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October 2, 1998
Shareware Fee: $19
Cogco Software
Hippo
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Pros: some items are useful
Cons: complicated, expensive, most items are superfluous
Hippo is a contextual menu module which is supposed to make your life quicker and easier by adding a few new features to your standard Mac OS 8 contextual menus. With no beating around the bush, this product leaves much to be desired. Instead of working with the OS, as a system component should, it is merely a collection of applescript instructions that are availible via a contextual menu. This would be all well and fine, if you didn't have to pay twenty dollars for it. Any slightly advanced Mac user could easily make these on his own, and customize them- while saving a couple bucks on the way.
On the plus side, it can streamline your Mac usage so that you can save about 1-2 seconds each time you use it, but the time it takes to configure and open the apple script mostly negates that advantage. The most useful script in the entire batch is the "open with" item (which is all Hippo 1.0 really was) that allows you to change the application used to open the file. The change creator/type codes can also be useful, but you'll be hard pressed to make use of the others. Quite simply, Hippo ends up being a waste of time; if the applications are that important, put them in the apple menu. -MS
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