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But if this is the only one of FinderPops many features you need, a suitable alternative is Devon Technologies XMenu.

I wrote a one-paragraph review of XMenu back in 2005, but the program is worth revisiting: since that time, its been updated for Intel Macs, gained some impressive speed boosts, and added some useful features.

XMenu lets you add one or more menus to the menu bar for browsing files and data.

The available menus are Applications (for the main Applications folder), Developer (for the Developer folder, if youve installed Apples developer tools), Home (for your home directory), Documents (for your personal Documents folder), User-Defined, and Snippets.

User-Defined is a custom menu you create by dropping files, folders, and aliases into LibraryApplication SupportXMenu.

XMenus menus displayed as icons (top), text (middle), or icons and text (bottom).

Place these items in LibraryApplication SupportXSnippets, and when you want to use one, you just choose it from the Snippets menu; XMenu inserts the items contents into the current document or text field.

Each menu has a unique icon to help you distinguish it from the others, though you can instead choose to view the menus by their (editable) namesor by both name and icon.

You can also choose how the contents of these menus are displayed: in small or large text, or as small or large icons with text.

Luckily, I rarely wanted to use them; I mainly used XMenu to open frequently-used files and folders.

A couple features I miss from FinderPop are ways to organize the custom menu without having to fool around with spaces and special characters, and the capability to add dividing lines between groups of items.

Another feature Id like to see is the capability to create multiple custom menus, as well as to designate any folderfor example, the Desktop or a project folderas a new menu.

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But FinderPop also injects its code into every running application, whereas XMenu doesnt touch other programs, so it shouldnt affect the stability of the OS or applications.

Its a simpler solution for those who dont need much more than a few quick-access menus.

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