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Service Scrubber

Via mph, Service Scrubber:


With Service Scrubber, you can:

* restructure the services menu
* change service keyboard shortcuts
* disable services

I've been headscratching over the services menu for some time now. I have not been able to determine which particular Mac OS X hoodoo file I need to edit to get rid of them, and now I have a shiny gooey utility-thing to handle it for me! Yay computer priesthood!

OK, 2 things still:

1. How come applications I am no longer using still stick stuff in the services menu?

2. How come in the one application where the services menu might be of some use to me, namely Firefox, nearly the entire services menu is greyed out? Firefox is doing something non-Mac-like, obviously, since the other services menu hack I use, Devon's HotService, doesn't work with Firefox either. Anyplace I can go to read up on the services thing?

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Posted by John on December 22, 2005 5:27 PM |

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I think the Firefox thing is owing to it not being a Cocoa app. All the people heresay similar. I don't know if it's a "not Cocoa" thing as much as it is a XUL thing (because I think I have Carbon apps that respect the services menu), but there it is.

I was on a total Firefox 1.5 kick for all of three days until I needed to TextSoap a field in the company CMS and couldn't. Suddenly, Greasemonkey wasn't as mission critical.

Posted by: mph | December 22, 2005 6:20 PM

Wow. I Googled up that entry and just noticed two things:

1. Someone down-thread says "Carbon supports services but it's harder," and

2. The entry is cross-posted to two "weblogs." I thought that cross-posting to vertical sites with a bit of content-area overlap was an "efficiency" my old-media-masquerading-as-a-Web-play-company cooked up ... not the brave new world of blogfarming.

Posted by: mph | December 22, 2005 6:29 PM