Having been a Windows user since before Windows even existed, I found MacOS / OSX on my Macbook to be full of a number of irritations or things just completely missing from the operating system.
As a Windows user I find certain things in OSX to be a bit backward, but considering that Microsoft originally stole the Windows idea from Apple, who in turn stole it from someone else it’s hard to say who has what backwards.
The biggest irritation for me in OSX is the Finder application. It is the most unimaginative useless archaic and crap piece of software I’ve ever seen.
Microsoft and the Linux world at least seem capable of producing decent file managers but Apple seems stuck on releasing new versions of their OS and never making any changes or enhancements to their file manager and I often wonder what thinking processes (if any) take place in the minds of Apple’s software engineers when it comes to the Finder.
Search Google and you’ll find thousands of people bitching about Finder because it can’t do this or can’t do that but as experience has shown, Apple much like other software giants (Adobe, Microsoft etc) pay very little attention to what users want or need and instead focus on telling the users what they need.
Now OSX is about to enter it’s 8th version and I can pretty much guarantee that Apple will spend it’s time (as usual) on Eye Candy improvements and version 10.7 (Lion), expected to be released in Summer 2011, will see users once again faced with the same crappy Finder application.
So what do you do?
You search for replacements to Finder and find a bunch of different paid solutions all promising their’s is best but after trying them all I found only one that rules the roost and is everything that Finder should be, could be and more.
The application I am talking about is called Pathfinder and is produced by a company called CocoaTech. Their web site is at http://www.cocoatech.com and they have a fully functioning 30 day trial of the product.
The purchase prices is $39.95 which is an absolute steal and it’s something every Mac user should BUY. Don’t download free hacked or cracked versions of Pathfinder, buy the damn thing and help the author to keep developing and improving the product.
Pathfinder is simply amazing and this one single application has restored my faith in OSX. It’s hardly a matter of asking what Pathfinder can do but instead asking what can’t it do and for me there’s nothing it cannot do. It’s highly customisable, has a dual pane system, supports tabs, enhanced file info and file properties, built in stuffit archive manager and soooo much more.
If you want some good solid advice on an improvement to your OSX experience it’s BUY PATHFINDER TODAY and be gone with those irritations.
Kudo’s to Cocoatech (www.cocoatech.com) for an incredible product and I hope to see it grow well into the future.
I must make it clear I do not work for and have no affiliation with Cocoatech, hell I don’t even get any commission or referral bonus for this, I just love the product and believe other OSX users should know about it. The more people that buy it, the more the developer is able to enhance the product and keep it alive.
