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Our favorite feature? As in older versions of Default Folder, when saving a document, if you click in the open window of any folder on your Desktop, you instantly select that folder as your file’s final resting place. Like previous OS 8 and OS 9 versions, Default Folder X remembers your favorite folders, keeps them handy when you’re saving any document, and allows you to associate applications with folders (for instance, opening a “Logos” folder when you’re saving an Illustrator file). If you dislike horizontally scrolling through OS X’s columnar views every time you try to save a file,you’ll appreciate Default Folder X, winner of Macworld’s 2002 Editors’s Choice Awards.

Oh, yeah, and DragThing also lets you put the Trash Can back on the Desktop, as the Lord intended. DragThing also lets you navigate via hierarchical contextual pop-up menus (a trick the OS X Dock now performs as well). Not only does DragThing launch your favorite documents, folders, applications, and URLs, it lets you to assign hot keys to these items, so you can launch (or switch to) Fetch or Photoshop-or open any folder or document on your hard drive-with the press of a key. The palette at upper left keeps track of open applications and lets you switch between them.) (In the Screenshot, the application palettes at left show DragThing in action.

Most of these essential add-ons have made the transition to X: DragThingĮven if you like the OS X Dock (and it does have its strong points), you’ll still love, need, and cherish DragThing, finalist for “Best Productivity Utility” in the Macworld 18th annual Editors’s Choice Awards. Shareware add-ons turned OS 9 into a thing of power and beauty. Using OS 9 straight out of the box was like exploring the web with Netscape 1.0. Whereas font management in OS 9 could be explained in six words (“Drag font suitcase onto System Folder”), whole O’Reilly books have been written about font management in OS X, and the authors of those books always commit suicide after writing them. OS X is swell in many ways, but coherent font management is not one of them.

#MAC OS FINDERPOP INSTALL#

Even if you’re not a designer, you may want to install Suitcase. If you do any graphic design work, you’ll need Extensis Suitcase 10 (just as you needed it in OS 9). If you do it right, your new Mac’s screen will look like this (screenshot).

#MAC OS FINDERPOP SOFTWARE#

If your old machine ran OS 9 and your new one runs OS X, you’ll spend like a father of twelve replacing old software with new. Not to mention restoring your preferences before finally moving all your documents to the new machine. You’ll spend the next two weeks installing all your applications, utilities, peripheral drivers, accessories, custom Photoshop palettes, and painstakingly hand-crafted email filters.

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