The macosxhints Rating:
[Score: 8 out of 10]
- Developer: Sven Janssen / [Product Page]
- Price: Free
Among the features you'll find in CocoViewX are a file exporter with image type and size conversions, quick export that lets you export the next image with the same settings as the last (for making quick thumbnails for a website, for instance), file management options (move, copy, rename, delete, etc.), and a wonderful keyboard-driven slideshow program (space to start the show, l and r to rotate an image, and any number of ways to move from one image to the next). There's also a "dropbox," which is actually a drawer where you can save often-viewed images, and menu options for setting an image as your desktop picture, mailing an image, or opening an image in Preview.
I typically use CocoViewX by dropping a folder of images onto its icon, and then just reviewing them in its default browser window. When I see an image I don't want, I hit Command-Delete and it's moved into the trash. In this way, I can work through a large number of images in a hurry.
I didn't give CocoViewX a 10 for a couple reasons. First, it's quit unexpectedly on me once or twice, which is a bit disconcerting. Second, if you're using the browser view and you rotate an image a number of times, it becomes temporarily blurry -- this goes away when you click off the image and back on it, but it's still a bit annoying. And finally, I'd love to be able to "mark for deletion" while using the full-screen slideshow mode in addition to the browse mode. But for a freeware app, CocoViewX is very feature-laden and makes a lot of image management tasks much easier...

