Another little Snow Leopard hack has shown up at MacOSXHints that will go well with the eye candy freaks. If you’re ever Quick Look’ed a folder, you know how you wasted a precious keystroke to no use. Luckily there are Quick look plugins that put out a full list of folder contents for your viewing pleasure.

FreakTheClown over at MacOSXHints has found a tasty hack that embeds the content previews inside the folder preview, while animating them (Watch video). To get it working simply open up the Terminal app, and enter:

defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableXRayFolders 1 && killall Dock

Change 1 to 0 if you want to revert back. Now watch as Quick Look generates cute content previews, and animates them if you stick around long enough. At this point of time I’m expecting someone to shout out “Vista had it first!”. Exactly. Vista comes with gimmicky stuff like this enabled by default, for all folders displayed in thumbnail view, and they even advertise it on the package. It’s part of the reason why Vista was such a resource hog, as it brought in gimmicky features to substandard hardware. I know, I had to defend the Mac camp! That said, I didn’t notice any lag on the system overall, and even Quick Look sprung out just as quickly (the previews were inserted in later).

Have a fun weekend (hopefully more than just enabling Xray previews)!

[via MacOSXHints]