Monthly Archives: November 2007

Quicklook Plug-in Management

I can see two glaring problems with QuickLook now that I have messed with it for a bit.
Firstly it is too easy to install conflicting generators and secondly keeping existing generators up to date is a PITA.  I might throw together a plug-in manager to mitigate those omissions. 
Here is a bit of Interface Builder Porn: 

Changes to Quicklook plug-in

I did a quick edit to my QuickLook plug-in to make it work with cbz files exclusively.
For those that don’t know, cbz is an extension used to identify comic zip files.  This change allows users to install other zip QuickLook plugins without worrying about conflicts.
The new version can be downloaded here: Link 
Users of Simple Comic should probably [...]

Simple Comic 1.6.1

Well I neglected to post a blog entry for the release of 1.6. So this one will have to suffice for 1.6 and 1.6.1.
In any case here it is.Download 1.6.1
The localizers really knocked themselves out getting all the changes I made in 1.6 translated for 1.6.1. A round of applause for all of them.
If you [...]

QuickLook plug-in for zip files

To get used to the QuickLook plug-in architecture I did what everyone seems to be doing. Namely write a zip inspection module. The mysterious and prolific Hetima has already created one which is available here.
So anyway my plugin uses Hetima’s unzip framework to inspect the contents of any given zip/cbz, ignoring everything but [...]