App Pick: RCDefaultApp★

Ever had files that refused to open with your application of choice? I own Dreamweaver but much prefer TextMate so when I go to a folder and see all my files with Dreamweaver icons I have to drag each of them to TextMate on the dock before I can continue my development work.

Control clicking, and setting always open with is far too tedious, and the whole process just bugs me. Dreamweaver won't let me say, "Hell, I don't like you, relinquish your grasp on my files and give them to TextMate", and TextMate won't take the offensive and snatch back what belongs to it.

So I found a great app called RCDefaultApp so cunningly named from Rubicode. It's good, it's very good indeed.

Install it, and it simply adds a preference pane to System Preferences. Open that pane and every option, preference and parameter related to the art of double clicking files is available to change as you see fit.

With a few clicks I had confirmed TextMate's position as Big Daddy. With a few more I could've given the title to TextEdit. Which would have been blaspheme, and then I would've been burned.

So check it out, its worth having around for when a filetype goes awol, or starts misbehaving.
RCDefaultApp

Happy Mac'ing!

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★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Saturday, July 7, 2007 7:22 PM | Links to this post

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