Comments on: Easier Login Items

By: My Login Items at The Apple Blog

My Login Items at The Apple Blog — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:13:26 +0000

[...] Yesterday I posted a (apparently well known to everyone but me) tip about quickly adding items to your Login process. There was a comment asking about what I could possibly have with 12+ items starting at Login. So I figured I’d answer that here today. [...]

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:36:48 +0000

Quicksilver… It’s an amazing utility, but it’s as difficult to master as an OS is. I use it to launch some stuff. I use the hotkeys to open Gmail and other things. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Lime: You know, the nice thing about OS X is that there are many ways to do the same thing. You don’t have to use the context menus to do things. Folks coming from a Windows background like myself, feel comfortable around context menus. It doesn’t push OS X to look more like Windows. It makes the machine way more accessible to many folks.

By: Lime

Lime — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:52:38 +0000

more pointless context menu additions…

Windows here we come

By: steven

steven — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:38:38 +0000

12+ items open at login? Do tell, which ones?

By: Richard Neal

Richard Neal — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:13:22 +0000

Nick, why not just use Quicksilver for that too? I’m not sure which plugin this comes from, but I get a Open at Login option in QS.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:23:28 +0000

Hahaha, good call there Dave.
I actually touch the Dock very infrequently because I use Quicksilver for nearly everything. So it was a rare moment that I went to the Dock for whatever reason, and happened upon this. Or at least registered that it was there. Oh well, hopefully someone out there sees it as something new.

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:47:28 +0000

I’m sorry to say that I found that within the first few days of owning my MacBook. My MacBook is the first Mac I have owned that had OS X on it.

Maybe since I’m a little new to OS X, I tend to poke around a little, but I knew that there was a lot of stuff in the dock context-sensitive popup menu.

In fact, I wasn’t aware that you could add login programs from the System Preferences. :)