“Apple has significantly updated the Finder for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, introducing some things old, some things new, some things borrowed, and, well, the icon is still blue,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.
McLean covers:
• The history of the Finder — all the way back to its origins
• Mac OS X FInder — 10.0-10.4
• “Fixing the Finder”
• The Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Finder
• Leopard Toolbar: Cover Flow and Quick Look
• Finder Spotlight Search
“Despite being ‘all new,’ the Finder is really a clean refinement of what we already have in Tiger,” McLean writes. “There are lots of subtle, useful updates and new technologies.”
Full article with screenshots here.
More about Leopard’s Finder – including demo movies – via Apple here.
Maybe they could fix whatever it is that makes applications want to jump in front of others when they want attention. It’s ridiculous.
Whatever happened to just bouncing the icon in the dock?
Also, the switching back and forth between view modes in a single Finder window has got to go.
You have some option or preference set Moo, it doesn’t happen with me…
Maybe they could make it more like Windows Vista. I’m rockin’ Vista right here at work. It’s cool. The MAC ‘Finder’ or whatever you lemmings call it is a mishmash of windows and icons. I have no idea what I’m doing when I use a MAC.
I hate to use multi-syllable words on this forum but Vista uses a desktop metaphor. Looks like Apple is trying to re-interpret the hard work done in Redmond but something when horribly wrong in Cupertino. Vista is so easy to use, but robust and powerful at the same time and the effects are gorgeous. Nice job, Microsoft!
Your potential. Our passion.
Hey Zune Tang!
Can you send me a copy of the Vista OS you are running? Seems the copy of Vista we have here at the office SUCKS!
Here’s something I just noticed:
On Apple’s “Finder” preview site, there’s two screenshots of the desktop. If you look at the dock, and look at Mail.app, you’ll notice that the red notification starburst telling you how many unread emails you have is on a different side for each picture.
In the front picture it’s on the left, while the one in the back it’s on the right.
Small detail, I know…
@ Zune Tang
You are a brainwashed Microsoft patsy, Zune.
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Zune Tang – “I have no idea what I’m doing…”
Zune Tang has no idea what he’s doing. Period.
Hey! Zune Tang is right boys, Apple stole the OS from Microsoft! If you can’t see this you are brainwashed children of Satan!
Long live Speak n Spell!!!!!
“You have some option or preference set Moo, it doesn’t happen with me…”
Try saving a big Photoshop file. While it’s saving switch to iChat….
start typing in the iChat window.. when Photoshop is done saving it switches to Photoshop and you are usually left typing into your PS doc… lots of apps do that. iTunes does for sure… there is no pref.
Hey you guys, cool it on the Zune Tang man, he lives right next door to me. He’s a good neighbor, keeps his lawn mowed and the yard picked up. Just because he doesn’t have a single flower, tree or shrub in the yard, and never says anything but “good morning” (even when it’s afternoon or evening), never paints his house anything but dark gray and has only one window in the front of his house, does not make him weird or bad – maybe a little lacking in imagination, but that’s all.
Zune Tang used to be funny, but now the humor is as old, stale, and unimaginative as Microsoft software.
Hey all you irony-impaired mouthbreathers: Are you really so literal-minded as to take “Zune Tang” at face value? If so, then you belong on PCs. GTFO the Mac and go back to your Dells and Gateways. Sheesh.
Yo Tang,
You forgot to add the ™!
“I have no idea what I’m doing when I use a MAC.”
That’s because you’re not a qualified network admin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
Moo is right. This happens to me… often enought to be irritating, not often enough to try to fix it. BAD feature.
Wherever you are working should STAY the active application until you DECIDE to switch to another app.
Keep at it Zuney. Whatever you write is usually enough good for a chuckle or two. You literal minded drones should go back to your creationist fantasy world.
I read this yesterday. This seems to be occuring more and more often the last few months…
What’s wrong MDN? Not getting enough revenues from the 302,000 ads per page, so you had to get a real job?
Maybe it’s time MDN change it’s tag line to “Yesterday’s Apple News… Today”
“Maybe it’s time MDN change it’s tag line to ‘Yesterday’s Apple News… Today'”
I think it’s a simple mistake. They’ve been using a beta of Time Machine and accidentally had it set on yesterday instead of tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is just today, then.
Assholes who lamely attempt to defend Zune Tang for his pathetic, stale, and uninspired attempts to be funny are even more pathetic than he is, (or else it’s Zune Tang trying real hard to explain to us that he’s being witty and cool.
Zune Tang is not funny. He used to be, once or twice several months ago, but not now, he’s just pathetic.
piggy… who’s the asshole now?
That would be Mr. Reeee
It makes me cringe when I read these comments and come across a post by ZuneTang. Not because of the drivel he writes but because of all the posts that will follow in response to it. Can’t you folks just ignore the hell out of him?
LZ –
Deep breath, friend. MDN is primarily a news/feature aggregator. If you have time to read all the individual sites for their content, then you really don’t need MDN. This site’s for the rest of us.
CoverFlow in Finder is a total gimmick. It’s very pretty, but useless. CoverFlow in iTunes is also pretty but useless. A graphical resource hog that is hopelessly inefficient at finding anything unless you’re only flipping through 5 items. Shame Apple didn’t focus their design on some more useful paradigms and less on pointless eye candy.
I think I remember it mentioned some time ago that MDN was based in Canada (I could be wrong). As it was a holiday (Thanksgiving) for us yesterday it may have been a turkey dinner that caused the “delay”.