NuFile 2.0: No more banging your head against huge dialog boxes.

 

 

Testimonial

Holy crap obo17, that's precisely what I was looking for. 96K of goodness!--rocketbandito. My favourite one.

wow how lond did i wait for this. Great many thanxx 5 Star's if possible because is such a handy tool !--MadMacMad. The first guy to donate to the project

Software della settimana (Software of the week) -- melamorsicata

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Intro

NuFile(pronounced new-file (Nu is a greek letter)) is a contextual menu plugin. It adds a new file menu when you right click at a folder(ie: desktop or Finder background); just like what you can do in Windows. With this menu, you can create an empty file of your favourite type with just two clicks("it's just one click if you hold the button down ;)"--Endian). It's a time saver especially if you have a two-button mouse (ex: Apple's sleeky mighty mouse) or if you use RazzFazz's iScroll2. If you like this program, and want to see its improvement please consider making a donation.

This program was originated when I got bored waiting for a simulation(10 computers in pararell => 12 hours) to finished.

Current Version2.0:Download here(~180K).

Feature

• Add the "New File" to the contextual menu.
• Drag and Drop your own templates at the preference pane to add you custom template.
• Open the file right after the creation(on by default. turn it off at the preference pane). And the program that will be used to open the new file is the same as the default program of the original template.
• Edit your templates from the preference pane
• Show templates' icons at the menu

Version History

• Version 2.0--Nov 4 2006 :D --here # 49396
  • Bug Fix: NuFile causes Open With... to crash. Thanks to RAMPANCY and John41
Version 1.9--Nov 3 2006--here # 2628
• Now it shows templates' icons at the menu. Special Thanks to Apple's new contextual menu plugin example.
• Version 1.8--Feb 18 2005--here # 20211
  • Bug Fix/Feature: Now the created file retains all file type and creator code of the original template. So do all the resource forks. That is whatever setting your have on the original template file (ex: default program to open that file or hide extension attribute) will get copied to the new file. (Requested by chleuasme and caught by Dan Frakes )
  • Bug Fix: The author name of the default Microsoft Office documents is now blank.(Thanks Anon for his suggestions)
  • Feature: Add an edit button. So that users can edit their template directly from the preference pane.(Requested by chleuasme)
  • The installer privilleges fixed(Feb 18 2005). If you have downloaded 1.8 already, just go to disk utility and fix the permission. (Thanks nuffsad=)
• Version 1.7-- Feb 15 2005--here # 4188
  • Feature: Add iWork support.(Now it works on any bundle resources) :D
• Version 1.6 here # 3674
  • Bug Fix: blank preference pane in Panther and earlier version of OS X(Thanks nuffsad and MartinK)
• Version 1.5 here # 3097
  • Feature: Add Drag and Drop in the preference. So, now it's much easier add a template. Just drag from Finder and drop it in the table.
  • Feature: RTF is now in the default setting. If have older version and you want to use the new default setting you have to issue the following command at the terminal(without quotes and note that it's case-sensitive): 'default delete com.tee.NuFile'. All your preferences will be reset to the new Default.(As requested by Pete and an anonymous guest)
  • Feature: Open file after creation. It's on by default. Turn it off at the preference pane.(As requested by Pete)
  • Feature: Installer no longer requires log off. It'll restart Finder though.(As requested by Garoo)
  • Please make a donation to get the secret of NuFile (aka. easter egg) :)
• Version 1.4 here # 4933
  • The Helper app is now turned into a prefpane
  • A little larger Table
• Version 1.3beta here # 3274
  • -Add a minimal app to add/change templates
  • -Still, it does NOT support iWork
  • -If you right click and the file doesn't show up, check console.app.
• NuFile 1.2 here # 3331
  • -Universal Binary(have not been tested on Intel though)
  • -Add New Word Document
  • -Add New JAVA File
  • -Add New PHP Document
  • -Add New Excel Document
  • -Add New Powerpoint Document
  • -Add New Word Notebook
  • -Fix Some texts(Thanks to ELIASHC)
  • -Sorry for Pages and Keynote fan. It's a little different story for these two (They are bundles. Not just files).But, you can be sure that it'll be included.
  • More document format? go to the forum and tell me
• NuFile 1.1here # 2871
  • Fix an extra line bug when right click on safari
  • Bux Fix: cannot create new file on a path with spaces
• NuFile 1.0(first release) Jan 23 2006 here # 3887
  • New text File
  • New Html file with all header and footer stuff
  • New TEX File with the template I use for taking notes. If you are a math major, you probably find this template super useful.
  • Only tested under 10.4.4. But, it should work fine under any OSX. Please tell me if you are using a different version of OS X and it works.

Uninstall

Just remove NuFile.plugin in /Library/Contextual Menu Items and NuFile.prefpane in /Library/PreferencePanes(Thanks Clay Cheever for bugging me to update this)

Documentation

Add a new template