v10.5 and later.
- Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. FruitMenu now requires Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger v10.4.11 or later.
- Removed all references to QuickTime. Now uses the superior ImageIO functionality to work with images. This has an unintended side effect of decreasing FruitMenu's load time at application launch.
- Removed a lot of deprecated APIs and replaced them with modern, non-deprecated versions.
- Removed some calls to the private CPS (CoreProcess Services) APIs when there was a public replacement (many CPS functions still lack a replacement in 10.5.x).
- Changed the gather option to choose a folder name based on the current user's locale settings.
- Added some spin locks and less trans fat.
- Significantly reduced application launch time by only loading preference panes on demand.
- Includes APE 2.5.
- Includes SCR 1.5.
- Plea: If you've bought FruitMenu around four years ago and have never paid for it again (we've not charged for an update of FruitMenu) we kindly ask if you wouldn't mind paying a voluntary upgrade fee. This fee is completely voluntary, is not required, and FruitMenu itself has no knowledge of whether you have volunteered or not. There are no perks to volunteer and we only ask that only registered users volunteer. To volunteer, please go to http://www.unsanity.com/store/add/fruitmenu_vuf.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4/10.5
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Abandonware: Unsanity Sucks! Zero Support! 
- Version: 3.7.1, 2/14/2009 10:16PM PST
(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)
MAC_1984
Seems to conflict with Parallels Desktop - Version: 3.7.1, 9/10/2008 07:48AM PST
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armadin10.5.4
MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM
Given the amount of "work" an applications' menu does for you, it seems strange that the Apple menu is such an anaemic affair. FruitMenu expands on this much like the hierarchical menu of Mac OS 9, or like BeHierarchic in Mac OS 8. It gives you access to your favourite applications and utilities, which you can put in the main menu or conveniently in submenus. There are also system commands, which can also be accessed with keyboard shortcuts. This gives you great access to your applications and utilities without being forced to put them in the Dock, or having to go in to the applications or utilities folders. It also gives you "one click" access to your favourite files and folders. There is also a mechanism to access this through a contextual menu, but I don't use this function.
FruitMenu relies on Unsanity's Application Enhancer (APE), which intercepts a variety of interface actions and run "alternative extensions" or haxies. Leopard broke this mechanism well and good, so much so that haxies relying on APE were out of action for a long time. If anything, it made me realise how much I rely on FruitMenu – and how much time a shareware developer can spend supporting this. With the re-vamped Leopard compatible FruitMenu, I have experienced few if any problems. My only qualm would be that FruitMenu does increase the start-up time, and can be a slouch the first time a menu is used.
Maybe I'm set in my ways in that I like to be able to get to all my applications and utilities in a visually non-intrusive way. Well worth $12, I'd say.