CDFinder developer Norbert M. Doerner holds speech at photokina 2010

18 August 2010 Placed in: Info

If you are interested in goetagging, and you ask yourself if that is simply placing photos on a map, you may wish to hear the speech of CDFinder devleoper Doerner at the biannual photokina expo in Cologne, Germany.

This free speech is hosted by the high tech forum SPECTARIS, and will take place on September 22, 2010, at 1:30 P.M.

Together with Sebastian Hofer from http://www.gps-camera.eu you will be able to have a first look at the exciting new GPS features of CDFinder 6!

Flyer (PDF, German, 156 KB)

We would love to meet you at photokina 2010!

CDFinder 5.7.1 with iPhone GPS support and more!

26 Juli 2010 Placed in: Release

The new CDFinder 5.7.1 now catalogs geotags in iPhone moves, and imports native DiskLibrary databases!

CDFinder 5.7.1 has these new features and fixes:

CDFinder can catalog the GPS tags in .MOV video files created by the Apple iPhone! That gives you the same geotag related features as with photos, such as starting a geosearch, or showing the point in Google Earth or on the built-in map
CDFinder has a new Importer for native Disk Library databases! CDFinder will gather thumbnails, and the metadata out of these catalogs. We also offer a very affordable cross-grade for all users who want to switch from Disk Library to CDFinder
CDFinder can now search for photos with no GPS tags
After updating a cataloged folder, CDFinder now stores the new folder size properly in the catalog
New Cover Print template "Envelope", thanks to William Haney!
Improved Spotlight search for "any text" to include file contents

Everything that is new in CDFinder 5.7.1 is listed here.

CDFinder 5.7.1 (11 MB, for Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6, PowerPC and Intel Macintosh)

This is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users.
For users of CDFinder 4.x and earlier, we offer the update for a small update fee.

Still use Expression Media or iView? Switch to CDFinder now!

08 Juni 2010 Placed in: Info

Did you already hear it?
After four rather unsuccessful years with Microsoft, the software Expression Media (previous iView) was sold again!

Now is your chance to switch from the unloved child to CDFinder!!

special_offer

Switch to CDFinder for only 19.90 €! That saves you 10 €!

Purchase possible with PayPal. They accept credit cards, no registration needed.
Requires a valid iView, iView Media Pro, or Microsoft Expression Media license or proof of purchase.

CDFinder on Facebook

18 Mai 2010 Placed in: News

See Development Happen!

Now you can follow the CDFinder development team on Facebook and Twitter!

On Twitter, you will find fresh and up-to-date comments about Apple development and related stuff, even some personal remarks of the chief CDFinder developer, Norbert M. Doerner.

On Facebook, find longer, and more in-depth stuff regarding CDFinder and related topics.

Of course, we appreciate your feedback in both social networks!

CDFinder on Twitter:

CDFinder on Facebook:

CDFinder 5.7 - Better Cataloging and Geotagging

01 Februar 2010 Placed in: Release

The new CDFinder 5.7 now catalogs better than ever, and has built-in geotagging!

Watch a video covering all the cool new features.

CDFinder 5.7 has these new features:

Cataloging Thumbnails of Adobe InDesign, Microsoft PowerPoint, Quark XPress, Apple Keynote and Pages files
Cataloging FLAC song files (Free Lossless Audio Codec) and ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) song files, including all metadata, lyrics, and even cover art
Cataloging of movie files is much more robust, adds ".3gp", and creates better thumbnails in many cases
Thumbnails of Adobe Illustrator files are created even if the file is not "PDF compatible"
Cataloging previews of text files! The first 256 characters of Microsoft Word documents(.doc and .docx), RTF (Rich Text Format), TXT, “.textClipping”, and NFO files are read, saved, displayed, and of course searched
Geotagging directly with CDFinder! Use either the current position of Google Earth, or the location in CDFinders own GeoFinder, and write that GPS coordinate into your photos
A new Automator action allows you to catalog or update and disk or folder automatically, or even time scheduled with the iCal calendar!
New Japanese translation by Dr. Wilhelm. Domo Arigato!
Export photos directly within CDFinder! Select a couple of photos in CDFinder, use the "Export Photos to..." context menu, choose the format and size, done
Updating of very large catalogs (with more than 1 million files) is more than twice as fast, and more so on slow machines
QuickLook for any online files will now work in Snow Leopard (10.6) as well as in Leopard (10.5). Just hit the space bar for any selected item in a CDFinder catalog. If the original item is online, CDFinder will open the QuickLook window for you

Everything that is new in CDFinder 5.7 is listed here.

