The macosxhints Rating:
[Score: 10 out of 10]
- Developer: PIXTURE STUDIO / Product Page
- Price: Free!
Read the rest of the hint for the ones that I found most useful...
Here are the PIXTURE STUDIO plug-ins that I presently have installed:
- FinderIconCM 2.0 - This is what got me pointed to Hide's site in the first place; it was mentioned in a comment to an earlier hint. With this CM, you can view, copy, delete, and even create custom icons directly from the Finder. Amazingly useful if you work with custom icons much at all.
- QuickImageCM - A basic image manipulating CM. You can view the image without opening any applications, add and remove thumbnail icons, create an HTML IMG tag (with height and width settings) based on the image, batch rename images, and convert to different formats. The built-in viewer is actually quite powerful, with scaling, trimming, and sizing options.
- PhotoToolCM - This CM starts where QuickImageCM ends. You can apply a number of lossless options (including cleaning to reduce file size), edit comments and EXIF dates, and perform batch renaming and/or resizing operations. I don't use the editing features much, but the feature I do use is the Photo EXIF CM option. This displays all the EXIF info captured by your camera when the image was taken -- focal length, aperture, date, file size, format, etc.
- PDFViewCM - Similar to QuickImageCM, except this one lets you view PDFs without using Preview or Acrobat. You can zoom, rotate, jump to a certain page, and even print directly from this viewer. Very handy for downloaded manuals that you just want to take a quick glance at.
- CalculateSizeCM - Select a folder, then select this CM, and you'll get a summary showing total size, size taken on the drive, number of files and folders (including hidden files/folders), and some info on data and resource fork sizes. This tool will peer inside of bundles, too -- Chess.app, for instance, contains 69 files and 13 folders (none are invisible) comprising 3.4mb in total size, taking 3.5mb on disk.
I haven't had a bit of trouble with any of the CM plug-ins, and they all work very nicely and do exactly what they claim to do. The fact that they're all free, with nary a PayPal link to be found, is amazing. While you're on the PIXTURE STUDIO site, check out some of Hide's other work -- he's done some pretty nice design work in addition to the programming projects.

