Quick Look Bonus

Quick Look technology was introduced with Mac OS X Leopard. Quick Look lets you view a preview of a file without the application that created it. It's very handy when you're looking for something and you don't know exactly what or where it is.

Now let's say you're in Word, and you want to open a document you haven't worked on in a while, and you can't quite remember what it's called (this happens to me with frightening regularity!). As of Snow Leopard Quick Look works from the Open Document dialog of any application. So you can hit Command ()-O, and in the dialog that appears, highlight any document and hit the space bar. A Quick Look window will appear, giving you a preview of the document without having to fully open it. It's a great time saver!