This is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users.

CDFinder and Green IT

02 Dezember 2009 Placed in: Info

Green IT and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

Next week, politicians from all over the world meet together to talk. And talk. And talk. And talk even more.

The CDFinder team is sick of talking, and started taking action.

Here is what we did so far:

- We switched our electric utility from a huge, coal burning supplier to a small and completely green one, only using solar, wind, and other efficient, and renewable energies. http://www.ews-schoenau.de/

Read more about this...

MP3-Info 2.0 released!

07 Oktober 2009 Placed in: Release

New version 2.0 of the MP3-Info runs in Snow Leopard

MP3-Info is a free iTunes and Finder companion designed for Mac OS X (version 10.5 or 10.6, PowerPC- & Intel-Mac)

It displays information about audio files, such as their duration, the bitrate, and also some important MP3-Tags, such as the artist, the title of the song, lyrics, cover art, and some more, all directly with the Finder or iTunes! That can save you a lot of time when have to manage songs often. It also shows these information for AAC files created by iTunes, and WAV, and AIFF files.

And best of all: It is free!

So download and enjoy this amazing tool today!

What is new in MP3-Info 2.0?

MP3-Info is now an application, because Apple has killed the Context Menu Modules in Snow Leopard, most unfortunately!
MP3-Info now follows either your Finder selection, or the current iTunes song, or the iTunes selection. This makes MP3-Info an amazing iTunes companion!
Lyrics are being displayed in a separate and optional window. That way you can finally see the lyrics of the current song in iTunes while it is playing, without messing with the iTunes controls!
Cover Art is being displayed, if it is contained in the actual song file
Integration into Twitter.com allows you to tell the world what song you are currently listening to (uses a web browser)
Three different tag editing apps can be connected: ID3X, The Tagger, and Media Rage
Find similar songs in your CDFinder library with one easy click

More info about MP3-Info here

GPS-Info 2.0 Now Available!

09 September 2009 Placed in: Release

Apple kills CMMs, GPS-Info returns!

The recently released Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) adds cool new stuff, but not for the first time, Apple has also killed features. This time, the Contextual Menu Modules (CMM) were axed. So no really flexible context menus in the shiny new Cocoa Finder of Snow Leopard. Sigh. That was also the death of GPS-Info CMM.

But we didn't give up!

If GPS-Info can't run as a CMM in Snow Leopard, it will now be a compact and superfast utility application. And offer even better integration and features.

GPS-Info 2.0 screenshot

So download and enjoy GPS-Info 2.0!

More info about GPS-Info here

CDFinder runs fine in Snow Leopard

28 August 2009 Placed in: News

CDFinder 5.6.1 of course runs fine in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)!

Now that Apple has release the new version of its operating system, we can tell you that CDFinder 5.6.1 runs fine in Snow Leopard!

There are tow small issues, though:
1. Since the QuickLook API has been changed in Snow Leopard, CDFinder 5.6.1 cannot display the QuickLook window for files currently online. We are working on a fix for that.
2. Since Apple has removed the contextual menu modules from Snow Leopard, the "CDFinder CMM" won't work in the new Finder. The CDFinder team was very disappointed by this loss of features in Snow Leopard, and we are working to find a solution. If you also think this is a problem, please make sure to tell Apple about this!

The very good news is that Apple has improved stability of the CoreImage framework that CDFinder uses to get photo metadata and thumbnails in Snow Leopard, so this will improve overall stability of CDFinder as well.

CDFinder 5.6.1 catalogs Elgato EyeTV recordings and more!

22 Juli 2009 Placed in: Release

The new CDFinder 5.6.1 now catalogs EyeTV recordings, and has a beautiful street level map for the GPS search!

Watch a video covering the cool new features:

We are very excited about this new version. Not only does it fix some annoying bugs, CDFinder 5.6.1 also offers two really hot new features:

CDFinder now catalogs Elgato EyeTV recordings (.eyetv). CDFinder will show the thumbnail for the recording, and also important metadata as well, such as the EPG description, director, actors, and much more. All that is cataloged, displayed, and can of course be searched as well
The GeoFinder inside CDFinder now uses the street-level OpenStreetMap for the GPS search (requires 10.5 or newer)! That is much nicer than the built-in map, but since it requires Internet access, the old map is still available. Many thanks to Dirk Stichling!
New CoverPrint templates: one for US-Letter format Avery 5692 labels, and one more for the HP Photosmart Direct Print. Thanks a lot to Deneen Winchester-Ristow and David Robinson for their incredible help on this!
Double clicking a found item coming from iPhoto will now show this item in iPhoto. There is also a contextual menu command for this, too. You can get iPhoto results by using the GeoFinder, and asking it to search the iPhoto 8 database, too

All new features are listed here.

