I am quite sure that you already noticed the small yellow tooltips that pop up when you hover your mouse pointer over a hyperlink. That's nothing new - but did you know that same thing happens in your Windows™ Explorer™ ?

Word™ and Excel™ files are handled very nicely: you see author, title ... just like on this screenshot I made using the German Windows™ 2000:


Unfortunately, Microsoft™ doesn't code this handy feature for the most common multimedia file formats such as Gif, Jpeg ... but I did !
MaxTip is able to recognise many, many file formats and best of all: it's free !


Due to Window's™ re-use of its Explorer™ within many dialogs you are able to see MaxTip in action even by opening a file:


At the moment MaxTip's development goes on and on - therefore it's features will become more and more:

supported file formats:	MP3, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, AVI, PDF, PostScript
coming next:	PNG, PCX, EXE, HTML, ZIP, ...
requirements:	Active Desktop (part of Internet Explorer 4.0 and newer)
easy-to-use installer:	yes ! (see here)

Further details can be found in the FAQ.