I honestly don’t recall this feature in Mac OS X Leopard, so I’m going to assume it’s new in Snow Leopard. But apparently you can hover over a media file in Snow Leopard and a play button will appear allowing you to preview the file’s contents (video/song) without having to open up a specific application. There you go, I learned something today.
Author of Windows file copy dialog visits some friends
July 21, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
This is so true. Thanks Eric!
Music video that purposely looks like it is corrupted
February 12, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
If you’ve ever download a video from the web, you’ve probably run into the problem of getting a corrupted or incomplete video file at least once. The result, when you try to play the file, usually ends up looking either very pixely or distorted with lots of digital video artifacts in between frames. In other words, it looks like the music video for “Evident Utensil” by Chairlift shown above.
The thing I love about this music video though is that it’s made so well to deliberately mimic the look of a corrupted file, so much so that I actually thought I was watching a badly uploaded YouTube video. But when I realized that the morphing transitions within the video were carefully constructed, I literally stopped everything I was doing and gave the video my full attention. I really want to know what they did to get the effect so perfect and realistic.
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