And best of all, it is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users, so go ahead and download it now!

CDFinder demo at Macintosh Asheville Computer Society Meeting

08 Juni 2009 Placed in: News

We are very pleased to announce that CDFinder will be demoed during the upcoming June meeting of the Macintosh Asheville Computer Society M.A.C.S. So if you are nearby, make sure to attend this meeting!!

Additionally, the wonderful people at M.A.C.S. have updated their previous review of CDFinder to cover the latest version 5.6. Read the entire review. CDFinder gets the full 5-Clicks rating: "CDFinder is a well-written, self-contained program which does its job very well." The entire CDFinder team is really proud to hear that, and we appreciate this very much!!!

MP3-Info CMM 1.5 Released!

02 Juni 2009 Placed in: Release

With help from the CDFinder code, we have released version 1.5 of the new MP3-Info CMM

MP3-Info CMM is a free Contextual Menu Module designed for Mac OS X
(version 10.3 or newer, PowerPC- & Intel-Mac). It is essentially an extension to the Finder.

It displays information about audio files, such as their duration, the bitrate, and also some important MP3-Tags, such as the artist, the title of the song, lyrics, cover art, and some more, all directly inside the Finder, without the need to open any application to get this information! That can save you a lot of time when have to manage songs often. It also shows these information for AAC files created by iTunes, and WAV, and AIFF files.

And best of all: It is free!!

So download and enjoy this new tool!

What is new in MP3-Info CMM 1.5?

Complete Unicode support: All metadata can now contain any Unicode character and will still be displayed properly
CDFinder integration: You can search for song titles, albums and artist name
Support for iPhone ringtone files (suffix ".m4r")
The menu now shows if a song contains cover art and lyrics, and copies the lyrics into the clipboard, if that menu item is selected
ID3 tags in AIFF files are supported now, too
Now launches "TheTagger" as a tag editor
New rename option: "Songtitle.mp3"
Properly displays ID3v4 tag versions as well

More info here

CDFinder 5.6 Now Catalogs Video Files!

05 Mai 2009 Placed in: Release

We are happy to declare the new CDFinder 5.6 released!

This update contains a lot of new features, including:

Catalog thumbnails of video files - and not simply the first frame, but a frame from about 20% of the duration of the movie
Expanded geotagging support, including the ability to search the iPhoto 8 database from within the GeoFinder window of CDFinder, and a blazing fast parallel upload of multiple photos to the Locr.com geophoto community
Cataloging has become more robust, and now includes the contents of ISO disk images, thumbnails of graphic files without proper name suffix, contents of RAR archive files larger than 4 GB, and now also the cover art of AAC files, and podcast textual information

All new features are listed here.

And best of all, it is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users, so go ahead and download it now!

CDFinder and Video Archiving

08 April 2009 Placed in: Info

The popular video production blog SuiteTake.com has just published a long article about archiving large amounts of video data created in any video production.
(NAB Preivew: Cache-A LTO-4 Archive Drive for Video Pros)

They are suggesting to use CDFinder:
"As each tape is filled, we mount it on the desktop of the computer and use a program called CDFinder to create a catalog file of all contents of the tape. This usually only takes a few minutes per tape. Once complete, the tape is in the CDFinder database and can be searched from any computer in the office without the tape being loaded. Once we find what we’re looking for, we load the appropriate tape and retrieve the files. It has turned out to be a great system."

We are very happy about this interesting article that shows how CDFinder can be used in video production, and we are even more thrilled, because generating video thumbnails for CDFinder catalogs is a very cool new upcoming feature, and it seems we have hit a nerve with hat already...

Locr for Aperture 1.0 released

16 März 2009 Placed in: News

After the highly successful Locr for iPhoto plug-in, the CDFinder development team did it again: A plug-in for Apples Aperture to upload your photos directly to the Locr community. This tool sends along geotags, keywords, and descriptions, and can place the new photos in an album on Locr as well.

Find out more about this cool new plug-in here.

