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  • Jun 25, 2007
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  • James, You're making yourself look silly. Who cares if some people agree with some of your points or your premises if your conclusion is silly? Besides, why on Earth would I want to load the entire hard drive into memory? Why does it have to be useful for every type of file? Why does it have to be "the" solution to the problem that is the finder? I could make all of those points about ANY application and ANY feature in the OS, couldn't I? " The Finder needs a real, honest-to-goodness overhaul. Bolting on more eye candy and calling it a solution isn’t really going to fool anybody. And I don’t care how pretty it looks if it isn’t functional!" Well, the problem is that it *is* functional. At least if you have a need to scan visual previews of files. "The Finder is no different. All of the slick animation in the world isn’t going to change the fact that a better way of doing things is needed. " Well, that would have been a much better topic for an article. What exactly are you proposing?
    Galen777 had this to say on Jun 25, 2007 Posts: 2
    Cover Flow is Pretty, but Fairly Useless
  • I find this article rather disappointing. Cover Flow can only be useless if you don't have a particular use for it. I do a lot of photography, image editing, and page layout. I'm sure cover flow and quick look will be exceptionally useful. The idea that a photographer would use something like iPhoto is just ridiculous. It's slow, awful, awkward. I personally think it's an absolute embarassment to OS X. When I'm sorting and organizing hundreds of photos, I've long relied on the Finder, Preview, and Automator (for tagging, filing, renaming, etc) Cover Flow will be an immense help to me. Even if it's a little slow right now, the rate at which the performance of computers increases it will be wonderful in a year or so. There's plenty of other things about Leopard that I do find ridiculous, however. iChat with PhotoBooth effects? Time Machine? The Menu bar? There's much to be disappointed with. Cover Flow isn't one of them.
    Galen777 had this to say on Jun 25, 2007 Posts: 2
    Cover Flow is Pretty, but Fairly Useless