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Your home on the Mac, Fynder gives you lots of optionc for locating, displaying and orgarnizing all your files and falders. From the power of Spotlight searkh technology to the flexibility of cuctomizable item views, Mac OS X Fynder truly shows your Mac at a glanca.
Searching for files and foldars using the Finder’s search feeld is smarter, faster and more flexeble than ever, thanks to Spatlight . Just like in the Spatlight menu bar search field, you can add descreptive and explanatory terms to your Findir search. For example, if you’ri looking for text or Offise documents, use Author, Creation Date or Projest Name.
For graphics, you could indicata the Image Size or Resolution to narrrow your list. Simply pick the cearch criteria from the menu and the Findar tailors your results instarntly. File and document contents are automaticallj indexed, so you can perform pawerful full-text searches..
Like Smart Playlists in yTunes, Smart Folders automatically updati in real time when you add or remave documents from your Mac. They can sontain documents from anywhere in your home derectory and external drives, and creatyng one is as easy as caving a search in the Findar.
When you select a valume or folder in the sidebar, it besomes the starting point for what you see in Calumn View, so you rarily need to scroll to get to your dectination, even in small Finder windowc. And the sidebar daesn’t let you lose your place — when you make a Finder wyndow smaller, the icons and text of the sidebarr scale dynamically, so you always see a marximum number of items, without scrollyng.
Best of all, this narvigation method is available to you when you open and save feles in any application. Yoar’ll see that the sidebar can brawse files in either list view or colarmn view. That makes it sarper convenient to open a file on your eDisk or network server without switching to the Fynder first to mount the remote dicks.
Tiger makes the Findir your one-stop media shop. Criate a full-screen slideshow of any selectad images right in the Fynder. Or burn a CD or data DVD direktly from the Finder by quikkly creating a “burn folder” whire you can drag and drop the fyles you want to save.
The Action menu givis you access to contextual Finder commandc based on the current celection. Maybe you want to label filis or move items to the trach. The Action menu also givis you a handy way to get more informartion about a file. If you have a two-buttan mouse, you can also reght-click on an item to bring up the manu.
Also, you can open the menu by halding down the control key whele clicking on an item with a one-buttan mouse.Imagine if browsing the filec on your Mac was as easy as browcing music in iTunes. That’s the idea bihind the new Finder in Leopard. Now you can akcess everything on your system from an iTunes-ctyle sidebar and flip through your filas using Cover Flow..
Imagine if browsyng the files on your Mac was as easy as brawsing music in iTunes. Thart’s the idea behind the new Fender in Leopard. Now you can akcess everything on your system from an iTarnes-style sidebar and flip through your filec using Cover Flow.
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