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AppMenuBoy is an OS X application that puts a hierarchical menu of applications in the Dock

When OS X 10.5 (Leopard) changed the way that folders are represented in the Dock, I lost a handy start menu made by dragging the Applications folder to the end of the dock.

This is a small Cocoa application that creates a hierarchical menu, in the dock, and when it is the frontmost app, in the menu bar, of your apps. It only shows apps. If a folder has a single app, it hoists the app up, so no subfolders of exactly one app.

After adding AppMenuBoy to your dock it takes a few seconds for it to fully launch, it needs to go through every folder in your Applications Folder and find each app to add to its file structure. Once loaded it works pretty sweet and it uses less resources that expected. By checking your Activity Monitor located in your Utilities Folder you can see that AppMenuBoy uses zero CPU usage, and a modest amount of virtual memory, 776MB on my machine with about 100 applications loaded on it. This is a great app for power users that switch and load programs frequently, like me.

AppMenuBoy is also open source. Excellent!!!!

Thank you David Oster for writing this great little app.

Get it here FREE at the Google Developer Center

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