“Apple’s latest version of OS X Lion contains a plethora of new features that are being uncovered piece by piece now that the preview version is in the hands of developers,” Kelly Hodgkins reports for TUAW. “One little gem recently discovered is a new section in the Finder called ‘All My Files.’ This feature helps you organize your files by criteria, such as file type, file creation date and last opened date.”
Hodgkins reports, “The icon for this new section is an image of a filing drawer stuffed with documents and dividers. Zooming in on the documents within this icon, one can see writing that is taken from notable quotes delivered by Steve Jobs and Apple.”
Full article, with the icon, here.
Nice touch.
Interesting. . . Apple returning to drawer metaphor for organizing files. Anyone remember the first hard disk for the Apple Macintosh, the General Computer HyperDrive? It created an icon on the desktop in the shape of a drawer or filing cabinet.
Ah yes… cracking the 512k (aka “Fat Mac”) to put a 20 MB hard drive inside… oh those were the days.
The ‘drawer’ metaphor for all documents sounds like what we’re using on the iPad (iOS).
Within a year or two, I fully expect the Mac operating system to be transformed into something that’s almost identical to iOS. The adoption of numerous iOS elements in the recent Lion developer releases makes this trend clear.
That will inject some new life into the Mac’s operating system, possibly make the 400,000 apps designed for iOS also available on Macs, and make is super-easy for any iPhone or iPad user to transition to a Mac (rather than PC) for their next computer purchase.
And for developers to begin writing Mac apps, too – not just because of the similar UI conventions but also the familiarity of the APIs.
We need more Easter Eggs in OS X. Miss ’em.
I had a plethora once, but the wheels fell off.
You ought to try a cornucopia – better gas mileage than a plethora and really handy around Thanksgiving!
I once left in a Huff
But a Rage is certainly more impressive…
My wife once arrived in a Snit.
lol…..
It’s amassing how apple will take time to add little things like that!! 😀
This is another /BIG/ reason I bought a mac. 😀
I LOVE YOU APPLE!!!!
LONG LIVE STEVE!!!!
Does it really amass you? 😉
And, like I mentioned in my post yesterday…..
Little nuggets like this used to be commonplace, it’s great to see this sort of spirit stiil survives.
More please . . .
Anybody else would have used Lorum Ipsum!
but the search function of “All My Files” appears to have a bug. it can’t find a specific .MOV file and it it ignores all my .MOV files except one when not searching by filename.