A complete rewrite is in the works!

The old CDFinder PDF Users Guide is currently being rewritten for NeoFinder.

In the process, we are switching from the static PDF to a more flexible online, web based form.

New chapters are added every day, and you can even follow this process here:

http://www.cdfinder.de/guide/

Enjoy, and send us feedback!

Your NeoFinder Team.

32 Months of hard work

179 Exciting New Features

1 New Name


Introducing NeoFinder

After 16 years, we really had to drop the "CD" in the name of CDFinder, even though we really grew fond of it.

But since everything is new in that cool version 6.0, we went for the new name NeoFinder!

NeoFinder is fully rewritten in Cocoa, has a beautiful new interface, and a LOT to offer.

Some of the new and amazing features include:

• New Icon
• Everything in one window, but you can of course view catalogs, folders, or albums in separate windows for much better workflow as well
• New Column mode, to complete Icon and List mode
• Fully integrated Inspector
• Fully integrated map with GeoFinder
• New Wikipedia Inspector for items with GPS geotags
• Super-fast multi-core Find engine
• Smart Folders
• New powerful Find Editor has more options
• Albums, to keep interesting items together
• Better Browser-like navigation
• Massively improved Audio-CD cataloging: Reads ISRC, MCN, and CD-TEXT from the disk, uses MusicBrainz for track titles
• New Importers for Canto Cumulus and MediaDex CRE files, for WhereIsIt for Windows XML files, DiskCatalogMaker Export files, and Tolis BRU Tape Backup report files
• Importer for iView MediaPro and Expression Media XML files now integrated
• NeoFinder now catalogs, displays, and searches OpenMeta keywords!
• AutoUpdater: Update your catalogs with a time schedule (requires business License)
• Faster cataloging of photos

And a LOT more!

We can offer you this amazing new update for a very low price, and all customers who have purchased their CDFinder after January 1, 2011, will even get this update for free!

NeoFinder is available today! Download the demo or buy a license or an update now.

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:

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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.

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!!!

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.

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.

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).

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.)

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!