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Snow Leopard to Provide Icon-Level Previews
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Hopefully this means 512-pixel icon support in Snow Leopard's Finder.
Skimming for the Finder.
100.8, or the equivalent of that when taking account varying pixel sizes.
I wonder if Apple plans on introducing any more features to Snow Leopard's Finder to make it finally more comparable to Windows Explorer.
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this is rather cool if u wanna hear a song preview and not use quicklook for it, and no more hitting apple + I in order to hear it.
this is rather cool if u wanna hear a song preview and not use quicklook for it, and no more hitting apple + I in order to hear it.
Not really, no. Just a different way to get to previews. There are at least three ways now: column view, Get Info, and CoverFlow, all of which do the same.
Sure you can. The play button doesn't appear instantaneously. Browse and double click works just like it did before.
Why would you watch any movie in preview mode? You're not playing the video, you're using its preview to identify it if the filename doesn't give you enough. If you want to watch the whole thing, open the file or use Quick Look.
Nearly all of my icon previews show something other than the first frame. It depends on the source and the authoring program, I guess.
Actually, he kinda does. When you are in column view in finder, when you hover over an music file, it gives you a play/stop button when you hover over it.
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Can you read the text, or does it just show a thumbnail-sized page? Last time I saw Vista, the icon preview was just like the OS X icon: it shows the thumbnail version.
i am serious.
don't have any clue how this feature was enabled on my copy of leopard, which yes, was bought online, 129, i have run SEVERAl os updates, and installed several solutional apps to make things run smoothly on the XPS , mostly from insanelymac and mac wiki so on and so forth...i LOVE this finder preview feature guys..
don't have any clue how this feature was enabled on my copy of leopard, which yes, was bought online, 129, i have run SEVERAl os updates, and installed several solutional apps to make things run smoothly on the XPS , mostly from insanelymac and mac wiki so on and so forth...i LOVE this finder preview feature guys..
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hmm
shots don't lie..
check that one again buddy.
looks like i am not the only one that already see's this preview feature available..i have had this for roughly 2 months
shots don't lie..
check that one again buddy.
looks like i am not the only one that already see's this preview feature available..i have had this for roughly 2 months
haha
im gonna go ahead and let the pictures do the talking sky
its not my fault you are deprived of your finder features =)
jealous much?
im gonna go ahead and let the pictures do the talking sky
its not my fault you are deprived of your finder features =)
jealous much?
Except switching from the Finder stops the playback which is kind of irritating.
This is seriously cool!
I saw something similar to this in a linux distro a bit ago (i think PCLinuxOS.) Although it was more of a skimming effect on audio files - it got annoying to be honest because when ever you moused over an audio file it would start playing and if you were already listening to some music you would get a horrible mix!
I saw something similar to this in a linux distro a bit ago (i think PCLinuxOS.) Although it was more of a skimming effect on audio files - it got annoying to be honest because when ever you moused over an audio file it would start playing and if you were already listening to some music you would get a horrible mix!
There seem to be so many ways to do the same thing, some of them seem a little unnecessary to me.
I'm sure he isn't jealous of a fail, plus everyone using Leopard has this feature, but in icon view they don't.
been mentioned but for this to be useful (and the current column preview mode) you have to be able to skim through.
Its possible to skim through videos in leopard in quick look and column view but you have to press play again. But there is no visual indication on how far into the video you are.
Theres nothing you can do with audio files.
In some ways it was a step back in removing the seek bar from the column view and get info window
Its possible to skim through videos in leopard in quick look and column view but you have to press play again. But there is no visual indication on how far into the video you are.
Theres nothing you can do with audio files.
In some ways it was a step back in removing the seek bar from the column view and get info window
Don't worry just ignore me, I re-read it and I think I misunderstood it the first time 
If its just a still image then the below is still the same but if its an animated icon, can't personally see a use for it.
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I know this a new feature for os-x but windows vista can already do this with most files (the program has to be coded for it in windows), so I wouldn't say its revolutionary.
I know any video with the right codecs installed can do this in any location, as long as the size of the icon is big enough. Office also has the option (since the last version iirc), adobe used to until adobe wanted us all to use their crap browser, any images do, solidworks and 3ds max do or atleast did as well.
I only really find it useful for video's and images, the rest of the files are just too small to be of any use, coverflow is a much nicer approach when using a file manager, although the 'sample' icons are good for a quick launch approach on the desktop.
If its just a still image then the below is still the same but if its an animated icon, can't personally see a use for it.
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I know this a new feature for os-x but windows vista can already do this with most files (the program has to be coded for it in windows), so I wouldn't say its revolutionary.
I know any video with the right codecs installed can do this in any location, as long as the size of the icon is big enough. Office also has the option (since the last version iirc), adobe used to until adobe wanted us all to use their crap browser, any images do, solidworks and 3ds max do or atleast did as well.
I only really find it useful for video's and images, the rest of the files are just too small to be of any use, coverflow is a much nicer approach when using a file manager, although the 'sample' icons are good for a quick launch approach on the desktop.
The preview frame is about 10 seconds into the movie.
That's what I was thinking. At least Vista's icons can go up to 256·256 and there's the option of a preview pane in Windows Explorer that supports large previews.
Photoshopped pictures can do a lot of talking, although these pictures aren't.
The "stop" button is actually a "pause" button (both Cover Flow and column view). Weird.