Andrew’s Mac Tips Weblog

FolderGlance has a really helpful often overlooked feature that I thought I’d mention here. Its main party piece is the way you can “Glance” inside folders and other packages such as applications. The often overlooked feature is that if you right-click on documents and other such files, FolderGlance presents you with an extended “Open With…” Menu.

The standard OSX “Open With…” menu shows apps that are officially registered to open the selected file type. FolderGlance lets you populate its menu with any app you choose; you simply designate an “Open With…” folder and then for each of your favorite apps, you make an alias and then drop it there.

Andrew’s Mac Tips — Quick Review — FolderGlance

If you don’t want to launch iPhoto just to show off your latest images it’s very easy to set up a smart folder in the finder that will show just those images, and give you a one-click slideshow solution.
 

 
Notice how one of the parameters is “Keywords.” If that wasn’t there then the smart folder would also include iPhoto-generated thumbnails and duplicates and they would spoil your quick presentation. So, make sure that all your images have at least one shared keyword.