Comments on: Five freeware programs to help you find the optimal informational tooltips for most file types http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/ Freeware reviews and downloads, featuring the coolest, best free software Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:57:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mak http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-78432 Mak Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:18:43 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-78432 I hate tooltips. With AudioShell, they turned to nags for me - there's no option to disable them (except hacking the registry). Nice feature: add extra columns to Explorer, BUT: Windows has no easy way to apply this to a range of selected folders. MediaInfo is indispensable (along with GSpot), while Filetip and Thumbview are somewhat redundant. There are plenty of small fancy add-ons, but still no good tool to display and compare tags in a convenient, orderly fashion in Explorer. I hate tooltips. With AudioShell, they turned to nags for me – there’s no option to disable them (except hacking the registry). Nice feature: add extra columns to Explorer, BUT: Windows has no easy way to apply this to a range of selected folders.
MediaInfo is indispensable (along with GSpot), while Filetip and Thumbview are somewhat redundant.

There are plenty of small fancy add-ons, but still no good tool to display and compare tags in a convenient, orderly fashion in Explorer.

]]> By: Alek Davis http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-70864 Alek Davis Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:37:37 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-70864 Nice summary of handy tools. I've been using InfoTag Magic, but will check out others. Nice summary of handy tools. I’ve been using InfoTag Magic, but will check out others.

]]> By: Fred Thompson http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-69318 Fred Thompson Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:30:59 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-69318 Be VERY careful with MediaInfo's context menu support. That's the "right-click" option in the configuration menu. I turned it off because it doesn't play well with others and right-click response turned into a crawl. I'm not sure exactly what causes the problem as I use multiple context menu extensions. Nonetheless, the handler for MediaInfo is programmed poorly or it wouldn't have this problem. It also defaults to M which is the standard letter for renaming. Doubleplusungood. Be VERY careful with MediaInfo’s context menu support. That’s the “right-click” option in the configuration menu. I turned it off because it doesn’t play well with others and right-click response turned into a crawl. I’m not sure exactly what causes the problem as I use multiple context menu extensions. Nonetheless, the handler for MediaInfo is programmed poorly or it wouldn’t have this problem. It also defaults to M which is the standard letter for renaming. Doubleplusungood.

]]> By: Get Extensive Tooltips on Media Files with MediaInfo [Featured Windows Download] · TechBlogger http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-65078 Get Extensive Tooltips on Media Files with MediaInfo [Featured Windows Download] · TechBlogger Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:01:55 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-65078 [...] Windows only: Freeware utility MediaInfo adds a wealth of information to the file tooltips—the boxes you see when mousing over a file&mash;for a range of video and audio files. It works similarly to previously mentioned Infotag Magic, and for those working a decent amount with video and audio conversion programs, MediaInfo can help cut back on file confusion and give you a heads-up on a file’s resolution and size. MediaInfo is a free download for Windows XP and earlier only. MediaInfo [via FreewareGenius] [...] [...] Windows only: Freeware utility MediaInfo adds a wealth of information to the file tooltips—the boxes you see when mousing over a file&mash;for a range of video and audio files. It works similarly to previously mentioned Infotag Magic, and for those working a decent amount with video and audio conversion programs, MediaInfo can help cut back on file confusion and give you a heads-up on a file’s resolution and size. MediaInfo is a free download for Windows XP and earlier only. MediaInfo [via FreewareGenius] [...]

]]> By: Antonio http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-65049 Antonio Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:46:25 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-65049 What's REALLY needed!?? A GOOD modern similar Utility that will allow the "attachment" of descriptive .txt files to each and every computer file one wishes to. NOT universally, but just...selectively. To remind (or any number of other uses) the User what that file/image/folder/....is about! There are some "ancient" such utilities (Hob Comment, Explorer Notes,....). But, this is 2008 already!! Any good freeware programmers reading this that want a new Project? Please!!! The world needs a nifty new light-resource-use "tag memo" utility for Explorer items. Tanx. What’s REALLY needed!??

