Thursday, April 12, 200l

PUBLICSPACE.NET has just announced version 3.8 of its "A Better Finder Rename" Macintosh Finder enhancement. This release introduces Apple Event awareness which makes it possible to directly drop files onto the application. This also results in a smaller download file. A number of internal changes have also been made to ease the forth-coming migration to MacOS X.

"A Better Finder Rename" is a contextual menu plugin for the Macintosh Finder which allows users to quickly rename multiple files. "A Better Finder Rename" is ideally suited for Macintosh webmasters, users who need to transfer files from or to Windows or Unix, as well as for all other Macintosh users who deal with large numbers of files.

All PUBLICSPACE.NET software is available free of charge to webmasters of Macintosh or ergonomics-related websites. A Better Finder Rename is available both as part of the A Better Finder tool series for US$44.95 or separately for US$14.95.

Feature list:

• interactive/ automatic modes
• process subfolders
• process files and folders separately
• numbered and alphabetcial list creation (e.g. image1, image2, etc.
• replace anywhere in the file name
• replace at the beginning of the file name
• replace at the end of the file name
• add at the beginning of the file name
• add at the end of the file name * convert to uppercase
• convert to lowercase * convert to Proper Case
• reformat number (e.g. File1 -> File001)
• manipulate numbers in filenames (add, substract, etc.)
• remove characters at the beginning of the file name
• remove file extensions
• manual batch rename
• examples for each mode
• fully integrated with the Macintosh Finder
• supports drag & drop renaming
• supports droplet creation & editing for automating frequent tasks

The new version can be downloaded from:

http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/