CDFinder Upgraded
CDFinder has saved me countless hours of searching CD archives of literally thousands of files dating back to the mid 1990s when CD burners first appeared on the scene. For me, the best thing about CDFinder is its ease of use -- shove in a CD, it's cataloged. Eject it and shove in another one -- it's cataloged too. It catalogs any data disk, CD-ROM, DVD, iPod, network volume, Audio-CD, and more. Spend an afternoon thusly, cataloging your CDs, and you'll be able to find any file quickly and easily.
With this new release, CDFinder masters the third transition in its life of ten years. First to the PowerPC, then to Mac OS X, and now to the new Intel-Macs. Every time, CDFinder was the first (PowerPC and Mac OS X), or among the first to benefit from the exciting new Macintosh abilities.
Several unique features set CDFinder apart from the rest of the crowd. CDFinder can
import 8 catalog formats of other vendors
- read exhaustive photo and audio meta data (JPG, TIFF, PICT, BMP, EXIF, IPTC, MP3, AAC, WAVE, AIFF)
- catalog the contents of 6 archive file formats
- catalog Audio-CDs
- use AppleScript to integrate CDFinder into any workflow
- search your local data with Spotlight
- find data based on every available meta data piece that CDFinder can catalog, and be used in a cross-platform network with CDWinder for Windows
Contents of archive files can be cataloged as well, including StuffIt, StuffIt Deluxe, Compact Pro, ZIP (used by Mac OS X), TAR, .rar, and others.
The CDFinder application contains the user interface translated into several languages: German, French, English, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, and Dutch.
Together with CDWinder for Windows, (www.cdwinder.de/) this is a unique cross platform, network solution to catalog disks and CD-ROMs on a Macintosh and a PC.
CDFinder requires Mac OS X 10.4 or newer As a Universal Binary, it runs native on PowerPC and Intel-Macs.A CDFinder Private License starts at $39, several Business Licensesare available.
New in CDFinder 5.0:
Brand new user interface: CDFinder now uses all the cool and modern visual technologies of Mac OS X. All list windows can be switched between the list and a new icon view mode, and the display size of items can be scaled to any value. Navigation menus ease your path through your data, and you can now even view catalog contents in the list mode directly without the need of a separate window
Lists: The main CDFinder window now has two lists, additionally to the catalog list, it can now display the contents of any selected catalog in a second list
Thumbnails and Previews: CDFinder can now catalog thumbnail previews for photo and image files of several types (JPG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, PSD, PNG, GIF, BMP, and several RAW formats). These beautifully rendered thumbnails are of course being displayed everywhere
Full Unicode support: All new catalogs created by CDFinder 5.0 now contain the full Unicode file names, comments, and such. Direct integration with Roxio Toast Titanium 8.0: After Toast burns a CD or DVD, it will launch CDFinder and pass it the information about the newly created disc
Direct integration into applications such as Apple Pages, Apple Keynote, Adobe InDesign, and Quark XPress: If the source volume is online, you can now drag any file from CDFinder directly into an open document of the other application -- Improved integration with FileMaker Pro: A sample database document shows you how to run a CDFinder Find command from inside FileMaker, and how to display the results
new templates for the Cover Print feature, including several really beautifully designed ones
This is a free upgrade and due to the amazing amount of powerful new features very recommended!
The new version can be obtained from the CDFinder Web Site
http://www.cdfinder.de/
Download: www.cdfinder.de/downloads.html
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