At last, someone had some creative inspiration. Of course it really wasn’t creative genius — all they had to do is ask “What really sucks about Tiger’s Folder Actions?” and they probably got ten-thousand answers.
The folder actions in OS X are one of the truly disappointing things about the OS. They’re not even as functional as they were in OS 8. (At least in the older OS you could drag and hover to open a folder, then drag and hover over an internal folder to open for nesting files. Not under X unfortunately!)
So, when Yellow Lemon Software rolled out the latest release of FolderGlance, I thought it might be a good idea to take a look.
FolderGlance is a powerful utility for browsing files and folders directly from the Finder’s contextual menus. Not only that, but FolderGlance also lets you preview files directly from the contextual menus, as well as move, copy and make aliases of selected files at locations they browse to. Using FolderGlance, digging into packages becomes a simple matter of holding down a modifier key.
At last, someone had some creative inspiration. Of course it really wasn’t creative genius — all they had to do is ask “What really sucks about Tiger’s Folder Actions?” and they probably got ten-thousand answers.
The main new feature of this latest version is support for control-free popups in the Finder. Now I can now simply click-and-hold on files and folders in the Finder, and after a brief delay, the contextual menu appears. There are numerous other features, including the ability to add custom folders to the Finder’s contextual menus for fast and easy access, as well as configuring a custom Open With menu.
Here’s the best part: FolderGlance is free. (They will graciously accept your donations!)
FolderGlance 2.0 is available for download:
http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/YLS/FolderGlance.dmg.zip
Screenshots and more information is available over here:
http://home.online.no/~stoedle/YLS/YLS-products/FolderGlance.html
Thanks for reading…
About Yellow Lemon Software
Yellow Lemon Software has been developing software for the Mac since 1996, with
its two most successful products being FolderGlance and Desktop Transporter.
Yellow Lemon Software is based in Tromso, Norway.
