custom OS X services

Tinnef Software has released Text Wielder, a text processing application which can be used to create and provide custom services via the Mac OS X service menu. Services can be used to process text, generate and open URLs, generate and execute Applescripts, display processed text in a dialog box, or create new text files. The Text Wielder service menu can be edited using the built-in Service Manager which allows users to add, rename, and remove services from the service menu. Text Wielder comes with over 120 services and users can create their own using SFRL(Simple Find and Replace Language)*, a new technology made specifically for Text Wielder. The application includes services for search at Google.com; search the Internet with Sherlock, clean up an email, get a map for a zipcode or city, track a Fedex/UPS/USPS Package on the Web, look up a stock quote, and more.

Text Wielder allows users to create SFRL scripts which can be used both as services or directly in the built-in text editor. SFRL uses a modified regular expression syntax to define text input and processes output using a JavaServer Page(JSP)**. This combination of regular expressions and JSPs makes SFRL an extremely powerful text processing language with access to the full Java API and Cocoa API.

Text Wielder runs on Mac OS X 10.2 or later and is available for $30 or as a time-limited demo.

by MacNN Staff