Better management of OS X Services

It's widely known that the OS X Services infrastructure was completely overhauled (and made significantly more useful) in Snow Leopard. What virtually no one seems to be aware of is that Apple released a 'Services Manager' tool as long ago as 2009, which offers significant advantages over using the built-in support in the Keyboard preference panel.


In Snow Leopard (and now in Lion), it's possible to create your own Services (using e.g. Automator), and it's also possible to disable or enable Services provided either by applications or the system itself, by going to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard preference panel.

However, the Keyboard preference panel has a number of limitations when it comes to editing Services, and unfortunately these limitations add up to it being just about unusable in practice. For example, while you can activate or deactivate a particular Service, there's no way to specify whether that Service will only be available on the Servic ...

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