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MaxMenus

MaxMenus - 1.5

create flexible menus for simplifying tasks

All Time: (4.0)
Version 1.5: (5.0)
Selected Version: 1.5
Release Date: 2006-07-22
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 1.5): 3,597
Downloads (all versions): 36,188
Price: $29.95

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Product Description:

MaxMenus is a utility that adds powerful, flexible menus to simplify using Mac OS X with NO haxies involved. Always available in the corners of your display, the menus offer unparalleled ease-of-access to your most commonly used applications, documents, folders, volumes, preferences, and... well, you get the idea.

MaxMenus can be customized to your heart's content, configured to meet your every desire. You can build a menu out of any items you want and put it wherever you want. In just a few moments of set-up you can streamline OS X to fit your work habits. With MaxMenus installed you have Mac OS X finally working for you.

MaxMenus also offers the power to link any item on your computer to a key combination. And yes, it's very easy to set up. Just press the key combo while your mouse is over a menu item, presto, the task is done! So go all out and configure every shortcut you want. F8 for iPhoto. F9 for iTunes. F12 for the Terminal. You can even assign key combinations to your menus from the MaxMenus preference pane. Try pressing Option-Apple-Tab when you're done with the MaxMenus install.

We knew MaxMenus wouldn't be complete without support for drag-and-drop. So we took it all the way. The menus you set up in MaxMenus fully support spring loaded drag-and-drop. You'll be moving and copying files, making aliases, and opening every document with your favorite application when MaxMenus is installed.

What's new in this version:

  • Universal binary
  • Live modifier key display as hotkeys are set in the menus
  • More icon size options
  • Integration with Cocoatech's PathFinder (if running, it is used instead of the Finder)
  • Mac OS X 10.4 is now the minimum requirement
  • Pressing ⌘-delete over a menu item moves it to the trash (the old hotkey, pressing ⌘-T twice, still works)
  • Better reporting of hotkeys to missing items
  • Dialogs now float above application windows

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
  • Universal Binary

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Version 1.5:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (5.0) Support: (5.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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MaxMenus CommentaryWill MM work with Snow Leopard - Version: 1.5.1, 8/12/2009 06:31AM PST

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pendragon
Since Proterian is no more, is there any chance that the source code will be (re) licensed, made open source or whatever, so that it can made compatible with Snow Leopard, etc.

Indeed I am saddened to see Proterian fade away...
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MaxMenus CommentaryProteron is apparently no more. - Version: 1.5.1, 8/9/2009 09:38AM PST

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RayCon
Visiting the Proteron website will take you to a page where you can download MaxMenus and LiteSwitch. Registration codes are provided for both. My assumption is that the two applications are no longer being developed (no update since 2007), but the developers were nice enough to provide download links and registration codes.

MaxMenus is an excellent application that I have been using for more years than I can recall. It has (and still is) one of the first applications I install on a new computer. My guess is that, eventually, it will not work on a future iteration of Mac OS X, and that will be a shame. I hope someone can pick up this application and resume development. If I were a developer, I would gladly take it on.
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MaxMenus ReviewMaxMenus is great. It is unmistakable true. - Version: 1.5.1, 6/5/2009 09:12PM PST

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umeno
MaxMenus is great. It is unmistakable true.

I've been using MaxMenus for years and it's superb in use in every way.
MaxMenus has much functions that are farther stronger and more abundant than FinderPop.
And, it is a very excellent tool far used easily.
Therefore, it is wrong to compare MaxMenus with FinderPop.

A lot of friends of me and me strongly support keeping the version improvement of MaxMenus through all eternity.
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