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DragThing costs $25 shareware (floating dock windows and hot key support aren’t enabled until you register) competitive upgrades from Semicolon Software’s The Tilery launcher – which won’t be moving to Mac OS X – Aladdin’s DragStrip, and Power On Software’s Action GoMac cost $19. The multitude of options and settings probably defines DragThing’s audience – if you love tweaking your virtual environment, DragThing probably fits your tastes. DragThing offers significant customizability – colors, textures, hot spots, sounds to play, delays before various actions happen, alias handling, and numerous other settings. You can create multiple docks, add files or folders to those docks, assign hot keys to any item, and far more (including, oddly enough, the option to put the Trash back on the Desktop). Because of the significant overlap among these utilities, I’ll start with launchers and work through to those that just insert text.ĭragThing - One of the best known of the alternative launchers is James Thomson’s DragThing, which has provided Dock-like functions for years. Each utility’s raison d’etre is that its alternative method is either faster than the standard approach or fits better with the way your brain is wired. I said then that I was ignoring a large subset of that category, utilities that offer alternative control mechanisms.Įven though utilities like DragThing, QuicKeys X, and TypeIt4Me X may not seem similar, a close look reveals that all offer alternative approaches to completing common tasks, ranging from opening files to entering text automatically. In the previous installment of this series on Mac OS X utilities, I looked at Mac OS X programs that restored common capabilities provided by third party utilities in Mac OS 9. Top Mac OS X Utilities: Alternative Controls
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