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I was cleaning out the drive on my powerbook today and getting ready to backup. I started writing my own backup utility using applescript so I re-installed the "script menu". I created an alias my backup script and tossed it in ~/Scripts - everything worked as expected (except for my bad code - but that's another thread). Then I got to thinking: "What else can I put in this scripts menu?"

So I drag/dropped a URL from the safari address bar in to the scripts folder. Sure enough the URL appeared in the list, and selecting opened the URL in safari.

Cool.

Then I created an alias to an iChat and moved it into the same folder: Click on it launched iChat (it also automatically names it "iChat" rather than "iChat Alias" which I thought was plenty slick).

Then I thought: What happens If I put an alias to a folder in there? So I made an alias to my public folder and tossed it into ~/Scripts. Not only does the link to the folder work, but it actually lets you navigate the contents of that folder!

Best of all, the Scripts menu is a full apple menu extra so you can move it around by holding CMD and place it anywhere in the menu. You can remove it by cmd+draging it off the dock. This is all around good stuff.

here are the details:

1) Go to the Applications folder, then into the Applescript folder. Double click on "Install Script Menu"

2) from the Applescript menu extra (look up by the clock, airport strength bar, ichat agent, etc) choose "Hide Library Scripts" - this will hide all of the default scripts

3) Choose "Open Scripts folder" from the applescript menu extra

4) Place aliases to folders/applications/files and URLS in the scripts folder located at (/Users/yourname/Library/Scripts)

5) Click on the applescript menu extra: be amazed as all your new aliases appear and work.

--- I'm sorry if this is old news, but I've never seen anyone using the scripts menu in this way, I figured some of the OS X newbies would at least find this useful ---

Here's a screenshot of the result (attached)

EDIT: fixed a mistake: CMD+drag to move, not ctrl+drag - thanks jagedEdge.

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Very cool! I just tried it and its good alternate to tigerlaunch but you can't be easy to use freeware with a stick. I'll stick to tigerlaunch

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