Quicklook and Preview - The dynamic duo
Using a mac after an eternity with Microsoft software is like heaven. Interestingly I have never thought that heaven was fast, lightning fast. My Mac experience has been strongly associated with speed, due to my choice of MacBook Pro as my main machine, 4GBs of RAM I have on board and probably due to Mac OS X. The sense of speed is not available in BootCamp using Windows XP.
Mac OS X seems not to care about the number of open applications and the complexity of rendering visuals. It is as if there are reserve power under the hood whenever you feel like you need it.
There are however two components of Mac OS X, especially 10.5 (Leopard) that makes the experience complete. These are Quicklook and Preview, where the former is 10.5 only, while Preview has been around for a while.
These two applications help you access any resource any time with great speed. With Quicklook you can check the MP3 file you have found with no descriptive name with a single key or access contents of a document you have downloaded in seconds. The alternative is to load up a Word processor (and unfortunately word processors these days seem to be able to clog even a mainframe-class computer). Preview on the other hand opens tons of different file types ranging from images to PDFs and even manipulate them, converting image formats, cropping etc. I have to say that I am impressed these functionality is provided with the operating system out-of-the-box and works smooth as silk.
Note: While writing this post a memory of a game called “Dynamic Dux” arrived from the depths of time when we all had C64s and Amigas. I couldn’t find any pictures, videos and information for this game except some cheats. Can anyone out there help me?
I agree with the first line
Macs rule 