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Leopard Love: QuickLook Apps

by Erica Sadun Mar 31st 2008 at 12:00PM

Last night, Mike Rose pointed me to this great Leopard tip that allows you to turn your Application folder into a full-screen app viewer. Here's what you do. Navigate to /Applications and select the entire folder (Edit > Select All or Command-A). Next, tap the space bar, click the full-screen arrows and click the Index Sheet button. Bingo: instant full-screen viewer goodness.

Update: My bad. It won't launch the apps -- just displays their icons quicklook-ishly. Still cool.

Thanks Sebastiaan!

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Hervé “.

to get the same behavior with actually clickable icons (launch the app in one click), you can use the free application Todos, http://dbachrach.com/opensoft/index.php?page=Todos
"Todos" means "all of them" in spanish -greetings to the developer :-)

April 01 2008 at 7:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Greg F

Actually, you can launch the apps:
after you click the index sheet button, select the app you want. When it displays only that app, double click the icon. :)

March 31 2008 at 7:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Greg F

Oh whoops, didn't see the comment above me >

March 31 2008 at 7:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MICHAEL

It does launch the apps. After clicking the icon, double click the enlarged application.

March 31 2008 at 5:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Galley

There's always Overflow launcher for full-screen clickable icon goodness.
http://stuntsoftware.com/Overflow/

March 31 2008 at 3:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Blaktornado

Hmmm... Gotta be careful with this.

I just tried it, but accidentally pressed enter afterwards and my iMac tried opening EVERY APPLICATION ON MY COMPUTER. Either it had a Kernal panic (I left it for a minute to go and get something to eat - this was going to take a while) or it got round to half-opening front row. Either way, I had to do a restart by holding the power button. Not good.

Good fun but a potential danger for human error.

March 31 2008 at 2:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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imack

haha, i did the exact same thing. My iMac survived nicely though. It was interesting seeing a wall-to-wall dock bouncing madness.

March 31 2008 at 4:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shane Lloyd

Or. Navigate to the Applications folder.... and select an application to launch.

This is like 4 extra steps to get icons that are slightly larger... and you can't even launch the App. Just increase the icon size in the Applications folder if you want that.

Very useless.


March 31 2008 at 1:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
krye

OK, and this is good for what? Slow news day, huh?

March 31 2008 at 1:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tristan Currier

Many of you need to calm down.

March 31 2008 at 1:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Maikel

Agreed!

March 31 2008 at 2:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Maikel

So the only reason to use this now, is to "Shift-index" in fullscreen...

March 31 2008 at 1:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chad

Anything for a couple bucks, eh Erica? What a terrible article. It's unfortunate that this is becoming a regular occurrence.

March 31 2008 at 1:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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