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FinderPop is Back!
FinderPop is back! I almost can't believe it, I'm so excited. FinderPop was one of those Mac OS 9 utilities that I absolutely couldn't live without. It made my days with Mac OS 9 bearable. And now this essential utility is available for Mac OS X.Here's how I use it. If you're like me, you tend to download a lot of graphics files, PDF's, and video files from the Internet. And while most of us know that it's easy to set the default application to be used to open, for instance, and .avi file, there's no easy way to select which application you want to open a particular file. And so you end up right-clicking on a file and navigating to the "Open With" contextual menu option and then waiting for your system to offer you a list of which applications can open that type of file. It works but is a bit cumbersome. FinderPop makes this process a lot easier by allowing you to list aliases to desired applications directly in the Finder's contextual menu. Like so:
And you can do this with any application and file types. Open a text file in a list of chosen word processors, or a PDF file with Preview instead of Acrobat Reader. Use DropStuff to stuff your files.
Of course you could litter your Dock with all these applications and get the same type of functionality, but I think FinderPop is a much slicker and more efficient way to manage this type of file/application launching.
Once you've gotten the hang of the core functionality of FinderPop, you'll discover there are many more things you can do with it. The included readme file explains.
FinderPop for Mac OS X is still in beta, but the author is actively working on it. Hooray, hooray, FinderPop is here to stay!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ZX said 7:30PM on 10-28-2005
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GG said 8:41PM on 10-28-2005
This is really awesome! FinderPop is the ONLY app I miss from OS 9. And it was Pintware, which meant you could donate money to the developer, an Irishman , so he could buy a pint of Guinness.
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Penginkun said 8:38PM on 10-28-2005
Which is...?
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afterglow said 10:15PM on 10-28-2005
I think he's Beamish stout man rather than Guinness. Finderpop saved me countless time on OS 9 and I was a bit grumpy about OS X initially due to its absence. May have been overtaken in some areas by now but it's menubar menu was still the best way of summoning up files/folders.
Go raibh maith agat Turly......
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David Schultz said 11:43PM on 10-28-2005
Oh my gudness... FP was my favorite OS 9 "haxie." The About Box was a novel within itself. I sent Turley money, it made my life that much easier. It was a sad day when I realized that he was not going to pursue similar development for OS X. Only recently with Unsanity's Fruit Menu did I feel like it was the good old FinderPop days again.
I gotta check out Turley's recent work and see how it compares.
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john spain said 1:48AM on 10-30-2005
while i see how this could be useful, this is yet again something I can't see justifying whatever impact it would make on my system (however infanatesimal) with the wee bit of functionality upgrade it would provide. See also: widgets.
Open with works just fine. Cool idea though.
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