My plugin is better than yours

The plethora of plugin type apps that are available for OS X is astounding. Latest on my list of cool things on OS X are QuickLook Plugins. Microsoft should take note of something that is superbly useful, clean and pluggable. Not that MS has a history of making things easy... but yet another thing in a long list of things that make it easier to make that decision to switch. For the uninitiated, QuickLook is the ability to preview files on your Mac without actually opening them in an application by simply selecting the file and hitting your space bar. It's very much like lightbox for your computer. It works well or things like text files, mp3s, image files and desktop publishing files if you have a desktop publishing suite installed. If you've never installed any QuickLook plugins. You'll need to create a directory for your account in ~/Library named QuickLook. Want to preview what's in that ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary file you just downloaded without actually unzipping it? Download and Install BetterZip. Read about it here.

BetterZip QuickLook Plugin I write code and read other people's code. Sometimes I don't want to wait for my IDE to load to see what's in a file. I can preview it now with QLColorCode Plugin. It has fairly simple syntax highliting but it's sufficient that it's easy to see functions, variables, comments and text.

QLColorCode Plugin There are a few more I could mention but you get the basic idea. Check out a repository of plugins here.