Apptrap review
Apptrap review mac#
Installing applications on the Mac is pretty easy. It definitely has found a place in my workflow.
Apptrap review software#
It is very well-thought out software with a rich heritage which I am falling in love with. The software seems to meld away to the background and lets you concentrate on the task in hand, making outlines. It is fast, extremely responsive and very intuitive. Opal more than holds its own in this marketplace. One of the main ones is a product called OmniOutliner which I am going to cover in a future post. Recommendation: There are lots of outliners available in the Macintosh marketplace. You should read this to get an excellent overview of what you can expect from an outlining program.
Apptrap review pdf#
Usage Note: When you mount the disk image of Opal, you will find a PDF file on the image called All About Outliners. Now you have three keyboard commands which make this feature much more easier to access. Repeat the process twice more with the only changes being the Unfocus and Unfocus All, Menu Title entries. After completing the steps, press the Add button. If you don't like keyboard commands, and have to use the mouse, the icons on the toolbar perform the same functions.
Visually, taking a topic left, promotes it, while taking a topic right, demotes it. I love this arrangement of the keyboard commands. To demote it, I can press the keyboard: Command +Shift+R (for right). I hit return to get a new topic, then I can choose to keep it at the level it is or to promote it, I can press the keyboard command: Command +Shift+L (for left). I must say that I much prefer keyboard commands to clicking on icons.
To get a topic at a level lower than the one you are working on, you can click on the New Daughter icon. Anytime you are working in the outline, you can click the New Sister button to get another topic at the same level of the outline that you have been working on. You click on the New Aunt button to get a topic at the level above where you are in the outline. You hit enter to get a new topic, or you use the toolbar buttons. QuickCursor works with BBEdit, Espresso, MacVim, Smultron, SubEthaEdit, TextMate, TextWrangler, and WriteRoom. All this happens automagically and saves me a bunch of copy and paste and switching between application commands. After I am done, I can press Command S (Save) and Command W (Close the window) and immediately I am switched to the comment form in my browser, the text highlighted is now replaced by the complete text of the BBEdit window I closed. So, for instance, if I am on a comment form in an online forum, I can press a keystroke command and the highlighted portion of the text I am commenting on gets copied to BBEdit and I can finish my reply there.
QuickCursor gives me the ability to write everything in BBEdit irrespective of what program I am in. I got tired of waiting for version 2.0 of TextMate. It's fast, effective and free.I have been waiting for this. But AppTrap enables you to continue deleting apps the way Apple wants you to, without leaving all that cruft behind. Select the app you want to uninstall from a list of installed programs and hit delete.
Apptrap review windows#
Other uninstaller apps that we've featured on the Daily Mac App before primarily work along the Windows way of uninstalling. It will then locate any files associated with that application and ask you whether you want to trash them as well, removing the need for you to hunt them down manually. But what happens when you want to clear out your hard drive properly after each uninstall? Installed as a Preference Pane, AppTrap runs in the background watching for when you trash an application from your Applications folder. The size of the preference files, settings and other cruft left behind is so small in comparison to modern disk sizes that you shouldn't have to worry about them. We all know that the Mac way of uninstalling apps is just to delete them.
AppTrap is an app up to the task, which integrates nicely into the OS X way of uninstalling apps. With the imminent release of Lion, perhaps it's time to clear out all those apps you don't need anymore.