Quick Look is 23rd greatest Mac Moment (whoo hoo!)

With the introduction of Quick Look in Mac OS 10.5
(sorry, I just like saying it),
it suddenly made more sense to just throw all of one’s files into a big metaphorical heap on the metaphorical floor. Who needs sub-folders that go seven layers deep when selecting a file in Finder and pressing spacebar yields a super-sized preview of it (with a fullscreen option to boot)? Thanks to Quick Look, I could technically never have to fire up iTunes just to watch Dr. Horrible again—I’d just preview the files directly in the Finder! Man, I love the 21st century!

Seems I’m not the only one riding the Quick Look train—the peoples at Cult of Mac 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).

Then there’s the Quick Look plugins! If getting a kick out of file-management utilities is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.