In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple introduced a new technology called Quick Look, as fast and easy way to preview media, documents, and other files on your computer without having to open up an entire program to view their contents. QuickLook was available from Finder in CoverFlow mode, where you could click on the file in CoverFlow to preview it, in List Mode, you could view your the selected item by clicking it once, then clicking the icon in the sidebar to view a quick preview of it, or just by clicking a file and pressing the space bar.

Taking it one step further in the next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard, Apple is incorporating QuickLook into the file's icons themselves, making it even easier to preview your media without even having to open a program. When the user rolls the cursor over the desired file's icon, a gray triangle will appear. When clicked, the icon will show a full preview of its contents.

For other types of files such as Keynote presentations or Microsoft Word documents, QuickLook will allow you to flick through the pages and slides in the file without having to open up the respective application.

Yes, this will definitely be a nifty feature to have, but unless you've got your icons cranked up to the maximum size, it may pose as a bit of a challenge to preview your files in that tiny icon view.

Snow Leopard is the next generation of Mac OS X and is due sometime in 2009.

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Cool. I'm guessing there will be an option to disable this in the event the user is not too lazy to hit the spacebar.

Awesome. Never use Quick Look except if I accidently lean on the Space Bar but I saw something similar to this with music files on Ubuntu. This will be a regularly used feature on my Mac.

cool, i'm using quick look a lot and found this future very useful. but i think that there should be an option to disable quicklook directly by clicking an icon. many accidental quicklook might occur, i would stick to spacebar- its helthier to use 2 hands;p
anyway, it just prooves that apple has best people from innovative technology:D
can't wait to try it

Nice report Colonel.

Quick Look is brilliant and I use it all the time. But this new feature just seems pointless and something I don't see anyone seriously using, for the reasons already explained by Colonel. Just looks to me it's been made for the sake of it. The only thing I can ever think of using it for is MP3s.

This seems so logical to me. I love the way the interface is heading.

Like thumbnails in Vista... But I shared my proud to see they come out in OS X! Good job Colonel and keep on making some good fatty friedchicken !

Well... this is exactly a current feature in Ubuntu Hardy.
Anyway... it worked only for audio files as I can remember.
If you hover the icon for like 3 seconds, it starts playing.
And for viewing actual documents on the icon, we can find some sort of this behavior in Windows Vista.
As always we can expect an improved, useful and stylish feature coming from apple.

Same for OSX.
Difference that for many-pages documents you will be also able to see other pages in Snow Leo, not only front page.

Cool. Can't wait to get a OSx86 version of Snow L

Cool.

So I will look forward to being able to see the contents of my InDesign files, Illustrator .eps file, Dreamweaver files, Flash working files, Photoshop .psd files, and other people's Publisher files with just a hit of the space bar, and without opening any of those apps.

All riiiiiiight.

Except, I have all those apps open already. Doh!

well THIS is cool. First I thought every icon will be covered with a play/pause or traingle when I looked ad the pictures... but as I see this is only the case if you roll over it coool . very innovative respect! and thx for the news Colonel

yah its a pretty nifty tool. i dont see why everyone is complaining about the snow leopard preview being so buggy. im running it on my macbook and its fine

already got snow leopard here, just wondering to use it on my laptop or wait 'till my desktop is done

can't wait to get snow leopard...macs are so cool!

thats really cool thanks for ur info ... btw the "alfa" have already this to try out???

Looks kind of Linux-ish

isnt there already this feature in leopard? i know that when i am in coverflow in a folder full of movies i can play it right from its coverflow icon....? maybe im missing something here...

Heh, that's actually really cool. Apple is really creative, I have to say. I like

I want full Multicore support, not things like that, sorry don´t need design, need power.

Straight ripped from Ubuntu. The sad part is that many will claim that this is an innovative feature created by Apple because people don't use Ubuntu. All respect goes to Ubuntu and open source.

Great I am waiting for snow leopard.

Yeah I was just thinking that. Dream Linux does the same thing.

exactly ...slowly this is turning into a laugh story

multiproc . support is a joke
core apps like FinalCut /DS pro are still 32 bit ..and use only 2 GB memory
and render without Quadcore support
no bluray support for almost 2 years now !
no support for the uvd engine of modern graphic cards like the 2xxx, 3xxxx, 4xxxx ATI/AMD cards for almost 3 years !!!
(Mac OS X 90 % cpu load (unplayable)------- XP/Vista 1 % CPU load with a >30 Mbit H.264 HD file and an ATI 3850 )
Graphic cards are 2 generations behind their Windows counterparts with amusing drivers
Quicktime is slow as molasses - almost no Multiproc .support for years now

Enough Apple
enough with fancy design and useless gimmiks , Apple ...
yes. we want speed Apple
and a modern , lean and stable MacOSX
or finally merge with Walt Disney comp.

best

M (b.t.w. : 2 Cupertino Apples * 1 hackapple)

I think Apple are going to address all of your concerns exactly in Snow Leopard.

Me likey. I also use Quick Look all the time when searching for pics and ebooks.

this has been in linux for about 3 years nothing new

Whatever, Linux has nothing like Quick Look.

I use Quick Look to scan through hundreds of excel spreadsheets. I use it every day. If there is a Linux feature that does the same thing, I say way to go Linux! If there is a Windows feature that does the same thing, I say way to go Windows!

Q1

New leak screen shots here:

http://community.sevenmac.de/Sinan/albums/89/734

You can't be more wrong - I use this since 2007 already! Kind of like coverflow, which Apple bought. Remember? Or wait, like the tabs in Safari, which are 'borrowed' from Mozilla, which borrowed it from MultiZilla. Or wait, like the tabs in Finder, which I developed for Apple and David Hyatt gets the credit for. Whatever!