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diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.11.07/Tue/findersucks.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.11.07/Tue/findersucks.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d436b17 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.11.07/Tue/findersucks.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Leopard's New Finder: Yawn Inducing + +The much anticipated preview of OS X 10.5 at yesterday's WWDC ended up heavy on the eye candy and light on the useful features. + +Perhaps the most interesting news from yesterday's WWDC was Steve Jobs' demo of the revamped Finder for Leopard. Finder, OS X's file management application, is perhaps the most neglected application in the OS, and while Finder has gained some additional features, Jobs was clearly pushing the "wow" of the new eye candy. + +Coverflow for the Finder?! Just what users need -- an interface metaphor that mimics the inefficient browsing methods of a 1950s file cabinet. It could just be me, but Coverflow is about as useful as a warm bucket of hamster vomit when it comes to actually finding things. + +But enough of the superfluous eye candy, surely there's something in the new Finder that's worth the price of an upgrade? + +And there are two genuinely useful things in Leopard's new Finder which bring the app, if not fully up to speed, at least closer to being a useful file browser. + +The revamped sidebar with its list of networked drives and saved searches is nice and potentially useful, especially given the number of users who are setting up home networks. + +Quickview is also great especially since Preview remains, after Finder, the next least useful app on the OS. What would be really nice is if Quickview were a slightly lower-level tool that other apps could utilize -- for instance Apple's Mail.app. + +In fact, what would be really nice is if Cocoatech's wonderful Finder replacement, [PathFinder][3], could leverage Quickview since the rest of Leopard's "new" features have been part of Cocoatech's application for at least two years now. + +(Note: It's entirely possible that Quickview *is* available to other apps, so far it's hard to tell from Apple's limited feature details.) + +While Quickview and the revamped Sidebar are welcome additions, they're hardly revolutionary similar features are already available to OS X users through a number of third party apps like PathFinder, [Filegazer][1], [FinderPop][2] and others. + +Leopard photo found at [webshots][4]. + +[1]: http://www.donelleschi.com/filegazer/ "Filegazer" +[2]: http://www.finderpop.com/ "FinderPop" +[3]: http://www.cocoatech.com/pf4/ "PathFinder" +[4]: http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1182729638021450172TdYBIe "Leopard Yawning 4"
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