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Quick Look Suspicious Packages

by Mat Lu (Jan 30th, 2008)

As I've noted before, I'm a huge fan of Quick Look and I eagerly follow the third-party plugins released by developers. A new one came along recently that's worth a look, especially for the security-conscious out there. Suspicious Package will let you use Quick Look to examine the contents of ...

10 ways to get the most out of Quick Look

by Dave Caolo (Jan 5th, 2008)

When Steve first demonstrated Quick Look, I though it looked gimmicky. Interesting, for sure, but nothing I'd use regularly. Much like Star Wars Episode I: Fun when viewed for the first time, but I'll never watch it again. Three months later, Quick Look is my favorite feature of Leopard. It's ...

Pogue: Visual Voicemail 'feature of the year'

by Scott McNulty (Dec 28th, 2007)

There is no doubt that the iPhone is innovative (heck, even ComputerWorld thinks so), and there is also no doubt that David Pogue, New York Times tech columnist, is a big fan of Apple's products. It should come as a surprise to no one, then, that Pogue has included the iPhone on his list of the most ...

Pixelmator 1.1 adds new filters, tablet support and more

by Mat Lu (Dec 5th, 2007)

The well-known alternative image editor Pixelmator has gotten an update to version 1.1 bringing some eagerly awaited features. Besides better Leopard compatibility, the "Kitten" release adds support for pressure-sensitive graphics tablets, "over 100 New Filters," and third-party filter support by ...

Quick Look Folder and Zip plugins

by Mat Lu (Nov 27th, 2007)

Quick Look is a beautiful thing, and in my view practically itself worth the cost of admission to Leopard. Unfortunately, the more you get used to it, the more annoying it is when you get to a file format that Quick Look doesn't support. Fortunately, Apple was smart enough to design Quick Look with ...

Mac 101: Using Quick Look

by Mat Lu (Nov 14th, 2007)

So far as I can tell, practically everybody loves Leopard's Quick Look previewer. For today's Mac 101 I thought I'd share a few tips about using Quick Look. First is nice little tip from Mac OS X Hints about zooming in Quick Look. If you invoke Quick Look with the spacebar you can actually zoom ...

Quick Look Automator workflows

by Dave Caolo (Nov 2nd, 2007)

We've fallen in love with the convenience of Quick Look here at TUAW. With the click of the spacebar, you can preview documents right in the Finder. It's very useful. Now, look what happens when you apply Quick Look to an Automator workflow: You're presented with the entire workflow, step by step. ...

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