My thoughts on the finder

With Tiger, Apple introduced something called coverflow to all finder windows. I cannow tell you how much I enjoy this feature.

Let me make the following case. Say that you are in your office and have to quickly look for a document lying on your desk. Do you go through all of the titles of the documents to find it or do you glance the documents to find the one you are looking for? You glace them. This is the way in which coverflow makes it very quick to find the document you are looking for. The scroll button on the mouse acts as a convenient and quick way to browse through the documents and coverflow draws them in very near real time. It recognizes most document formats in addition to photos, videos, drawings etc. It really is a pleasure to work with.

The finder interface is simple en effective but there is one thing missing in my view. It really needs to have a folder tree view for simpler navigation of deeper folder structures. That said, it is not as necessary on a mac to have deep folders to effectively file documents since spotlight becomes a iron tool in instantly finding documents no matter where they are filed. Another important thing to remember is that you always have quickview under your finger and can instantly enlarge any file you see in finder to reveal its content without having to open it in the application used to create it.

One other difference between the finder and explorer is the way in which you have to copy and move files. It is actually a little difficult to move files to other folders since you don't have a folder tree on the side. You have to either have two windows open to do the move or rely on copy and paste.

I can therefore give the experience as a whole 8 1/2 out of 10.