The TOP-10 plug-ins for QuickLook

With the arrival of Mac OS X 10.5, we are accustomed to a lot of tools, without which it is difficult to imagine daily operations. Some of them have turned self-sufficient example is Time Machine, the other, with all its Innovative require expanding its functionality.

There is not any need to tell what "Quick view function file": Highlight in Windows Explorer the document and click "space" - voila, before you instantly appear contents of a file without having to launch any application. Convenient, and most importantly very quickly. Unfortunately, not all is rosy, many specific files QuickLook can not read, can not yet ...

Fortunately Apple engineers developing QuickLook, made the creation and installation of third-party plug-ins are not a matter of challenging for experienced users. Over the last year, on the resources devoted to the QL-plugins appeared completely new development, the existence of and the need for which few people thought earlier, update the old time-tested modules that are required to have a Mac-user. Before you start listing the merits of this or that supplement, will hold a small instruction: 1) plug-in for QL has the extension * .qlgenerator 2) installing the plugin for the current user, put the file in the following path ~ username / Library / QuickLook directory 3) to install the plugin for all users, use the following path / Library / QuickLook 4) After installing the plugin you must Log out or command «qlmanage -r» in Terminal 5) The majority of plugins are free of charge (including those presented herein), few are distributed on a commercial basis to perform very specific tasks.

Here's how we think looks the 10-ka most useful plugins for QuickLook:

1. Folder Viewer unlike regular plug-in allows you to view the contents of a folder in every detail

2. BetterZip the best plug-in for viewing files, work with ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary files. Does not require installed program

3. Safari webArchive It allows you to view web-archives

4. Photoshop Brush Files the dream of every designer has come true, the plugin for viewing Adobe PS brushes.

5. Bittorrent - a very interesting plugin to view meta-data contained in the torrent files, it is very helpful in clearing deposits in the torrent folder

6. IPA dedicated to all owners of iPhone and iPod Touch, plug-in to view files with the extension * .ipa, allows us to consider in detail the application icons, better than the monotonous «itunes files"

7. ImageFolderQLGenerator plugin generates folder contained therein image

8. ColorXML-plugin. View the contents of xml-files with syntax highlighting

9. Flash Video Viewer the name speaks for itself, for the work required to run Perian codecs

10. Suspicious Package will show you the contents of the standard Apple installer package (* .pkg), to help detect unwanted software.

In one review it is impossible to cover all variety of plug-ins created by third-party developers, so I recommend to keep abreast of and periodically visit the two most popular repository quicklookplugins.com and qlplugins.com. We will also be glad to know what plugins you use.