Locr for iPhoto 1.0 released

09 März 2009 Placed in: News

The new coup of the CDFinder development team: A plug-in for iPhoto to upload your photos directly to the Locr community. This tool even sends along geotags, keywords, and descriptions, and it is even able to get the Place you may have set in iPhoto 8!

Find out more about this cool new plug-in here.

CDFinder 5.5 available for Download!

05 Januar 2009 Placed in: Release

The CDFinder team is proud to present you the new CDFinder 5.5.

A massive update with lots of new features, including:

Support for movie files
Much faster cataloging
GeoFinder to search for photos near a place, and KMZ Export
XMP Support for Integration with Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, and all other Adobe products
Many more cool new features and fixes

A complete list of all new features and fixes can be found here.

And best of all, it is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users, so go ahead and download it now!

MacTech Geotagging article

16 Dezember 2008 Placed in: News

MacTech Magazine January 2009 Title image

The current issue January 2009 of the popular MacTech magazine contains a large article about GPS, geotagging, and the Macintosh.

Written by CDFinder developer Norbert M. Doerner, the article covers the addition of GPS data to digital photos, all the software and hardware needed, and how that additional information can be used by CDFinder to finally organize your ever increasing photo collection.

If you are further interested in this topic, the CDFinder web site already contains additional useful information (here).

CDFinder in Arizona

17 Oktober 2008 Placed in: News

Norbert M. Doerner showed CDFinder features to Mac User Groups in Arizona

On Wednesday, November 19, 2008, CDFinder chief developer Norbert M. Doerner has presented the current version of CDFinder, as well as an exclusive preview of CDFinder 5.5 to the members and visitors of the Tucson Macintosh User Group (TMUG) in Tucson, Arizona. http://tmug.com

The next day, November 20, 2008, Doerner also gave a speech to the Arizona Macintosh User Group (AMUG) in Phoenix, Arizona. http://www.amug.org

It has been a great pleasure to hold these presentations! Both sessions were received very warmly by the audience, and a lot of interesting questions came up and were answered swiftly.

(If you are also running a Macintosh User Group, we can arrange a presentation at your group as well, or provide licenses for your raffles. Please contact us.)

Inside Mac Radio Interview!

05 September 2008 Placed in: News

The highly regarded popular internet radio station Inside Mac Radio has just released an interview with CDFinder chief developer Norbert M. Doerner.

Inside Mac Radio host Scott Sheppard talks with Doerner about the cool GeoFinder feature in CDFinder, which allows photographers to use GPS coordinates embedded in photos to quickly search for images taken at a specific point. The interview goes on about how CDFinder can help anyone to keep their precious data structured and organized, and how the popular cataloger tool can quickly find any data on any disk you have.

Here is the full interview as free podcast in the iTunes store.

The entire CDFinder team is very proud about this exciting interview!

CDFinder at "mac at camp"

15 August 2008 Placed in: News

At the largest Mac user gathering in Europe, mac at camp, CDFinder chief developer Norbert M. Doerner held two workshops about "GPS and the Mac".

Since CDFinder, as well as the free GPS-Info CMM, both deal well with GPS embedded photos, that workshop was a great place to learn more about how the GPS features in general are currently supported by applications on the Mac platform.

The feedback of all participants was very positive, they were surprised how easy you can find digital photos in CDFinder based on the location the photo was taken.

CDFinder Transporter (iView) released!

31 Juli 2008 Placed in: Release

We are proud to announce that CDFinder Transporter (iView) 1.0 is shipping!

This newest additon to the CDFinder tool chain converts your iView MediaPro and Microsoft Expression Media (both 1.x and 2.x) XML export files into valuable CDFinder catalogs.

This gives all disappointed iView users a new option to keep their precious data intact.

Find out more about CDFinder Transporter (iView) here.

GPS-Info CMM 1.1 released

07 Juli 2008 Placed in: Release

The free GPS-Info CMM today just got better with the release of version 1.1!

New in GPS-Info CMM 1.1:

The IPTC fields city, state, and country are being displayed, if they are contained in the photo
The Reveal in Google Earth command now “flies” Google Earth to the GPS coordinate, and also uses the tilt, azimuth, and distance embedded in the photo for the display
The GPS coordinate can now also be exported into a KML file
Added SmugMug and WikiMapia to the list
Google Maps now sets a marker with the name of the photo on the exact GPS location
Fixed some memory leaks

GPS-Info CMM is a free Contextual Menu Module designed for Mac OS X (version 10.4 or newer, PowerPC- & Intel-Mac). It is essentially an extension to the Finder.

