Application Wizard 2.4 (released September 2009) Application Wizard provides quick access to your applications, documents and pictures. Open Menu Quit Menu Switch Menu Special Menu With Application Wizard you can: open favorite applications and groups of applications; quickly open recent applications, applications in the Applications folder and System Preferences panes; force applications to open in 32-bit mode or using Rosetta; open applications automatically at startup; quit multiple or all applications at one time; quit background-only applications and the Finder; force applications to quit or relaunch them; switch between applications; bring specific windows to the front when making applications active; show and hide groups of applications; turn on single application mode; mark 32-bit applications or applications opened using Rosetta. In addition to that, Application Wizard lets you: navigate volumes and frequently used folders to quickly open enclosed items; easily access recent folders and frequently used files; browse your iPhoto or Aperture library; quickly look up contact information; view information about files and open them with specific applications; preview images, music, movies, PDF and text files; copy pictures to the Clipboard and add them to iPhoto; display pictures and PDF files as slideshows; easily view the metadata associated with images, songs, movies and PDF files; check system memory usage and view uptime. Application Wizard is compatible with Snow Leopard and runs in English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian. System requirements Application Wizard 2.4 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later (including Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard) and runs natively on PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs.
				Download Purchase from Kagi Frequently asked questions Help System requirements Registration Overview Is Application Wizard compatible with Snow Leopard? Does Application Wizard run on Intel-based Macs? What's new? Acknowledgements Reviews and comments Application Wizard runs natively on PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs. Rob Griffiths, May 2009 Mac Gems

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:

	Single User License: 19 US$
	Site License: 240 US$
	World-wide License: 950 US$

Upgrade from Application Wizard 1.x to Application Wizard 2.4 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.

Overview

Is Application Wizard compatible with Snow Leopard?

Yes, Application Wizard 2.4 fully supports Mac OS X 10.6 Snow 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 2.4?

	The incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard have been solved. In addition to that, the Application Wizard preference pane is now 64-bit capable on Snow Leopard.
	On Macs with a 64-bit processor and Snow Leopard, the Quit and Switch menus now mark 32-bit applications instead of 64-bit applications.
	On Macs with a 64-bit processor and Snow Leopard, applications can be opened in 32-bit mode directly from the Open menu by selecting them and pressing the Control key. In addition to that, Application Wizard lets you customize applications so that they always open in 32-bit mode.
	On Snow Leopard, Application Wizard calculates file and disk sizes using the decimal system (1 KB = 1,000 bytes, 1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes, ... ).
	The Login Window item can now be added to the Special menu, so that you can quickly lock your screen while you are away from your computer.
	Besides moving files to the Trash and copying them to the desktop, the Special menu lets you now move or copy files to any folder or disk. To move or copy a file, select it in the Special menu and choose the Move to or Copy to command, respectively.
	Application Wizard lets you now disable previews for specific file types. To disable previews for one or more file types, select the Do not preview files with extension checkbox in the Previews panel and enter the corresponding extensions.
	On Mac OS X 10.5 or later, the configuration of hot keys has been revised so that Unicode keyboards and the F17, F18, F19 keys are now supported. In addition to that, keypad keys appear in square brackets [ ] in the General pane of the Application Wizard preferences and hot keys are now disabled in full screen mode.
	On Mac OS X 10.5 or later, the management of the Application Wizard login item has been revised to solve possible incompatibilities.
	A bug that prevented paths from being displayed in the Configure Special Menu dialog despite the Info button was turned on has been fixed.
	A bug that could cause Application Wizard to crash under particular circumstances when the depth of folders added to the Open menu was changed has been fixed.
	Several other minor bugs have been fixed and some other minor improvements have been introduced.
	Minimum required system version is now Mac OS X 10.4.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank:

	Saulo Matute Montessori for his comments and suggestions and for the Spanish localization of Application Wizard;
	Patrick Van der Perre for beta-testing Application Wizard, for his comments and suggestions and for the Dutch localization of Application Wizard;
	Ricardo Batista and Kevin Ballard for the MacShareware.net SDK and the MacPAD for Cocoa SDK.

Reviews and comments

Application Wizard is a beautiful app! 5 minutes of use and I decided to purchase!

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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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