Q: Which software is required to use MaxTip ?
A: MaxTip relies on ActiveDesktop - a feature introduced by Internet Explorer 4.0. You do not need to use Internet Explorer as your default browser. Usually, Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and .NET satisfy all requirements.
The MaxTipInstaller is based on the Microsoft Installer service that is part of Windows ME, XP, 2000 and .NET. Windows 9x/NT4 user can download the Microsoft Installer runtime for free. All files are linked in the download area.

Q: What kind of files are supported by MaxTip ?
A: MaxTip 0.80 is able to recognise MP3, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, AVI, PDF and PostScript. I plan to add support for PNG, PCX, EXE, HTML, ZIP, ... stay tuned !

Q: Which information is extracted from the files ?
A: By default MaxTip retrieves the file size and the associated file type. A complete overview is shown below:

file format	title	author	duration	album	track/pages	image size	quality	comment	copyright	application	genre
MP3	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes		yes	yes	yes		yes
JPEG	yes	yes				yes	yes	yes	yes
GIF	yes	yes				yes	yes	yes	yes
BMP						yes	yes
TIFF						yes	yes
AVI	yes	yes	yes			yes	yes	yes	yes
PDF	yes	yes								yes
Postscript	yes	yes			yes

Note: Not every file contains all the information that MaxTip is able to extract. Sometimes the comment field is used to store the application's name.