The fact that OS X still has no central FileTypes preferences panel for controlling associations between file types and the applications they launch in, defining new file types, seeing and editing metadata associated with filetypes, etc. is, IMO, a glaring omission from OS X. BeOS, of course, had File Types nailed. OS X has inherited and expanded on a lot of great ideas from BeOS over the past few years, but for some reason still keeps this kind of control out of the user’s hands (you can set the application associated with a file, or with all files “of this type” from Info property panels, but seriously – this kind of functionality should be baked into the system preferences panel.
The excellent RCDefaultApp gives you the control you’re looking for. Let’s just hope something similar is in Leopard.
Screw filetypes… I want Replicants back.
Dang, there’s a word I haven’t heard for a jillion years. Had forgotten all about them! You’re right – that’s another BeOS category for which there’s no equivalent in OS X (unless you count Dashboard as being sorta similar).
I’d ask for a real filesystem before file typing or Replicants. We’ll see if Tiger has ZFS.
“real” is a pretty loaded term.
Scot,
More Internet is also a cool tool that does some of the same stuff.
http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/moreInternet/
JDC