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Do you review lots of digital images, either from your camera or another source? Sure, you could use iPhoto, but that's a large app that takes a while to load and can be a bit unwieldy to work with. Thanks to a recent Macworld Mac Gems column by Dan Frakes, I've added another review tool to my toolkit. CocoViewX is a fast, easy to use tool with tons of features. For me, it makes short work of flipping through tons of images (many of which are sent by friends and relatives) and deciding whether or not I want to keep them.

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...
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CocoViewX - A simple image management tool
Authored by: vocaro on Dec 29, '04 11:08:28AM
Haven't tried CocoViewX, but I've been using ViewIt, a similar application, and I like it a lot. It's not free (shareware), but it has some powerful and useful features that make it worth registering IMO, and it's never crashed on me. You can find out more, and get a trial version, here.

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CocoViewX - A simple image management tool
Authored by: Jwink3101 on Dec 29, '04 11:15:50AM

looks cool. It did do an unexpected quit on me in the first five minutes of use but i liek it a lot. It is much faster than the PS CS file browser which is nice. Good pick.

I also like that you can turn off the brushed metal look.



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GraphicConverter - A simple image management tool
Authored by: mclbruce on Dec 29, '04 11:47:38AM

GraphicConverter by Lemkesoft is a fine lightweight graphics tool.

http://www.lemkesoft.de/

I use the slideshow all the time. To delete from an image while running the slide show, you press delete. It has a file browser as well. It's not free but Apple will throw in a copy if you buy a new Power Mac G5.



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FastPic is better
Authored by: gregpare on Dec 29, '04 03:56:19PM
No offense, but I tried CocoViewX and it kept crashing on me, too. I'm in the middle of taking a lot of photos and just got done looking over a bunch of applications for viewing and deleting them. My favorite so far is FastPic.

It's pretty basic, but sometimes simple is best. From the Readme:

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While in 'Show-Mode' you can use the following keys:
- 'x' or 'd' to delete the current file and move to the next file
(Please note: The files are not really deleted, just moved to the trash.)
- 'q' or Cmd-. to stop the show
- Any other key or the mouse button to move to the next picture

You can also click-and-drag to resize the picture, and cmd-click-drag to move it around the screen.
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My only wish is that it had command keys for "view at 100%" and one for "fit to screen," but other than that I highly recommend it.



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CocoViewX - A simple image management tool
Authored by: simonpie on Dec 29, '04 08:42:32PM

I would just like to remind everyone that CocoViewX is still beta (0.6 actually)



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CocoViewX - A simple image management tool
Authored by: Stalkingwolf on Dec 30, '04 01:12:11AM
Hi! thank you for the review on CocoViewX. Just released 0.7 -> CocoViewX Webpage fixed some problems and added some nice features ;-) Regards Sven

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CocoViewX - A simple image management tool
Authored by: BulbVivid on Dec 30, '04 10:15:17AM

Great new version! I sent an e-mail to Rob a week or so ago about CocoViewX—glad to see he chose it for PotW.

The new version's noticeably faster when scrolling through pics. Good stuff. Thanks for the app. . . .

Jason



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CocoViewX - A simple image management tool
Authored by: Faust on Dec 30, '04 06:26:23AM

Your hint is all right - but I still prefer JView. Just for one reason: I start the viewer by doubleclicking on one picture - and then the right and left arrow buttons lead me throught the whole folder. No need to think in advance which and how many pictures in that folder I want to review. Of course deleting is easily done by cmd-d. :-) Dirk



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CocoViewX - A simple image management tool
Authored by: Stalkingwolf on Dec 30, '04 05:04:49PM

Me again, i know i'm the developer and i'm not very objective in that matter. But CocoViewX is completely different to ViewIt and JView.
I switched several years ago and really missed Windows ACDSee ( the mac port ist awful) and so i created CocoViewX.
I've tested so many image viewer and no one had an file browsing table.
I don't like apps like LARAVIEW, JView or FreeSee.
ViewIT and XSee are nice applications, but not freeeware.
and still remember ... 0.7. There will be three big update to 1.0 and a lot of features will be included.

Regards
Sven



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CocoViewX - A simple image management tool
Authored by: osxpounder on Dec 31, '04 03:50:37AM

Sven, you're my new Apple hero. Bless you. Thanks so much for this app. Finally, I feel like someone "gets it" and you seem to have got it right with this one. I'm wondering if you knew of Irfanview, my favorite image viewing app for PCs. I've been missing that since becoming an Apple fan. I'm looking forward to your next version of CocoViewX.

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CocoViewX - A simple image management tool
Authored by: paulsrandall on Jan 03, '05 02:01:49PM

Give JBrowser a try. It is free, runs great on Panther 10.3.7 and browses lots of images in a short period of time. I've used it for a long time. The developer's name is Allan Liu at http://home.nc.rr.com/jview/jbrowser.html. His other application is JView which is a multi-format image viewer.



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