QuickErase 1.5

It's the little freeware tools that I love best about Mac OS X. Part of my job is to make the labs at my school as easy-to-use as possible so I'm always looking for free software tools I can install in our lab images to assist our students in using our Mac workstations. I've flagged Disk Utility as an "admin" app and so they are not allowed to launch the program, which means they have no easy built-in way to erase a CD-RW. The solution wasn't to allow them to use Disk Utility but a great little freeware utility called QuickErase 1.5.

QuickErase 1.5 allows users to erase a CD-RW from the Finder without using Disk Utility. The difference between QuickErase and other freeware disk burning/erasing programs is how simple it is. It puts an icon in every Finder window that a user can click on to erase a CD-RW.

No rooting around in the Utilities or Applications folder. There's virtually no learning curve. It's something that Apple should have built into Panther's or Tiger's Finder but didn't. There's a version for Panther and a version for Tiger. Give it a try.

Update: Just a heads up, because it's not that clear. All you have to do to enable this as a quickbutton in the Finder window icon bar is drag and drop the application icon to where on the Finder icon bar you want it to live.