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Greatest Mac Moment #23: Quick Look
Quick Look. Two words that brilliantly sum up one of the most important and yet least celebrated additions to the Mac experience. When stripped down to basics, Quick Look is merely a document preview. But what a preview! Using it, you can preview the majority of documents on your Mac by selecting them and hitting space, without opening the documents’ parent applications. Quick Look ...
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Quick Look is 23rd greatest Mac Moment (whoo hoo!)
MacUser — ... have deemed it the 23rd greatest "Mac Moment." Quick Look's simplicity and streamlined approach take a mundane, boring chore (hunting for wily files) and made it well, fun. I've been known to select a whole bunch of files at, press the spacebar, and then turn on the fullscreen option. Yes, I certainly know how to live it up on a Friday or Saturday night (and my eardrums thank me for it). ...

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