10.5: Quick Look inside variety of compressed archives
I was happy to see this hint about Quick Look support for examining the contents of zip files. However, since I do a lot of my work back and forth with *nix users, most of my compressed archives are gzipped or bzipped tarballs. I was directed to the free BetterZip Quick Look Generator. This Quick Look Generator will examine the contents of ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary files. And as noted, it's free! [robg adds: While this is mentioned in the comments to the referenced hint, given that this plug-in really handles most types of compressed files, I felt it was a unique enough Quick Look plug-in to merit a hint of its own. This plug-in is appar...
published on Thursday, the 13. December 2007, macosxhints