It displays the GPS coordinates of a photo file, and allows you to view that location in Google Earth, Flickr, Panoramio, Google Maps, or MapQuest.

It supports a wide range of photo files, such as JPG, TIFF, PSD, and of course RAW.

And best of all: It is free!!

So download and enjoy this cool tool!

More info here.

GPS-Info CMM 1.0 released

27 Mai 2008 Placed in: Release

With a lot of help from the CDFinder code, we have released today version 1.0 of the new free GPS-Info CMM.

GPS-Info CMM is a free Contextual Menu Module designed for Mac OS X (version 10.4 or newer, PowerPC- & Intel-Mac). That is essentially an extension to the Finder.

It displays the GPS coordinates of a photo file, and allows you to view that location in Google Earth, Flickr, Panoramio, Google Maps, or MapQuest.

It supports a wide range of photo files, such as JPG, TIFF, PSD, and of course RAW.

And best of all: It is free!!

So download and enjoy this new tool!

More info here.

CDFinder Mac 5.1.1 available for Download!

16 April 2008 Placed in: Release

This exciting new update adds many new features and fixes:

QuickLook Integration in Leopard: Select any file in CDFinder and hit the Space key to get a full preview of the document, song, movie, or photo (if the original file is online)! That even works for multiple selected files!
CDFinder can now catalog all metadata of AIFF songs, including Cover Art, Lyrics and all other typical fields
CDFinder can now catalog the IPTC and GPS metadata of RAW and PSD photos
MP3 Cover Art is now being read from ID3v2.2 format tags as well as the ID3v2.3 tags
CDFinder is now able to export the GPS coordinates of all selected photos (along with their names and IPTC caption) into a KML file (to be used with Google Earth and other applications)
The GPS distance search window now displays the selected coordinate in a nice world map

More details can be found here

Podcast MacBreak Weekly talks about CDFinder

16 April 2008 Placed in: Review

They just keep coming! Yet another very positive review of CDFinder. This time, it is a podcast of MacBreak Weekly.

Alex Lindsay days: (at about minute 49 in the podcast, more info)

"We have 120 drives or something here... for backups and stuff. We run it through DiskTracker, which is kind of stone-age technology, to keep track of it.... CDFinder just builds a database of every file name that is on that drive, and if you are doing lots and lots of backups, you just scan these drives, and now you can just very quickly find what file is on what drive. We are just starting to use CDFinder, and as soon as I did the first scan, of my internal drive, I was like get rid of DiskTracker. CDFinder is light-years ahead of DiskTracker..."

Listen to the whole podcast review

We are thrilled to receive such a great review again! Thank you!!

bioneural.net reviews CDFinder

26 März 2008 Placed in: Review

And yet another cool review of CDFinder came in. This time, it is from the popular bioneural.net blog.

They write:

"CDFinder is essentially an asset manager that catalogues any file on any volume (CD-ROM, DVD, USB drive, etc). But media metadata are its speciality, and this indexing powerhouse has recently been extended to handle geotags and provide related functionality.

"Free updates since 1996" is nothing short of impressive. I reviewed the change log and that's 54 updates since the first English version was released. Not many companies can boast of such dedication to their existing customer base. The application menu even has a "Send e-mail to author..." option, again indicating a hands-on commitment to customer support (which is free). That kind of approach wins you loyalty."

Read entire review

The feedback from this review is very welcome to the entire team here, and we very much appreciate it!

Mac Recon also reviews CDFinder

10 März 2008 Placed in: Review

The popular blog Mac Recon has written a really amazing review of CDFinder 5.1.

They write:

"CDFinder has a very clean, yet attractive, interface that works out perfectly and actually boosts its productivity. Some may even look at it as a streamlined Finder window because of how easy it is to gain access to any file within it.
...
But all the cataloguing would be useless if it didn’t have equally powerful organizing and searching features. Fortunately, it does.
...
CDFinder is extremely powerful. It’s capable of handling millions of files (hard to test in a computer lab environment, though), and everything seems perfect."

Read entire review

Again, the CDFinder team is really happy to receive such positive praise! Thank you!

Ogle Earth reviews CDFinder

07 März 2008 Placed in: Review

The popular blog Ogle Earth has written a very positive review of the new GPS features in CDFinder.

They write:

"So what happens when the developer, Germany’s Norbert Doerner, gets bitten by the geotagging bug? Why, he turns CDFinder into a geosearch marvel.
You just know this stuff is eventually going to make it into operating systems by default, it’s just that it will take ages."