A GOOD modern similar Utility that will allow the “attachment” of descriptive .txt files to each and every computer file one wishes to. NOT universally, but just…selectively. To remind (or any number of other uses) the User what that file/image/folder/….is about!

There are some “ancient” such utilities (Hob Comment, Explorer Notes,….). But, this is 2008 already!! Any good freeware programmers reading this that want a new Project? Please!!!

The world needs a nifty new light-resource-use “tag memo” utility for Explorer items. Tanx.

]]> By: Get Extensive Tooltips on Media Files with MediaInfo [Featured Windows Download] » Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-65047 Get Extensive Tooltips on Media Files with MediaInfo [Featured Windows Download] » Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:39:42 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-65047 [...] Windows only: Freeware utility MediaInfo adds a wealth of information to the file tooltips—the boxes you see when mousing over a file&mash;for a range of video and audio files. It works similarly to previously mentioned Infotag Magic, and for those working a decent amount with video and audio conversion programs, MediaInfo can help cut back on file confusion and give you a heads-up on a file’s resolution and size. MediaInfo is a free download for Windows XP and earlier only. MediaInfo [via FreewareGenius] [...] [...] Windows only: Freeware utility MediaInfo adds a wealth of information to the file tooltips—the boxes you see when mousing over a file&mash;for a range of video and audio files. It works similarly to previously mentioned Infotag Magic, and for those working a decent amount with video and audio conversion programs, MediaInfo can help cut back on file confusion and give you a heads-up on a file’s resolution and size. MediaInfo is a free download for Windows XP and earlier only. MediaInfo [via FreewareGenius] [...]

]]> By: Anton http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-65010 Anton Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:20:56 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-65010 Looks like Filetip v1.4 is not a freeware, it is registerware or smth like that Looks like Filetip v1.4 is not a freeware, it is registerware or smth like that

]]> By: Syahid A. http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-64947 Syahid A. Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:45:34 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-64947 Cool compilation man. I am going to try ThumbView, looks pretty neat. Cool compilation man. I am going to try ThumbView, looks pretty neat.

]]> By: Mario Vera http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-64943 Mario Vera Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:02:17 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-64943 oops sorry... looks like the above link is just for pcmag subscribers... :( oops sorry… looks like the above link is just for pcmag subscribers… :(

]]> By: Mario Vera http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-64942 Mario Vera Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:57:36 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-64942 Filetip v1.4 is here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558562,00.asp Filetip v1.4 is here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558562,00.asp

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-64926 Anonymous Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:51:22 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-64926 http://www.mutschler.de/mp3ext/ MP3Ext adds a shell handler for MP3 files which displays custom icons to show the bitrate of the first frame (I think that's how it choses which icon to use for VBR files.) KMPlayer does something similar when it is the default player but the icon associations aren't (yet) sticky enough to survive registry cleaners. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/property/property.htm?fname= &fsize= TT Font Properties Extension http://www.mutschler.de/mp3ext/ MP3Ext adds a shell handler for MP3 files which displays custom icons to show the bitrate of the first frame (I think that’s how it choses which icon to use for VBR files.)
KMPlayer does something similar when it is the default player but the icon associations aren’t (yet) sticky enough to survive registry cleaners.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/property/property.htm?fname= &fsize= TT Font Properties Extension

]]> By: McD http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/comment-page-1/#comment-64916 McD Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:47:30 +0000 http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/12/five-freeware-programs-to-help-you-find-the-optimal-informational-tooltips-for-most-file-types/#comment-64916 I have been using Audioshell for years, its one of my favorite programs. I use it all the time to edit tags. Another huge benefit is that it can do a batch of files at once. Very handy I have been using Audioshell for years, its one of my favorite programs. I use it all the time to edit tags. Another huge benefit is that it can do a batch of files at once. Very handy

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