MacOS Items Manager is a friend of Extensions Manager. It allows to enable/disable contextual menu items, Control Strip Modules and fonts, in the same way Extensions Manager does for extensions and control panels.
System Requirements
MacOS Items Manager runs on any PowerMacintosh with MacOS 8.0 or later in Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish or Swedish.
MacOS Items Manager is also available in Dutch, French, German, Italian and Japanese.
Installation
To install MacOS Items Manager, drag MacOS Items Manager control panel onto your System folder icon. Answer "OK" when asked if you want it put into the Control Panels folder. However, since MacOS Items Manager is not a real ControlPanel but an application, you do not need to restart your Macintosh to use it.
Because its use is similar to Extensions Manager, you should not need more help.
Known limitations
• MacOS Items Manager cannot manage folders other than Control Strip Modules, Contextual Menu Items and Fonts folders. Next release (MacOS IM 2.0) should.
• Mac OS Items Manager cannot preview font which was not enabled at startup.
• MacOS Items Manager doesn’t give version number for a font suitcase, until the font suitcase is scaned (see below).
• When "Show information" is enabled, the first time you select a font suitcase in the list, MacOS IM scans it: it first duplicates the font suitcase, then read the resources of this copy. That's why you may get disk activity with large suitcase.
Shareware fee
MacOS Items Manager is distributed as Shareware. You can try it for one month. If you want to continue to use it, you should pay the shareware fee: a license for a single user will cost $5 ($25 for a Site License, $50 for a WorldWide License).
You can pay with KAGI registration system: open the Register program that accompanies MacOS Items Manager, then follow the instructions. You can also register online at http://order.kagi.com/?U25&S
Contact
You can contact the author by email at vjalby@kagi.com . To find the latest version of MacOS Items Manager, go to http://members.aol.com/vjalby/MacOSIM/
Version history
• Version 1.0 [1999/06/23] First English release.
• Version 1.0.1 [1999/06/30] Minor bugs fixed. Add Japanese support. Dutch, French, Italian and Japanese versions.
• Version 1.0.2 [1999/07/16] Two minor bugs fixed. Include German version.
• Version 1.5 [1999/10/11] Add item’s icon in list, item information, preview of (active at last startup) fonts, sets, custom icon for "out" folders (designed by Yoshi Sakuma), "Revert" and "Restart" buttons, "All On" and "All Off" menu items, "Close Window" menu item, close box. Improve language selection, startup speed, sort speed. Correct font suitcase version. Add finnish support. Finnish version.
• Version 1.5.1 [1999/10/13] Startup delay for unregistered users is now shorter.
• Version 1.5.2 [1999/10/28] MacOS Items Manager remembers the "expanded" folders and the "Show information" state.
Legal Stuff
Use this software, MacOS Items Manager, at your own risk. The author, Vincent Jalby, makes no claims as to the fitness of this software, MacOS Items Manager, for any particular purpose. There is no warranties, expressed or implied.
