Ever wanted to add services, scripts and other things to your Contextual Menus to make them smarter about offering the options you need rather than the ones that Apple thinks you deserve? Here’s how.

I’ve been keep an eye on this little gem to a while. Now it’s finally come out in a universal binary beta.

Open Menu X 0.92b installs itself as System Preference Pane that allows you to customise the contents of your contextual menus. You can add documents, applications, AppleScripts, Mac Os X Services and more so that they much more readily available:

For example, you could add your most frequently used Mail.app and other services, so that they are never more than a right-click (or ⌘-click for purists) away:

OpenMenu X supports dynamic browsing for volumes and folders, control key-free contextual menu popup, an easy-to-use menu builder and much more. It also includes over 50 helpful Sample Scripts.

OpenMenu X is shareware (USD 10). Try out the new time-limited free Intel-compatible beta from the developer’s web site .contextual menu, shortcuts, services, applescript, hacks, productivity, mail.app, apple mail

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