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CandyBar 3.1.2 (Mac OS X)

LiteIcon : Check out a free alternative to CandyBar  

CandyBar is very nice and has a high degree of polish but its the kind of product you use maybe a couple of times a year to set things up once and then forget it. (ie up until Apple regains its sanity and uses an icon collection that is designed by someone with a modicum of aesthetics and design skills. It still stuns me that they shipped Leopard icons which are so badly designed, so flat, so lifeless, and convey such little information... In the words of John Siracusa Apple's gone and made it worse in a way that's obvious in seconds to anyone who's ever given any thought to interface design. It boggles the mind.)

So its pretty clear one needs a product to do the same thing as candy bar. But as many people have noted the price of candy bar seems somewhat excessive. Its a very nice product but its utility is compared to say a text editor, or maybe omni-outliner, etc. Anyway maybe I missed it, but no one seems to have commented below that there is a donation ware alternative LiteIcon. I have nothing to do with the product, I just stumbled across it one day. It seems to do about the same thing as CandyBar. [alert admin]

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Sunday, January 20 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

CuteClips 2.02 (Mac OS X)

Consumes copious quantities of memory.  

I really like the interface for this pasteboard utility, but.... I just tried this application for a little test. After using this utility for a little while, the memory consumed by it grew *very* large. In the Activity Monitor it reported that cute clips had consumed 648Megs of real memory. This is *huge* for just a clipboard utility.... [alert admin]

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Saturday, March 24 2007 @ 12:17 AM PDT

MaxMenus 1.5 (Mac OS X)

The Best  

I use (and have used) hierarchical navigation as my primary means to navigate and get around quickly. It is a critical component of my normal usage of OSX and before that OS9, etc. Over the years I have used many of the systems out there, FruitMenu, Butler, PiDock, ittec...

At the change over to my Macintel machine I switched from MaxMenus to Butler because MaxMenus wasn't universal at that time. (MaxMenus has been universal for a while but I only just switched back recently.) (I switched back to MaxMenus since there were occasional times when Butler would crash and I would need to restart it.)

Anyway since switching back again to MaxMenus again, I can really notice the speed differences. Now menus are just snappier and quicker, and the stability is excellent.

In my opinion, MaxMenus in its current incarnation is the best hierarchical navigation tool / extension available.

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Wednesday, March 14 2007 @ 02:28 PM PDT

MaxMenus 1.4 (Mac OS X)

Until there is a universal binary...  

Until Proteron release a version for macintel, most MaxMenu junkies (Uhmmm I meant users...) will need something similar. I should mention butler as a possible substitute. (I have to say though the hierarchical browsing in butler isn't as fast and I have had butler quit on me a few times while I have recently done stuff in the directories I was browsing... but just in case you need a substitute you can use that until MaxMenus comes to macintel... [alert admin]

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Sunday, March 12 2006 @ 02:29 PM PST

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