FileBrowse: Browse Your Files In A 3D Environment
Apple October 1st, 2006One of the publics major gripes about OSX 1.4 Tiger is the Finder, it’s clearly outgrown it’s life, and it’s showing. Many cant wait for Leopard (including myself) to see what Apple does to the Finder. In the meantime, there is another app in town…
FileBrowse is a new, easy-to-use file/media browser for Mac OS X with many unique features, such as 3D icons/thumbnails, large in-context previews, and powerful grouping and sorting.
It lets you view files and media content on your Mac using features lacking in the Finder, such as thumbnails for most common file types, including images, movies, songs, PDF, RTF, Word documents, and Web pages.
For example, if you have a folder with images in it, FileBrowse will show miniature icons and thumbnails of the items inside, and large previews for most file types. This comes in really handy if your searching for a particular folder of images but dont want to keep clicking on folders to find it. FileBrowse will generate previews of files inside folders to help you pinpoint what your after.
You can’t perform file management tasks with this application yet. If you wish to copy/move or delete a file/folder then you are recommended to select the desired object and then press Command + Return to select the object in Finder.
In the limited testing I’ve put it through, I see potential in this application not as a Finder replacement, but a very advanced, speedy Preview application.
You can check out a video I produced of FileBrowse in action here.
October 1st, 2006 at 9:35 pm
hmmm i saw this on digg a few hours ago but i thought it removed the finder to install that, but looking at that its not soo bad another thing i must put on the give a try list although i might bump it up to the 1st item
October 2nd, 2006 at 2:09 am
It’s a really bad app. I wouldn’t want another extra finder-like app floating around. And, to be honest, it’s a bit pointless to have more apps doing the same things as others floating around. It’s not even really 3D.
My two cents.