Tiger’s new feature: Get Info from Finder’s Sidebar

I used to get frustrated when running Panther and I needed to know how much space had been used or how much was left on the boot hard drive. I would right-click on the drive icon in Finder’s Sidebar but nothing would happen. I had to click on the drive to select it, go to the Finder menu, and select File/Get Info to get the information.

Not anymore.

With Tiger, you can now right-click (“control-click” for those with an Apple Pro mouse) on the drive icon in a Finder window’s Sidebar and you will get a context menu containing “Get Info” along with the other contextual menu items one would expect. It’s a small but great improvement in usability.