NeoFinder is an application for
Apple's
Mac OS X developed by
Norbert M. Doerner since 1995. It was formerly known as CDFinder.
The software is a
digital asset management utility, which offers a wide variety of music, photo, video, and other
meta data, including
thumbnails
Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or videos, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index (publishing), index does for words. In the age of digital images, visual search ...
and XMP (Adobes
Extensible Metadata Platform
The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is an ISO standard, originally created by Adobe Systems Inc., for the creation, processing and interchange of standardized and custom metadata for digital documents and data sets.
XMP standardizes a data ...
), that is being read while
cataloging a disk or data folder, and has many workflow integrations, such as with
Roxio Toast,
FileMaker, or
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge is a free digital asset management app made by Adobe Inc. and first released with Adobe Creative Suite 2. It is a mandatory component of Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe eLearning Suite, Adobe Technical Communication Suite and Adobe Ph ...
.
NeoFinder also supports cataloging of
geotagged photos, a geo search, and can add
GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a Radionavigation-satellite service, satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of t ...
tags to photos.
NeoFinder is available as
demoware, which lets you to catalog 25 disks, but use all other features as long as you want.
There is also a version available for Windows, since 2000, called abeMeda, formerly known as
CDWinder
CDWinder is an application for Microsoft Microsoft Windows, Windows developed by Andreas H. Becherer since 2000. It is now known as abeMeda.
The software is a digital asset management utility, which offers a wide variety of meta data that is bein ...
. abeMeda is developed by Andreas H. Becherer. abeMeda uses the same catalog data format and offering the same functionality as NeoFinder.
References
"Geosavvy search on the Mac: CDFinder 5.1, GeoSpotlight" Ogle Earth Blog, March 5, 2008
" CDWinder/Finder 5.1 als Bilddatenbank" digitalkamera.de, February 2, 2008
"Software Review :: CDFinder 5" mac recon Blog, March 7, 2008
"CDFinder in the Mac geotagging workflow" bioneural.net Blog, March 24, 2008
M.A.C.S. (Macintosh Asheville Computer Society), October 25, 2005
"Disk Catalogers" About This Particular Macintosh, October 2005
MacUser Magazine, June 2000
"CDFinder Product Review" AppleLust.com, August 2004
External links
*{{Official website, www.cdfinder.de
MacOS-only software
Cross-platform software