Archive for January, 2010
Column View and Preview Doesn’t Show Folder Contents
Jan 9th
Another thing I’ve found that I miss is the ability to view folder contents in the Column view. On the Mac, in Column view, you can click on a folder and see the folder’s contents, including other folders, in the preview column. Clicking once on an item in the preview column will preview that item, or, if another folder, will preview that folder’s contents, and so on. Basically, as long as you have folders within folders, the Finder will continue to create preview columns until you either find the item you’re looking for, or there are no more folders to click on.
In Windows 7, you can only go one folder deep: to see within that folder, you must open another window — there’s no previewing the contents.
I’ve searched for something that will mimic this ability in Windows, but so far my search has come up empty.
Windows Screensaver Failings
Jan 8th
I really miss being able to drag my cursor to the lower-left corner of my screen and having the screensaver start up automatically. For those of you not familiar, on the Mac, you can set up a variety of actions that occur when you move the mouse into a preset corner. I’ve found a number of posts online that show me how to set up an icon on the desktop that I can click to start the screensaver, but it’s not the same — plus I don’t like having icons all over my desktop.
If anyone out there is aware of an app that runs in the background and watches the screen corners, and launches an app or other action when the mouse enters the corner, please let me know.
Update: I found it – Hot Corners Pro, by South Bay Software. It’s shareware, but at $12.99, totally worth it, I think, if it will truly replace the functionality. Too bad it’s not built-in to Windows, though.
Next: Other things about Windows that I miss from my Mac…