How did you find out about Path Finder?

[andyeb]

I bought my first mac (iBook G4 800MHz) back in October and have been on the look out for nifty shareware utilities ever since. Codetek Virtual Desktop and Launch Bar have been my best finds so far... until now ;).

Yesterday I came across Path Finder in the poll on www.macosxhints.com - saw it there and thought "hmm... whats that?". A few seconds of googling brought me to the Path Finder homepage where I was amazed that I hadn't discovered this utility earlier.

So... how did you find out about Path Finder?

Andy

[knghtbrd]

I went looking for it, really. I hate the finder and the dock as they exist in MacOS X. They're almost right, both of them, but not quite. Path Finder makes half of it work right. Nobody's really done a full dock replacement to go with PF though. For trying you'd probably lose iconize and expose, so nobody is really considering it either. Too bad. ;)

[andyblac]

Nobody's really done a full dock replacement to go with PF though.

have you tried an app called WorkStrip by company called SoftChaos.

[knghtbrd]

I have tried it, but it's not a replacement for the dock. You're expected simply to hide the Apple dock and use this in addition. Not quite what I had in mind. :)

[Anonymous]

Saw Leo demo it on "Screen Savers" today. This is what I have been looking for. Now I have an incentive to go to 10.3....might wait for 10.3.4 though. :idea:

[alucard]

Saw someone speak of Path Finder on the MacFixit forums. Checked out the demo and really liked. I won't buy any software these days without a demo. I've gotten burned too many times.

[Ilgaz]

Funny, I didn't know about pathfinder until Cocoa Gestures suggested using it if I want gestures.

Using mac only since 2004, started with G5 and more interestingly, I am a huge shareware/utility fan. Real huge :) I mean I can't count the stuff I tried and feeling a bit shamed about the amount of shareware I bought

[johngalt]

Was thoroughly unimpressed with Tiger Spotlight. Needed something that would restore my olf Panther Finder find queries. This fit the bill. I have since totally disabled Stoplight and and using this product for all kinds of things. Finder is disabled also of course.

[jimlongo]

So... how did you find out about Path Finder?


John Siracusa's tiger review at arstechnica

[amplidood]

I too am disgusted with Spotlight (and Widgets for that matter). I was looking for a way of browsing my audio library without using iTunes. I also wanted to play loops and such without double clicking or being inside another app. I always scour VersionTracker for cool stuff, so I typed in Finder and started digging. And there PathFinder was. Man, what a great find. I tell everyone I know about it. Makes the Tiger Finder look soooo pathetic.

[steve]

I too am disgusted with Spotlight (and Widgets for that matter). I was looking for a way of browsing my audio library without using iTunes.

Quicksilver is just amazingly good at doing this. You can browse by artist, genre, album, whatever, in a few keystrokes without having to launch a program.

I have to say it's Neilio who tipped me off to Quicksilver as a launcher but it's much more than that.

Steve

[Abhi Beckert]

I've known about path finder since *way* back, I probably read about it on ResExcellence, or some other news website that announces updated apps.

Over a few years I occasionally used PF in demo mode for a few days then went back to Finder, until I started doing full-time web development and started hitting Finder's limitations every day, I downloaded PF again to see if it'd solve my woe's and bought it the next day.

I still use Apple's Finder a fair bit, but when PF 4 comes out I'll move completely over to PF.

[grotsasha]

John Siracusa's Tiger review at Arstechnica

Me too :)

[Darkshadow]

Heh, I found out about Path Finder from Steve posting about the availability of the CocoaTech frameworks on the Cocoa-Dev mailing list.

[davebarnes]

An article by Bob Levitus.

I love Path Finder.

[boli]

How: I don't remember exactly. Have probably seen in on versiontracker or the like...

When: Some time back when it was called SNAX rather than Path Finder. ;)

SNAX didn't totally convince me at first, I didn't use it again until November 2002. The name had changed to Path Finder in the mean time, and I liked it and bought it in December 2002

Cheers, Oliver

[christefano]

It was either John Gruber at Daring Fireball or John Siracusa at Ars Technica. I just tell people that "John told me" about Path Finder.

[nevrozel]

I think I heard about it at Macworld. That was summer 2006. I tried it for a week or so and made the "switch". :)
I really like it, even though I don't use a lot of its more geeky features.

[cgossett]

I was transferring files at a local media company on some guys mac and ended up using Path Finder to do it. We just thought this guy owned a "Path Finder" and had hacked Finder to display "Path Finder" in the upper right.

I had been yearning for a script to add a "New Text File" option to my Right-Click so I could add text file notes as I navigated through folder structures. "I hate being 6 levels into a file structure and noticing I should make a note, only to then have to drill down from my TE to save a new file." So, I noticed this guy had a "New Text File" option on his Right-Click. "This was what I was looking for".

Some time later I ran into PF, and made the connection with that computer I had used. I DL'ed it for the "New Text File" feature, and have been integrating it deeper into my work-flow ever since.

I use it for everything now and have been getting deeper into command line code due to the simple accessibility of a terminal window. One of the best surprises was the active preview on HTML and FLV files :o. FLV's were always such a pain to preview.

If only it PF FTP'ed Hmmmm...