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Leopard Quicklook Plugins For More File Formats

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[Mac only] Mac OS X Leopard comes with a Quicklook tool. Basically, if you hit ’space-bar’ once, it gives you a quick look at the content (whether it’s a text or image) before you decide to launch it. It’s really something cool and thoughtful, but not great enough. The limitation - not all file formats are supported, and you can’t do quicklook on a folder.

Here’s some hacks/plugins I stumbled across recently, by installing it, you can quicklook into folders, zip files and few other file formats that greatly enrich the experience of file browsing.

Quicklook on Folders

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The image above describe best what I’m trying to explain here. On the left is what you get on a normal Quicklook, as for the one of the right, it gives you a more informative and in depth look into the files within a folder.

Like it? Click here to download the necessary files, we’ll proceed to installation steps soon.

Quicklook on other file formats

You can also make quicklook works on these following file formats:

  1. .ZIP - download
  2. .FLV - download
  3. .EPS - download
  4. .XML - download
  5. .AI (Adobe Illustrator) - download
  6. Textmate - download

Installation

Upon download, place the .qlgenerator file inside /Library/QuickLook/ and relaunch Finder. Quicklook should now give you a brand new perspective of your files.

If you noticed that the new quicklook did not work after a Finder relaunch, try relaunching the Finder again.

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Posted by hongkiat in Mac Tips , at 05.15.08

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Comments

  1. Felix May 15th, 2008

    one of the best post hongkiat! thx

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  2. hongkiat May 15th, 2008

    @Felix Thanks, I really like this Quicklook mode.

    Reply
  3. Wendy May 16th, 2008

    Also got other common format, such as package file :)
    QuickLookPlugins.com almost lists all useful QuickLook plugins (for free? Maybe..).

    Reply
  4. george May 16th, 2008

    This is cool man… thanks for sharing :)

    Reply
  5. Rodrigo Henrik May 24th, 2008

    Very very good! Thanks

    Reply

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