Blasted puts recent files in your OS X menubar
When you're working with a bunch of different files on a Mac, it can be a pain to remember where each one of them saved, where your downloads ended up, and what you've recently opened. Blasted puts all your recent files right in the menubar, making it extremely easy to find what you were just working on. It's hard to believe there's nothing like Blasted built into OS X. You can add various recent items to your Dock with a quick Terminal command, or access them from the Apple menu, but neither of those options give you the control that Blasted does. You can decide what categories of files show up in Blasted's menu, and even set a list of individual files and folders to leave out.
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Subscribe to commentsJeffSep 27th 2009 2:41PM
"It's hard to believe there's nothing like Blasted built into OS X"
This is built into OSX. Apple Menu -> Recent Items.
EvenioSep 27th 2009 3:22PM
Jay then went on to mention the functionality Blasted has which the Apple menu lacks. "Nothing like" is indeed an exaggeration, though. I get the impression from his description that Blasted is more like the third-party love-child of the Recent Items menu and Smart Folders.
ShawnSep 27th 2009 9:17PM
This functionality IS built into OS X as Jeff mentioned. Here is another way to save $5.
Simply open Terminal and type in:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
(make sure the above is all on one line)
Then type:
killall Dock
to restart your Dock.
This will create a recent items stack on your Dock. Right click it to change between recent apps/docs/etc.
If you don't like it, just drag it off the Dock like any other Stack.
ShawnSep 27th 2009 9:22PM
EDIT: To clarify, right-clicking this Dock item will allow you to decide what categories of files show up in its menu, like Blasted.
My personal opinion is that the only difference with Blasted seems to be that you can set a list of individual files and folders to leave out, which doesn't seem worth $5..
deeOct 4th 2009 5:15AM
dude... that's amazing. To me, anyway.
LeMerlotSep 30th 2009 5:16AM
I bought Blasted but I’m not so happy with it - since I also bought Fresh which offers the same functionality but much more configuration options:
http://www.ironicsoftware.com/fresh/index.html
I think Fresh’s features are (at least) the benchmark for Blasted.