Read entire review

The entire CDFinder team is thrilled to be valued so much by such a prestigious blog. Thank you!!

digitalkamera.de reviews CDFinder and CDWinder

28 Februar 2008 Placed in: Review

The popular German digital camera web site digitalkamera.de has written a very long and detailed review of CDFinder and CDWinder.

They write:

"CDWinder is a disk cataloging application with a very comfortable and intuitive handling. It has a very fast search feature and many well-thought-of features."

Read entire review (in German...)

We are very happy bout this extensive and positive review!

CDFinder Mac 5.1 available for Download!

25 Februar 2008 Placed in: Release

This massive new update adds a lot of amazing new features:

Updating existing catalogs in CDFinder is about 20 times faster than before, because CDFinder now keeps unmodified metadata around (QuickUpdate)
New extended Find context menus: Find files with same MP3 artist, album, title, or composer, or based on IPTC meta-data or date values
Vastly extended GPS geotag support: CDFinder can now also show the location of a photo in Flickr, Panoramio, Google Maps and MapQuest. More can be added at any time...
Find photos depending on their GPS geotagging location and distance relative to another photo
Cataloging ZIP archive contents is about 20 times faster than before, due to an improved algorithm
Cataloging of MP3 and AAC meta data is now fully Unicode compatible, and supports Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, and other characters
Cover Art in MP3 and AAC audio files is now cataloged as a nice thumbnail
Creation of photo thumbnails is about twice as fast as before
CDFinder now optionally generates a FileCheck value for every file, and allows you to verify that at any time. Important for photographers and everyone else who want to ensure that their data is still alive and unchanged
CDFinder can now import Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC for Windows) XML files as catalogs
AutoMount: CDFinder automatically mounts server volumes for you if you access the content of the catalog

...and more!

More details can be found here

Germany's Macwelt magazine says CDFinder is "very good"!

01 November 2007 Placed in: Review

In its recent issue December 2007, Germany's largest Macintosh magazine, Macwelt, has tested CDFinder 5 and found it to be very good!

The testers especially liked the low price and the very good user interface:
"CDFinder is the magnifying glass for files. It simply works without any trouble, and after a short while you won't ever want to do without it." (Macwelt issue December 2007, page 46)

The CDFinder team is very proud about this prominent praise!

CDFinder Mac 5.0 available!

22 Mai 2007 Placed in: Release

This new version a lot of new features, such as:
• Previews of photo files (JPG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, PSD, PNG, GIF, BMP, and several RAW formats) can be created during cataloging
• Full Unicode support
• Improved user interface
• Direct Integration with Roxio Toast Titanium 8
• Improved integration with FileMaker Pro
• Direct integration into applications such as Apple Pages, Apple Keynote, Adobe InDesign, and Quark XPress
• Several new templates for the Cover Print feature
• ...and much more!

More details can be found here

CDFinder reviewed in commandN.tv!

26 Juni 2006 Placed in: Review

In the current episode 51 of the wildly popular video podcast commandN.tv, producer Jeff MacArthur showcases the cool features of CDFinder. Just download this episode for free and look for yourself!

CDFinder reviewed by M.A.C.S.

25 Oktober 2005 Placed in: Review

The Macintosh Asheville Computer Society has written a really nice and detailled review about CDFinder:

Pros: Fairly intuitive and flexible, Mac-like interface; Individual items or entire catalogs can be deleted (without removing the original files from the disk ("DiskTracker", see below, actually deletes the "real" files!); Catalogs can be grouped into one or more folders; Powerful Export function; "Batch Create" for cataloging several CDs, one after the other; When printing, Disclosure Triangles are printed to the left of each folder, which makes them much easier to find in long listings; You can choose whether to catalog "Packages" or not. ("DiskTracker", see below, doesn't allow this.); Convenient separate program included to quick-catalog a disk.

Read entire Review

CDFinder reviewed in ATPM

10 Oktober 2005 Placed in: Review

The cool online magazine "About This Particular Macintosh" has written a really nice and detailled comparison between CDFinder and a simple tool called "Neometric" Catalog:

"CDFinder stores its catalogs more compactly, both on disk and in memory. It is also able to control its memory use (and improve performance) by loading a catalog only when you try to browse or search it. Thus, I can easily search hundreds of large catalogs in CDFinder, any one of which would bring "Neometric" Catalog to its knees."
"I did not encounter any bugs in CDFinder. I’ve been using it for years, and it has never crashed."

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