Blasted Keeps Your Recent Stuff Close At Hand

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Blasted puts recent stuff in the Menu Bar

Now this looks interesting: Blasted is a Menu Bar app that quietly tracks what you’ve been working on – all the files you’ve created, opened, or modified recently – and makes them available when you need them via an unobtrusive icon.

It’s the work of Ted Roden, who also created the awesome Enjoys Things site.

Of course you could create somewhat similar functionality by creating a Smart Folder of recently modified items and putting it on your Dock, or even hack it into a Stack, but neither of those would seem to offer the neat simplicity of Blasted.

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The only drawback is that, right now, there’s no way to try Blasted before paying your money; perhaps not a big deal when we’re only talking about five dollars, but still let’s hope a trial version appears soon.

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  • pListOFF

    Why use this instead of Fresh from Ironic Software? Fresh does the same thing plus it has OpenMeta tagging, and a Cooler for keeping an eye on specific files. It’s only $9 and a trial IS available. XD

  • http://gilest.org Giles Turnbull

    pListOFF: Good tip. I’d completely forgotten about Fresh, which is also an excellent app that does the same sort of job.

  • Ken Cohen

    If you have Default Folder, you already have a comprehensive version of this capability. There is also a Recent Items in the Apple menu, and it’s not difficult to put that in the Dock.

  • Fat Gorilla

    Fresh gives you PREVIEW icons of the files. So if you have DSC008999 and DSC003281 – and you want to email the correct one – you can tell just by looking at the preview.

  • http://www.snubcommunications.com Craig Grannell

    Note that we had Fresh on this very site as a favourite a while back: here’s the link

  • http://gilest.org Giles Turnbull

    Thanks for that Craig :)

  • Church of Apple

    What are those other menu bar icons?

  • Jon

    Im not sure if im missing something, but why even pay for something like this when you have the Recent Documents/Apps/Servers menu in the Apple Menu?

  • http://web.me.com/marcusrodrigues Marcus Rodrigues

    How about clicking the Apple Menu and chosing Recent Items? It costs nothing.. has preview icons… and comes with the System…

  • David

    I just made a stack that contains all of my recent files…

  • Steve

    But does it have a ‘Porn’ mode like Safari? Sometimes you view files that you don’t want recorded for easy retrieval.
    ;-)

  • Cowicide

    Seriously, how is this much better than Apple’s recent items which is free?