Mac 101: Using Quick Look

I've noticed the dissolve transition from Tiger's Slideshow has been lost in Quick Look as the latter just jumps from one image to the next. Bring back dissolves!

If you don't like quicklook functionality, write a new plugin. this stuff is open.

Check out other plugins
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/t_trace/20071124/p3

Heres a good one for finder. Shift+Apple/Command+Y opens the current file into a new Stickie. I've only tested it for .c, .mp3, and .jpg, but for JPG it is visible, or for .mp3 you get a player.

Very cool.. keep up the cool tricks

I like Quicklook itself, but I'd like to be able to restore the space bar's original function - taking you to the first item in a window. I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually, but for now it's distracting and aggravating.

I'm not a fan. In fact, I would disable Quick Look if I could, because:

1) I really do miss the scrubbers and volume controls for audio playback in Finder. I used those daily; now I feel handcuffed.

2) QuickLook greatly slows down access to large directories full of data on servers. It reads the header of each file to create the Quick Look preview. I don't want that on servers.

In short, Quick Look really need an "off" button or a selectivity to exclude volumes you don't need/want it on.

If you like quickview - this adds a missing piece of functionality in my view

http://www.millshalligan.co.uk/software/folderquickview/index.shtml

I'm in the same boat as Jeff Greenstein: having a lot of mp3s makes Quicklook choooooke. Bad. I think 30 seconds of waiting is a conservative estimate.

Anyone have any ideas how to get the 10.4 preview of multimedia files back?

But to add to the hints, have you noticed the left and right arrows below a .pdf in column view? They let you move between pages, but they don't show up until you hover the cursor just below the file's image.

When you view a pdf or Keynote file in QuickView, click on the double arrow to make it full screen, then you can page through the doc with the spacebar. It's like paging through a man page entry in the GUI.

"(or two-finder scrolling on a touchpad)"
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"(or two-finger scrolling on a touchpad)"

I think.

I'm surprised that apple didn't implement QuickLook for webarchives, but I'm sure someone will write one eventually. I'm looking forward to third parties filling out the missing quick look functionality. For my own part, I threw together a quicklook plugin for viewing the contents of zip files. If you want to play with it, it's available, with source at:

http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham/out/ZipLook.dmg

Install the plugin in /Library/QuickLook and run "qlmanage -r" in the terminal to let QuickLook know it's there.

For now it works with .zip and .jar files; someday, when I find time, I'll add tar.gz support.