SimpleView - A simple and easy to use slideshow viewer
Sep 22, '03 10:45:00AM
Contributed by: robg
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[Score: 10 out of 10]
After a few weeks off again (it's amazing what moving two offices into one new one will do to one's schedule), the Pick of the Week returns with a nice, simple application.
This weekend, I wanted a simple slideshow viewer to look at the amazing pictures of the G5 supercomputer cluster at Virginia Tech University. I had dowloaded all of the images from the above mirror site via the brute force method (wget -r http://tartarus.uwa.edu.au/~trs80/Terascale/), and was left with a number of sub-directories, each containing a number of images. While I have several "large" apps that will present slideshows with relative ease (and Preview would work, but it re-orders the images in some seemingly random fashion), I decided to look for a small and "easy on the RAM" tool to do the same thing.
After trying a few from the various Mac download sites, I stubmled on SimpleView. This freeware app has no dock icon, no user interface, and no menubar. You just drag and drop a collection of images on it, and they're presented in a full-screen viewer, one at a time. There are a few controls - previous, next, rotate left/right, delete, show info, enlarge, and you can hit F10 to change the background color and other assorted options. When you're done viewing, just hit Escape and you're back to the desktop.
That's it ... SimpleView is very fast, very easy to use, and perfect for those times when I just want to flip through a folder of images in a hurry.
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