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Review of PopupFolder

Table of Contents

• Product Specifications
• System Requirements
• Product Description
• What I Liked about the programs.....
• What I didn't like about the programs.....
• Ratings
• Contact information
• Pricing
• Computer system this software was reviewed

Product Specifications

Platform: Macintosh
Media Format: Floppy

System Requirements:

Product Description

PopupFolder is a Finder navigation tool. It provides a hierarchical menu for any folder on your computer or any disk media (Hard Drive, Floppy, etc.) for easy access to all of your documents, folders, or applications. PopupFolder is also accessible in the open and save dialog boxes. To activate the menu, just click and hold on each folder; after a second or so, a menu will come up containing all the items in the folder. While continuing to hold the mouse button down, you can navigate to the other folders in the menu and list the items in that folder. (provided that option is enabled).

 

You configure the product through its control panel. From the control panel you can change the following:

• Finder
  • Enable menus on folders
  • Change the grab key
  • Enable hierarchical window title menu
    • Change the requirement for the Command key to be used
  • Enable allow small icons on desktop
  • Enable show start icon
• Open and Save dialog boxes
  • Enable menus on folder icons
  • Enable hierarchical title menu
  • Add icon bar
  • Enlarge dialogs
  • Show custom icons
  • You can also try your options out from inside the control panel
• Menu bar
  • Hierarchical Apple Menu (Same as Apple Menu Options Submenus)
    • use PopupFolder menu format
  • PopupFolder Menu
    • use PopupFolder menu format
  • Change how menus behave, including the finder menus and the PopupFolder menus
    • Normal - requires that your click and hold to see the menu
    • Click and Drop - click&hold, after menu comes up release the mouse button and the menu will stay
    • Auto Drop - Just put your mouse on the menu and it will automatically come up. For the PopupFolder menu to come up on initially, you will have to click & hold for the menu to come up, but every menu after that, just pause the mouse over that menu and it will come up.
• Format
  • Change the fonts used in the menu
  • Change how your alias names look. Change from italic to another style like shadow, outline, bold, etc.
  • Change how your Folder names look. Change from plain to another style like shadow, outline, bold, etc.
  • Show icons next to the menu item
  • Sort the items in the PopupFolder menu by name, label, etc.
  • Enable Pop-up menus close to the cursor
  • Display to to 16 levels
• Shortcuts- assign keyboard shortcuts to frequently used documents, folders, applications

There is one thing that PopupFolder menus do not work on and that is the trash can.

What I Liked about the programs.....

At first I wondered how useful this utility would be, but I quickly became hooked. I instantly found it useful for finding items buried two or three folders deep. I have often disliked the fact that you had to open a folder, only to open the next folder and the next, until you found the item you were looking for. This program solves that problem by quickly giving you access to the nested folders through the menu that pops up. It also was useful for saving items into those nested folders for the same reasons.

One of other things that I really like about this utility was its ability to make the icons on your desktop small. Yes, I'm guilty of being one of those folks who has everything on the desktop. When viewing by small icons I can place more items on the desktop for easier access and organize the items better.

Although the new Mac OS 8 is supposed to have a similar feature in that you can navigate through folders on your hard drive, I believe this tool does a better job of it. If you have many items in the folder and it is in icon view, it may take a little while to find the next folder. With PopupFolder's menu listing you have everything sorted and listed not only by its name, but you get a small view of its icon. To me this alone makes it more useful than the Mac OS 8 feature. Then there are other features to consider that make PopupFolder an easy winner.

I would recommend this utility to anyone who has multi-nested folder and/or any who is already a fan of the Apple Menu subfolders in System 7.5.x.

What I didn't like about the programs.....

At first, the PopupFolder menu item didn't make much sense to me, but after reading the short well written manual, I quickly found uses for it. Other than this minor item there was nothing that I didn't like about this program

 

Rating

(Rated on a scale from 1 Dome to 5 Domes. 5 Domes being excellent and 1 Dome being not worthy)

Value for the Money: (4)
Usability: (4)
Installation Ease (4)
Manual (4)

Contact information

ASD Software, Inc.

4650 Arrow Highway, Suite E-6
Montclair, CA 91763

Tel: (909) 624-2594
Fax: (909) 624-9574

Product Information sales@asdsoft.com

Web Page http://www.asdsoft.com/

Pricing

Suggested retail pricing is $49.95

Computer system this software was reviewed.

These programs were review on a Performa 6290 (with 14" color monitor) with 24mb of RAM and a 1.2 Gig hard drive running System software 7.6.1 and using the At Ease interface.