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Application Wizard - 2.3.2

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All Time:	(4.3)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.3.2
Release Date:	2008-06-06
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	561
Downloads (all versions):	10,485
Price:	$19.00

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Product Description:

Application Wizard provides easy access to your applications, documents and pictures.

Application Wizard lets you quickly open, quit, show and hide applications, open them automatically at startup and force them to open using Rosetta, turn single application mode on and quit background-only applications and the Finder.

With Application Wizard you can also navigate volumes and frequently used folders to quickly open enclosed items, easily access favorite files, recent folders, Address Book contacts and your iPhoto or Aperture library, preview images, music, movies and PDF files, copy pictures and display slideshows, view the metadata associated with files and check system memory usage.

What's new in this version:

The automatic showing of all open applications when single application mode is turned off can now be disabled. To keep inactive applications hidden, deselect the Show all when turning single application mode off checkbox in the Menus pane.
The X11 application now appears in the Quit and Switch menus, so that you can re-enter, hide or exit the X11 environment using Application Wizard.
Previews of album covers on Mac OS X 10.5 have been improved.
An incompatibility of the Application Wizard contextual menu plug-in with Interarchy has been fixed. The incompatibility caused Interarchy to crash if you tried to display a file's contextual menu from a listing window.
An incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later that caused Application Wizard to quit after forcing a Universal application to run using Rosetta has been fixed.
A bug that caused Application Wizard to crash when trying to display the Dock Applications submenu if spacers were added to the Leopard Dock has been fixed.
Some other minor fixes have been introduced.

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
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher

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stable, reliable, functional, efficient, effective, powerful - Version: 2.3, 2/2/2008 12:00AM PST

hudsonw

I bought this software shortly after buying my new Mac over a year ago because I need a faster method to manage OS X. I don't know how anyone can navigate OS X efficiently without Application Wizard.

Still amazing - Version: 2.3, 12/17/2007 05:36PM PST

epc

This is one of those apps that should be part of the OS. Discrete, unobtrusive, and a time saver.
I like to combine the pop-up menu feature mentioned by drtimothyjames with different Groups I create. So for example, I have an "Internet" group and I can launch and/or quit any or all of the applications in the group.
More recently I decided to clean up my login items and created a group for some those items. Now my startup time is faster, and if/when I want those other applications, they're just a shortcut and a click away. In addition, users can customize the behavior of individual applications.
Highly recommended.

These reviews need updating - Version: 2.1, 1/19/2007 09:40AM PST

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drtimothyjames

Wow, the last review I see here is for version 1.4. This thing is up to version 2.1. I've been using this product for a long time, and it's been steady as a rock. It has numerous features worth investigating. I particularly like the ability to quit apps via a pop-up menu. I use AW in conjunction with Butler. I set a hotkey for the quit menu, configure the hotkey for my upper left screen corner, and now I can quit any running application at any time without even having to first switch to that application. That's only one of many nice features of this program.