TurboTool 2.3 review
DownloadTurboTool is a Drag & Drop and Service tool hiding the power of UNIX under a user-friendly graphical frontend.
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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, ...)
TurboTool 2.3 keywords