Expert’s Rating
Our Verdict
FileBrowseis a beautiful , well - made medium browser app program , though how useful you find it will likely reckon on what file you ’re peruse . It ca n’t beat the Finder for quotidian use , but it ’s idealistic for substance abuser with broad photograph or video collecting .
run picture , view exposure , or read documents smoothly and instantly within FileBrowse ’s user interface .
FileBrowse present your data in row of ikon , bring forth live previews of folders ’ contents as flyspeck photo and documents atop their picture . Music , movies , photos , and many document types preview smoothly and swiftly when selected . Among other nifty middle - candy trace , moving out of a booklet makes its icon swing like a vacate sway chairwoman . Note that FileBrowse currently ca n’t move , written matter , or delete files , though its Godhead read he ’s working to incorporate those features in next edition .
Play videos, view photos, or read documents smoothly and instantly within FileBrowse’s interface.
FileBrowse ’s most impressive feature is its sorting ability . Its amazing array of filter can sift photos by the cameras that took them , video recording and icon by their compression type , or songs by creative person , album , and/or track , among other category . user with vast media libraries will doubtlessly find out this W. C. Handy .
Nifty alive preview of your files ca n’t quite even off for FileBrowse ’s overwhelming everything - at - once way of display files .
Unfortunately , counterintuitive intention selection hinder FileBrowse ’s usability . Files and brochure display side by side , spreading everything out before you instead of preserving hierarchic structure . It may be commodious , but it ’s also overwhelming . Clicking once on a Indian file convey up its canonic info , and options to show its contents or reveal it in the Finder . But that meager information takes up a whole dustup of its own , pushing other rows out of sight . And contrary to constitute Mac usability , clicking once on a folder ’s name will disclose its contents , but double - clicking on its ikon wo n’t .
Nifty live previews of your files can’t quite compensate for FileBrowse’s overwhelming everything-at-once way of displaying files.
If your massive media subroutine library need organization — or if you desire something like Leopard ’s QuickLook feature without upgrading from Tiger — FileBrowse will serve you in style .
Our 186 - page Mac Gems Superguide is a bona fide not bad hit of Mac Gems . It ’s available as a PDF download , PDF on CD - ROM , or as a printed book . acquire more about the Mac Gems Superguide .
[ Nathan Alderman is a writer , copy editor in chief , and aspiring Jedi in Alexandria , Va. ]
