DEVONtechnologies introduces Tiger updates and PDF2RTF Service

By C.K. Sample, III

I love the Services Menu. DEVONtechnologies, makers of my favorite little database program, DEVONthink, just sent me a Newsletter about Tiger updates to their free Service Menu items: "We've just updated EasyFind, HotService and WordService and added a brand new filter service for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, PDF2RTFService.
. . . PDF2RTFService 1.0 allows all Cocoa applications that can read RTF files to open PDF, PostScript and EPS files as styled and paginated rich text documents. It has never been easier to re-use the contents of a PDF, PostScript or EPS file!" This is cool.

EasyFind is a freeware app, meant as a Sherlock replacement, so I don't know how useful it will prove post-Spotlight. HotService activates the shortcuts for all Mac OS X services immediately after launching Cocoa applications, and WordService "provides 34 functions to convert, format or speak the currently selected text, to insert data or to show statistics of the selection within all Cocoa applications . . . and Carbon applications supporting services."

Here's the page where you can download them, and here's where you can find more information about them. 

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