A Better Airport Menu

All utilities should be this simple and effective.

With the installation of WiFind, a $8 SIMBL plugin from TastyApps, your Mac’s Airport menu instantly becomes easier to use with zero overhead. You simply run the installer and, when you’re done, the computer’s Airport menu works the way it should have from the get-go.

This is such a simple concept that it doesn’t really merit a “review,” but here goes: once you install WiFind, your Airport menu begins to display more information. In addition to the names of all of the networks your Mac can see, the menu displays signal-strength and security status of each. A quick glance at the screenshot will communicate more than my explanation.

In fact, this is such a natural-feeling addition to OS X that it’s bound to be included in a future version… and that’s the only negative thing I can say about it. And, if the only nasty thing I can say about an app is that you might “waste” your money by buying it because Apple will probably add it to the OS, that’s a pretty positive review.

One note: WiFind is a SIMBL plug-in, which means that it hooks into your OS’s files to work. You might be worried by that, since it sounds like it’s somehow changing your system, but you shouldn’t because it doesn’t. According to the FAQ, if you decide you don’t like WiFind, all you have to do to is remove the “WiFind.bundle” from the “/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/” folder and restart. Simple!

WiFind is $8 shareware and you can get your copy from TastyApps.