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

Application Wizard will allow 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 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.

Here are some key features of "Application Wizard":

· open favorite applications and groups of applications;
· quickly open recent applications, applications in the Applications folder or in frequently used folders and System Preferences panes;
· force applications to open using Rosetta or in Classic;
· open applications automatically at startup;
· quit multiple applications at one time;
· quit background-only applications and the Finder;
· force applications to quit or force them to quit and automatically 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 applications opened using Rosetta;
· navigate volumes and frequently used folders to quickly open any enclosed item;
· easily access recent folders and frequently used files;
· browse your iPhoto or Aperture library;
· 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.

Requirements:

· Some features (displaying slideshows, viewing metadata associated with files, adding pictures to iPhoto) require Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Limitations:

· 15 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· 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.