(preface: if someone has a better place for me to post this please tell me)
This is my gripe: There are hundreds of useful applications out there, however the problem is often the app's name has nothing to do with what the application does, or it uses some clever play-on-words (case in point: Senuti is itunes spelled backward and it takes songs from the ipod, but this isn't obvious). Either way for apps that I know I have that serve a very specific purpose and are rarely used so I can't remember what they are called, I have to do one of the following:
a) Run a whole bunch of random apps that are all in the specific folders I categorize according to function and find out which it is
b) "Tag" all my apps with spotlight notes about their function (which I do) and then "get info" on all of them
c) Rename all my apps' aliases with the name followed by the function (ie: "senuti ipod extractor"), but the problem with this is the file names all become ellipsed, and besides its not as pretty
so HERE'S MY QUESTION:
Is there any application that allows all finder files to display tooltips? I would love to be able to hover over each app and have it display a tiny tooltip of, say, what is written in spotlight notes.
OR:
Is there anyway to tweak quicklook to display more file info (ie: the spotlight notes info)? That would actually be really useful for everyone, to be able to modify what exactly quicklook shows from the file info.
So anyhow, if anyone knows of anything like this, that would be awesome. Or if some rockstar coder knows how to either make tooltips happen for finder or how to change what information quicklook displays, that would be equally rad. Thanks for your help and ideas.
This is my gripe: There are hundreds of useful applications out there, however the problem is often the app's name has nothing to do with what the application does, or it uses some clever play-on-words (case in point: Senuti is itunes spelled backward and it takes songs from the ipod, but this isn't obvious). Either way for apps that I know I have that serve a very specific purpose and are rarely used so I can't remember what they are called, I have to do one of the following:
a) Run a whole bunch of random apps that are all in the specific folders I categorize according to function and find out which it is
b) "Tag" all my apps with spotlight notes about their function (which I do) and then "get info" on all of them
c) Rename all my apps' aliases with the name followed by the function (ie: "senuti ipod extractor"), but the problem with this is the file names all become ellipsed, and besides its not as pretty
so HERE'S MY QUESTION:
Is there any application that allows all finder files to display tooltips? I would love to be able to hover over each app and have it display a tiny tooltip of, say, what is written in spotlight notes.
OR:
Is there anyway to tweak quicklook to display more file info (ie: the spotlight notes info)? That would actually be really useful for everyone, to be able to modify what exactly quicklook shows from the file info.
So anyhow, if anyone knows of anything like this, that would be awesome. Or if some rockstar coder knows how to either make tooltips happen for finder or how to change what information quicklook displays, that would be equally rad. Thanks for your help and ideas.