FruitMenu is a wonderful little hack for OSX that makes the Apple menu behave a bit more like it did back in good ol' OS9. Granted, some of you may not want that; you can stop reading this review now.
For the rest of us, though, we're just not happy with how the Apple menu behaves. We don't need a constant link to Get MacOS Software, or change our Location all the time. This is where FruitMenu really shines.
It actually improves upon the old Apple menu functionality. Before, it just was a place to store aliases of stuff you used all the time (programs, folders, etc). Now you can not only store all of those there (you can also rename the aliases with spaces at the beginning to rearrange the order and not have their names in the Apple menu show any difference), but you can also add other functions.
For example, this is how my Apple menu is currently setup: System Preferences menu (with all of the individual control panels listed in the submenu, just like the Control Panels of OS9), then my directories for my copies of evula.com and evula.org on this machine ("this machine" being my PowerBook, as opposed to my G4 tower, which doesn't have X on it right now). After that come the Airport Admin program and the folder with all of my School stuff in it. At the bottom, I've got my three Recent folders (Applications, Items, and Folders, all nicely seperated, unlike in the stock Apple menu), and the Logout function.
FruitMenu allows you to add much more to the Apple menu; that's all I have in mine because, simply, I don't need the rest. But you can make submenus with aliases inside, or put the Sleep/Shut Down/Restart options anywhere in the menu, or have "Bring all windows to the front" at the top (or bottom, for that matter) of the Apple menu. You can also display your IP address in the Apple menu. To keep everything nice and organized, you can add seperators between items.
However, FruitMenu adds to more than just your Apple menu. You can also customize your contextual menus (the ones that pop up if you control-click or right-click) and add features. I've got "Selected Folder Contents" and "Add to FruitMenu Items" in mine, but you can also set pictures as your desktop, as well as do some of the things that you can also do in your Apple menu (such as display your IP or have a Restart option right in your contextual menu).
There are also some controls to help you so that your FruitMenu experience isn't, well, fruity. You can set the level up submenus displayed (for example, you could go only one folder deep, or five, or unlimited), and you can also set submenus to be displayed in a smaller font (which I am quite fond of). You can also exclude programs from FruitMenu's influence; I've yet to come across a program where I needed to, though.
For a mere $7, FruitMenu is a great deal. In addition, you can pick up the other Unsanity products (such as Labels X) at a buck off each if you order one of them at full price. I was able to pick up three extensions for less than twenty bucks; definetly money well spent.