I love bypassing content filters. Here’s a fast and easy way you can use your computer at home (Running an OpenSSH server) to get past web content filters at work or school.
Here’s what we need
You may be surprised to know that Leopard includes a command line version of Quick Look called “qlmanage”. If you’re a heavy terminal user like me this is incredibly handy.
I tend to do all my file organizing via the terminal so say I’m copying some jpeg files and I want to make sure they’re the ones I’m interested copying I can type the following command into the terminal to get a Quick Look preview of them all
qlmanage -p ./*.jpg
Which shows me all the .jpg files in my current directory or I could just preview one
qlmanage -p ./image.jpg
If you’re into bash or Perl scripting this opens up all sorts of cool possibilities.
There are also a selection of command line switched aside form the -p (preview) switch. I’ve listed a few of the more useful ones below.
-t Show thumbnails of the documents
-s size Size for the thumbnail
-f factor Scale factor for the thumbnail
As always if you have any problems, questions, comments or suggestions post them below in the comments section.
