Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, Shareware
PiquantMenu gives full control of your Mac from the menu bar
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Jul 22nd 2005 at 1:59PM
Looks like I'm going to become a Parrothead after all. Michaël Parrot's PiquantMenu received a major update this week, although it's entirely new to me. And while the TUAW crew seems to love QuickSilver, on my pathetic little iFrankenBook it just slows everything down. So PiquantMenu is my new best friend. It's not QuickSilver per se (lacking the coolio search functionality and some other power toys), but it is a great little launcher and file browser. See, not everyone uses Spotlight to ignore their folder hierarchy (which also brings my machine to it's knees).PiquantMenu allows you to put any app, folder, favorites, AppleScripts, etc. into iconized menus next to your clock on the menu bar. The drop-down menus are also detachable for added fun. It's always nice to see these GUI tweaks for the Mac, and even better when they are simple and elegant and useful. Check out the demo movie to fully understand how fun this app can be. All this for only $18.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
