rapid fire

In today’s PowerUser Monday, I’d like to introduce
to you your new best friend–PicturePop [MacUpdate
info page]. Never heard of it? Probably because it’s tucked away on a French
developers site with no PR budget. Hopefully,
this column will give him the credit he deserves. PicturePop is a free
contextual menu plug-in for previewing images in OS X. It works on everything
from GIF’s to PDF’s, but doesn’t do movies and such (just images, but I
hope movies come soon…even though it’s called PicturePop )

When used in tandem with my MetaData
in the Finder tip last week, images will never be the same.

When
you right click (or control-click for those without a 2 button mouse)
on an image, select “Show With PicturePop” and let go. Once you
do, the file shows up in a window that goes away once you click on it.

Everything is done in the Finder. Preview doesn’t
open, it’s just the Finder. It uses the Quartz rendering engine (I’m assuming)
and is quite speedy.

If you thought that was cool, select 3 or 4 images and choose “Show
With Picture Pop”. Now they come up in rapid fire! Once you click to
close one, the next one shows up until there are no more.

Go download it, it’s only 50K and give it a try. Make sure to read the
directions, there isn’t a fancy installer (you have to drag it to a folder
by yourself). If you like it