Binary: Universal
Requirements: Mac 10.3 - later
Price: Pintware
Test Rig: MacBook 1.83 GHz / 4GB RAM / 10.5.2

Religiously, I''m an atheist. But if something were to make me believe in a god, this piece of software is that something. I have bit waiting and crossing every digit that I have hoping for this app to be updated. I have been using this ever since we were given the ability to right click on a Mac. All bow before FinderPop 2.1.

THE JUICE

"FinderPop is a preference pane that extends OS X's contextual menus using a FinderPop Items folder much as the Apple Menu Items folder used to do for the Apple menu. It has other features too: Control-free popup in the Finder - handy for those with one-button mice. a launcher that takes up zero screen real estate, merely a click on any blank area of menubar away,
a handy filesystem browser, allowing quick and easy access to files and disks in the Finder,
a Processes menu (Command-click a blank menubar area.) fast access to 'Where's that dratted file I had on the Desktop?' (Shift-Click a blank menubar area.)
a comprehensive collection of vaguely beer-related aphorisms in the Aboutbox"

And now that we have Frames in Leopard, the two combined are starting me to thinking about jettisoning my mouse and working purely from the keyboard. There isn't a thing that I need that isn't, at most, two keystrokes away!

THE PULP

Nada.

THE RIND

Nada.

SUMMARY

In my software kit of tools, I can think of no other application that I can't do without. And for the price of a pint (buy Turly two!) you can have this dispense-less piece of software. Trust me. Try it and see if you aren't ready to give Turly a whole dang brewery. May the wind always be at your back ...

RATING : 11 of 10

2008 Frank Petrie