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Always to hand, never in your wayApplication Wizard menus can be quickly accessed through a small translucent panel discreetly located along the left, top, right or bottom screen side, which you can hide and automatically show just when you need it.
Alternatively, menus can be displayed from the menu bar or using customizable hot keys.
Open menu: applications at your fingertipsApplication Wizard's Open menu lets you quickly open favorite applications or groups of related applications, recent applications, applications in the Dock or in your Applications folder and System Preferences panes.
Have universal applications that rely on plug-ins or drivers that have not yet been released in a Universal format? No problem, simply press the Option key after highlighting them in the Open menu and Application Wizard will force them to run using Rosetta.
Quit menu: quitting with a clickQuitting applications can't be easier: with Application Wizards you can quit any combination of open applications or all running applications with a single click.
In addition to that, the Quit menu lets you see which applications are running non-natively on Intel-based Macs by marking them as PowerPC and allows you to force applications to quit and quit background-only applications.
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Switch menu: smooth switchingApplication Wizard's Switch menu lets you switch between applications and show or hide single or groups of applications.
If you regularly work with many open documents, the Switch menu lets you show application windows, so that you can bring specific windows to the front when switching between applications. Finally, with the Switch menu you can turn on single application mode to reduce screen clutter. Special menu: fast access to anything on your MacApplication Wizard's Special menu lets you navigate volumes (disks, connected servers, CDs or DVDs, ... ) and frequently used folders to quickly open any enclosed item. It lets you preview documents and easily access recent folders, favorite files, package contents, Address Book contacts and your iPhoto or Aperture library.
But that's not all. With the Special menu you can also monitor system memory usage and view uptime, quit and launch the Finder and, on PowerPC-based Macs, start and stop Classic. Previews: an instant look at filesApplication Wizard lets you show previews in the Special menu so that you can quickly display information about files and preview images, music, movies, PDF and text files.
Previews let you also copy pictures to the Clipboard, open documents with specific applications, show files in the Finder, move them to the Trash and copy them to the Desktop. Finally, if you have Mac OS X 10.4 or later, with previews you can add pictures to iPhoto, easily view the metadata embedded in image files and display pictures and PDF files as slideshows. |
System requirements
Application Wizard requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later and runs natively on PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs.
Some features (displaying slideshows, viewing metadata associated with files, adding pictures to iPhoto) require Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Registration
Application Wizard is distributed as shareware. You may freely use it for 15 days to see whether if fits your needs. The trial period expired, if you decide to keep using it, you must register. Registration fees are:
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Single User License: 19 US$ |
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Site License: 240 US$ |
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World-wide License: 950 US$ |
Upgrade from Application Wizard 1.x to Application Wizard 2.3.2 is free.
A single user license applies to one person using a single computer. A site license covers all computers owned by an organization within a 100 mile radius of the organization's site. A world-wide license covers all computers owned by an organization regardless of geographic location.
To learn more about registration, visit our Registration page. To purchase Application Wizard, visit our online store at Kagi.
Is Application Wizard compatible with Leopard?
Yes, Application Wizard 2.2.2 or later fully supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Does Application Wizard run on Intel-based Macs?
Yes, Application Wizard is Universal Binary and runs natively on Intel-based Macs.
What's new in version 2.3.2?
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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. |
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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. |
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Previews of album covers on Mac OS X 10.5 have been improved. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Some other minor fixes have been introduced. |
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank:
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Tadashi Kawaguchi for his comments and suggestions and for beta-testing Application Wizard; |
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Saulo Matute Montessori for his comments and suggestions and for the Spanish localization of Application Wizard; |
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Patrick Van der Perre for beta-testing Application Wizard, for his comments and suggestions and for the Dutch localization of Application Wizard; |
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Ricardo Batista and Kevin Ballard for the MacShareware.net SDK and the MacPAD for Cocoa SDK. |
Reviews and comments
I cannot believe that it took me so long to find Application Wizard. It is fantastic!
Absolutely superb as always. Is rock solid on everything from an old speed-bumped G4 to a new Mac Pro, all running 10.4.8 at time of writing. Couldn't live without it now.
I recently purchased Application Wizard, which I think is terrific - it's a great help to keep my computer organized and files easily accessible.
Loved the original Quit CSM control strip for OS 9 for many years; this evolution is just on another level. MabaSoft just knows how to write these invaluable little applications and the Quit All command in this one is something I couldn't live without; but then it's bundled with all those other new features from v1.4 onwards; v1.5 adds some more things from the Quit CSM days but it's even better now. Money well spent!
User review from MacUpdate
Stable, reliable, functional, efficient, effective, powerful. I bought this software shortly after buying my new Mac over a year ago because I needed a faster method to manage OS X. I don't know how anyone can navigate OS X efficiently without Application Wizard.
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 [...] 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.
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.
Fantastic marvelous utility! This is a wonderful one of a kind utility. The two things I like: 1) You can instantly quit all applications at once. 2) With new update, you can hide all apps at once, and yet select to not hide certain apps -- this is brand new feature that the Apple's finder cannot do.
There are many more features, highly recommended.
Great! The ability to quit background-only applications is a plus. [...] I also like the ability to quit many applications at once, plus the quick access to many items (e.g. applications, system preferences, etc.).
I have been using other programs that have similar functionality, but prefer Application Wizard's unobtrusive nature, and quick rendering of menus/submenus.
Remarkable app! Since migrating to OS X, I sorely missed Quit CSM and was grateful for the reintroduction of its Quit functionality (with improvements) in Application Wizard.
User reviews from TechTracker.com
Application Wizard - Spend less time accessing your applications, documents and pictures and more time on the things that matter.
Mit dem Application Wizard 2.0 Programme und Dateien öffnen: vier Farben für ein Halleluja. Application Wizard will beweisen, daß es komfortablere Möglichkeiten als den Finder und das Dock gibt, um Programme und Dateien zu öffnen.
Application Wizard: un peu de magie dans la gestion de vos applications! Ouvrir, fermer ou quitter une application, passer d'une application à une autre sont des opérations très faciles sous OS X. Vous pouvez vous servir des menus disponibles dans la barre du Finder ou du Dock, ainsi que des menus contextuels. Mais pourquoi ne pas regrouper toutes ces opérations, et bien d'autres encore, en un seul et unique endroit, ce qui peut ainsi nous faciliter la tâche au quotidien?
Et bien ceci est désormais possible grâce à Application Wizard, dont les éditeurs ont su allier esthétisme, discrétion, convivialité, simplicité dans une petite palette munie de quatres boutons acidulés qui vont vous permettre d'un simple clic de souris de multiples opérations.
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