Handful of Nothing

Well, I was reading the frankstein review in Gizmodo and I was surprised (or not) by people reactions to one comment from the reviewers :

“It’s easier to find stuff on leopard than on Vista”

people were REALLY pissed off, saying that Vista’s search was incredible and that it was not right to say that. I think people lost the point. Is really not about the search but actually about 2 new features: The cover flow and quicklook integrated into finder.

This “small features” actually provide you a “visual” glance based search that no metadata based engine can provide you. I was already happy flickering through my backups looking for things and when a suspect appears I can just press space bar to see if is really what I want.

People appears to : 1) misunderstand the comment, 2) forget about our physical capabilities: We can just flick pretty fast across our files and if something that resembles (in case of pictures, presentations, pdfs) appears when can just slow down and fine tune the search.

Why I think that’s very important? Simple, I believe there’s a lot of people like me out there, that sometimes has lost images (no names, tags, nothing) lost ppts, that you can’t just remember any information to search for. You are just “trying to figure out what you really want” and this ” visual search” not only gives you this but also helps you find things there could be lost. Of course this does not replace a conventional search, but the search result in Leopard gives you this view also only in the results so you can combine a regular search with a glance search.

Killer. Incredible focus on find and browse your stuff. Incredible focus on keeping things organized.

Along with faster, and a bunch of small details that solved a lot of annoying issues, that’s how a define what I like in Leopard.