macgrudersaidthis

bailey_ca says: "Rapidly starting to suck"? In my experience, it works perfectly doing exactly what it is designed to do, and doing it well. The reason it does 'act like an OS X app should' is that it is designed not to come to the front like normal apps. In other words, its window sits on top of the screen and has slight transparency, but you are still in the Finder. In such cases the interface choice makes a certain amount of sense.

It's irritating that 'sucks' can mean 'not perfect'. For me it's pretty damn near perfect. With the demise of Pic2Icon it seems the only alternative, and one that is both free and effective.

It doesn't suck.

Heh, I think I'll stick with my current version.

I love how you can save the thumbnails, which as a web designer I need to do often. Very handy, does its job fast and well.

Nice app.
But could have been even better.
1. It adds icons to files that cannot be rendered. This results in ugly mini-icons. I would suggest an option like "add icon to rendered files only".
2. Its effects (shaddow and mirror-effect) make very small icons for all portrait format pictures. I would suggest options like "no shaddow" and "no mirror effect" or "iconize content only".

I use this to create icons from album cover, then copy that icon to the album's folder.
It would be nice if it had the option to set icons to a folder, based on the first picture or movie it finds in it.
Meanwhile, does anybody know how to copy an icon from one file to another faster than going through the info windows (eg: via a special keyboard shortcut)?

Unfortunately, the drop shadow doesn't work when I do 'add thumbnail'. It works when I save as icns file, but that makes the process longer.

> Unfortunately, the drop shadow doesn't work when I do 'add thumbnail'. It works when I save as icns file, but that makes the process longer.
Actually it works, maybe the icon just didn't refresh properly...

I'm not even so sure that this is the program I used before, it's looks totally different.

This spring, I used a program that would sit quietly in it's own window, allow me to drag images too it, and it would rotate, drop shadow, and put a border around it to make it look like a printed image.

http://mypage.iu.edu/~wstubbs/V369/project2/joshua_tree_thumbnail.png

Where, oh where, did my little wonder app go....

This software was quite useful. However, Leopard Finder can now generate thumbnail by itself.

This is one of the first apps I downloaded to my MBP about a year ago and it quickly became one of my all time favourite apps.
Just keep it in the dock and drag entire folders or single files onto the dock icon and it converts them and closes nicely with nary a problem. It has no complication creating a thumbnail for hundreds of files at a time, including entire folders worth of photos, icons or movies. It has allowed me to customize my icons like I never thought I would have been able to and helps me locate images in a flash and all for free (though I loved it so much I did donate a bit to the developer).
Overall, CocoThumbX, apart from the name and the fact that I cannot change it's own icon and still retain dock-functionality is a good solid piece of software that helps me out everyday. I completely recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Certain wmv files can take an age to open (over a minute). Otherwise seems to work with most stuff.

It's a useful plugin, but i really wish .wmv would die...

I'd happily pay $4 for a gallon of gas if ALL Windows Media Formats would die a horrible and painful public death... Die WMV! DIE!!!! Quicktime, anf Flash are all ANYONE needs.

Until then.. I'll use this helpful lil app.

This is already listed in this website, under "Flip4Mac WMV" (with more than 4000 users).
There's no need for this second entry.

That one didn't come up in AppFresh, so I thought it might be a slightly different version.

People at I Use This:
Why don't you delete this entry of Flip4Mac WMV and add these users to the more than 4000 users of the original post?
There's no need for this second entry.

yeah, ok :)

Should the page here list betaversions or the official version from the author's homepage?

Unfortunately, Safari 3 cannot launch WMV Player without crashing any more. Flip4Mac to the rescue? -- not quite. There are still numerous .wax and .wvx files that WON'T play with Flip4Mac. Flip4Mac simply states "cannot play this file, please go to our website" (why, I don't know).
Examples are, again, Univ of Edinburgh lectures (eg Gifford Lectures), the .wvx and .wax files WILL NOT RUN in Flip4Mac......only WMV Player can play them. There are many others I've come across too that don't play in Flip4Mac.

Is there a solution?.....YES......use both. Here's how I did it:

1 Quit Safari
2 Download the latest Flip4Mac.dmg file and open it.....DO NOT INSTALL IT.
3 Instead, use Pacifist to selectively install the following components:
* the 3 QT components (export/import/advanced) into /Library/QuickTime
* the 2 internet plugins (wmv.plugin/wmvplugin.webplugin) into /Library/Internet Plug-ins
Prebindings will be auto-updated as they are transferred by pacifist.

4 Ignore the .app and the prefpane - unecessary bloat imo.....all you need is the above plugins/components

5 Download the last available WMV Player (9.0.0) from the ms website and install it.
6 navigate to /Library/Internet Plug-ins and delete the "Windows Media Plugin" file (this causes Safari to launch WMV Player - don't want that now as we have F4M installed).

7 Run Disk Utility and Repair Permissions (just in case, but should be fine anyway).

Now, we have a streamlined install where the internet side is handled by Flip4Mac and the standalone is WMV Player. If you do come across a file that won't play in Flip4Mac, it will inform you after Safari enters the page.
So double click the address bar and copy the address.
Launch WMV player and hit "Apple-U" and paste the URL......file will now play fine in the standalone WMV Player.

So a combination of both will play any .wmv/.wax/.wvx file you come across (and doing the above avoids unnecessary bloat in the form of unneeded prefpanes for instance - and by keeping the two seperate, avoids any software conflicts between the two).

This is a great app this I couldn't live without.

Many people misunderstand what it does comparing it with Spotlight. Spotlight lets you find stuff (and launch), Quicksilver lets you do stuff. A couple of examples:

Select an image:
command - escape
type 'Sc' [for scale]
400
the image is rescaled

then type
command-space
re [rename]
something.jpg

the same image has been renamed

type
command-space
m [mail]
ma [mail it to macgruder, say]
return

and the image is in a new message to macgruder. All this in about 3 seconds.

Or
command-space
4
return

The tune I'm presently listening to in iTunes has been rated a 4 (try doing that in Spotlight). All without leaving the App you are using.

Add triggers to Apple scripts,
F6 (that's it in my case)
and the two front windows are resized to sit side by side filling the screen - very useful on a G5 iMac.

Or
command-option-control - w (close all the windows except the front one)

Of course, you can choose triggers you remember.

Thanks for the icons download link, that's been bugging me for a while. Although, what I really want is a transparent icon for this.