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freewaregenius.com - Five freeware programs to help you find the optimal informational tooltips for most file types

"Description: this posting will present an overview of a number of freeware options that can add informational tooltips to various file types. Informational tooltips are those informational windows that appear when you hover the mouse over various files. Five programs are presented here including Infotag Magic, Filetip, Thumbview, MediaCoder, and Audioshell.

Shortly after publishing my Infotag Magic review (a program which introduces informational tooltips for a variety of file types including audio files, text files, and executables), I received an email from a reader asking about the possibility of adding tooltips to images and video files that displayed the image resolution for these. I therefore did a bit of research about the various freeware options for installing tooltips for a range of filetypes, and this is a summary of what I found. Note that the first thing that you should do before installing anything is check if the filetypes you are interested in already have adequate tooltips, as many media players and image viewers introduce this functionality.

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If you're interested in extended tooltips for many media/image/file formats then you should check out this FreewareGenius review...