TurboTool 2.3 review

TurboTool is a Drag & Drop and Service tool hiding the power of UNIX under a user-friendly graphical frontend.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 2482K Developer: tin:b Software Buy Now Price: $18.00 Updated: 28 Apr 2006

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TurboTool is a Drag & Drop and Service tool hiding the power of UNIX under a user-friendly graphical frontend.

In its default configuration TurboTool provides several Actions for immediate use plus several actions serving as an example for its extensibility.

Whether it is a simple job like 'Open this file with this application', or a more complex one like 'Update this file on my homepage', or 'Use Grab to make a snapshot from the screen and open it in GraphicConverter' - there are jobs we all do every day and we do it by hand and don't let the computer do its job.

Here are some key features of "TurboTool":
TurboTool may be:
called from the Services menu
used by Drag & Drop onto its icon, its main window or its FileWell, 
called via AppleScript
controlled from the command line by tt and best:
TurboTool lets you encapsulate your specific job into a Droplet.

Limitations:
Registration screen at startup.

What's New:
Action Search Field
Action History
Drag & Drop of text and URLs onto main window
TurboTool may act as "Default Web Browser"
New Variables %string and %urlstring
Last used action is restored after restart
Pasteboard quickies
Search/Replace in text areas
Inspector UI cleaned
Cleaned application icon
Special actions (for service start) e.g. editable
Some bugfixes within TurboTool
Bugfixes within FileWell (Edit "Open Applications" list, ...)