Service Scrubber 1.0
Mac OS X’s built-in
Third party Services plug-ins offer even more options.
Peter Maurer, creator of
My Services menu is clogged with services from old deleted apps and functions that I will never use. With Service Scrubber I can restructure the menu, change the
Service Scrubber is donation-ware and available from Peter’s web site.
UPDATE: As Marc Bizer points out in the comments, you can also use Service Manager, a third-party System Preference plug-in from Blacktree, to manage your services menu, although it has slightly fewer features.
UPDATE: (23 December 2005) Peter has released an updated version of the app (1.1) that finds system-owned services more easily and has some additional features.
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December 22nd, 2005 at 11:56 am
Were you aware that a “Services” prefpane has existed for quite some time?
http://www.blacktree.com/apps/servicemanager/index.html
Seems to do the same thing as Service Scrubber.
December 22nd, 2005 at 12:01 pm
Thanks for mentioning that. I should have. It’s what I have been using up to now.
December 23rd, 2005 at 8:01 pm
@Marc Bizer: Actually, there are some differences: For instance, have you ever tried disabling the ChineseTextConverter with Blacktree’s “Services” pane?
December 25th, 2005 at 1:35 am
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