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Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications)
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Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications)


  • Subject: Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications)
  • From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:17:49 -0700


On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:

A number of Mac apps are delivered in disk images configured that way. Firefox has already been mentioned. As I recall, we were also inspired by the disk image for Bare Bones' TextWrangler <http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ >.


I believe the whole origin of this trend was Fetch, or at least, they were the first to write about it: <http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/02/easy-access-to-application-folder-from-a-disk.html >

Of course, I found out about it because the article plugs one of my weekend projects as a core component. :)

And now we're going OT, so I'll stop.

Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>

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 >Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications) (From: Alex Kac <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications) (From: "Paul Sanders" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Moving oneself to /Applications (or ~/Applications) (From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>)

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