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Snow Leopard to Provide Icon-Level Previews


AppleInsider reports that the preview version of Snow Leopard provides users with a quick way to review audio files within Finder:

One person familiar with the pre-release software notes that hovering the mouse pointer over an audio file in Snow Leopard's Finder will trigger a triangular 'play' button to appear on the icon itself. Clicking the button will allow the audio file to play within the Finder, but without opening a specialized preview window.

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47 months ago
That's quite a delicious tweak. :p
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47 months ago
WOW!

That's seriously amazing. I hope Snow Leopard's Finder will be able to support icon sizes up to 512 pixels (up from Leopard's 128) to better make use of this.

I was hoping for Skimming support though.

I think this should be on the front page.
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47 months ago
Thats pretty neat. Cannot wait to try that out.
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47 months ago
pretty nice. I like the Quick Look preview in 10.5 with the album art.
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47 months ago

That's quite a delicious tweak. :p

So much for "no new features." :rolleyes::p Not that I'm complaining of course. :D
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47 months ago
The advancement of Finder-level functionality has been one of my favorite aspects of Leopard. This development only furthers said functionality.
Neat!
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47 months ago
Thats pretty sweet. Great idea.
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47 months ago

The advancement of Finder-level functionality has been one of my favorite aspects of Leopard. This development only furthers said functionality.
Neat!

And people say that Apple's neglecting the Finder... :rolleyes:;):D
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47 months ago
but in leopard, if u "quicklook" (spacebar) on a mp3 it will play it. i don't see why this is so exciting
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47 months ago

WOW!

That's seriously amazing. I hope Snow Leopard's Finder will be able to support icon sizes up to 512 pixels (up from Leopard's 128) to better make use of this.

I was hoping for Skimming support though.

I think this should be on the front page.


Leopard already supports up to 512 px. Tiger supported up to 128 px.
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