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After my girlfriend upgraded to Safari 3.1 via Apple’s Software Update utility, none of the apps which use the WebKit Framework worked and kept crashing (Safari, iChat, Skype, etc.).
The really bad thing was that also the Software Update and the Application Installer itself didn’t start up after the update. So no chance to reinstall the update with a GUI.

For the case you ran into the same troubles, here is how we fixed it:

• Download the Safari update from http://apple.com/safari (hopefully you have a non Webkit Browser installed like Camino or Firefox, or get the update somehow else)
• Open the downloaded .dmg file
• Put the .pkg-file which is contained in the .dmg-file somewhere where you can find it later (e.g your home directory)
• Start up the Terminal application
• Enter this command sudo installer -pkg <path-to-pkg-file> -target LocalSystem (replace <path-to-pkg-file> with the actual path to .pkg-file)
• It will ask for your password. Type it in and press enter
• Restart your computer when asked to do so

With the release of Leopard, one of the features I really was looking forward to was QuickLook.

I was a bit disappointed, when I read in the documentation (login required), that Apple only provides an API to write generators, which produce previews and thumbnails for QuickLook, but they don’t provide an API to actually use QuickLook in 3rd party applications.

A note in the docs just says: “… private programmatic interfaces available to internal clients of Quick Look might one day be made available for third-party development (as API) in a future version of the Quick Looks framework.”

In particular, I was interested in getting plain images (PNG or JPEG) of QuickLook generated previews.
So if anybody knows a way to get those images, please let me know. :)