You may ask, “why should I use it?” Because NC provides the familiar Mac swiftness and is specially designed for power users, including software developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals. Take a look at what the new version of NC offers to you:

• Nearly instantaneous launch, small memory footprint, and blazing-fast operation.

• Ability to connect to remote FTP, SFTP and WebDAV servers, Dropbox service, including remote files editing.

• Powerful batch renaming.

• Support for external tools.

• Browsing archives (zip, tar, bz2, gz, pax, cpio, lha, ar, cab, mtree, iso, warc, jar, 7z, rar) like folders.

• Classic tabbed dual-pane interface with different presentation modes: the traditional UI and the monospaced, text-based UI.

• Configurable keyboard shortcuts.

• Background operations processing.

• Font and color customization.

• Different file panel viewing modes: short, medium, full, and wide.

• Instant files searching and filtering as you type.

• File editing in editors of your choice, based on file extensions.

• Built-in file attributes editor and file viewer with textual/hexadecimal presentation.

• File search by name, size, or content, showing results as a file panel.

• Archives creation.

• Extended attributes modification.

• Lightweight search with Spotlight.

• QuickLook support.

• System and volumes information, showing the processes list as a folder.

• Checksum calculation.

• Full keyboard access with the fastest way to handle file management tasks.