love that the author still uses the same dithered photos of Jajce, Bosnia - his hometown - as in Win9x days in the about page and website: https://www.irfanview.com/main_about.htm .. make me want to visit.
Edit: typo (thanks)
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Re: IrfanView
#102I've been using IrfanView since at least 1997, if not earlier in 1996. I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories. It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives. To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and…
How do you get it on macOS?
Re: IrfanView
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
"...and people now have most of their pics in the cloud or on their phone," ...until Google closes their account or their data becomes otherwise inaccessible! It horrifies me that so many people are so willing to commit their valuable data to the cloud just because of convenience. Leaving aside Big Tech's spying on users and selling away their privacy, users who commit data to the cloud put its integrity and ultimate…
Because the chances of Google closing accounts or losing data is much lower than a consumer's usb drive being damaged or lost.
…that wasn’t the point? Keeping possessions safe is the responsibility of the possessor. If you keep them all in one place with no backups, you can lose them more easily.
And by the way, you don’t actually know the probability of a random person losing access to a Google account vs losing physical mediums, let alone how many of those cases were cases where their only photos were stored there. It’s obviously different from person to person, and maybe you can estimate that one is safer than the other in individual cases, but you can’t extrapolate that and say it applies in every person’s case. But the GP was referring to cases where it was implied the only copy was stored on the cloud.
Re: IrfanView
#104Re: IrfanView
#105love that the author still uses the same dithered photos of Jajce, Bosnia - his hometown - as in Win9x days in the about page and website: https://www.irfanview.com/main_about.htm .. make me want to visit. Edit: typo (thanks)
Jajce, not Jacje. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jajce
Re: IrfanView
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
"...and people now have most of their pics in the cloud or on their phone," ...until Google closes their account or their data becomes otherwise inaccessible! It horrifies me that so many people are so willing to commit their valuable data to the cloud just because of convenience. Leaving aside Big Tech's spying on users and selling away their privacy, users who commit data to the cloud put its integrity and ultimate…
Because the chances of Google closing accounts or losing data is much lower than a consumer's usb drive being damaged or lost.
Plus, it is convenient to sync photos directly from mobile to the cloud without the need to set up syncing software or do periodic transfer/backup from mobile to PC.
Re: IrfanView
#107Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IrfanView Does anyone know what programming language it is made with? I did a cursory search but cannot find any information. Just curious.
I don't know for sure, but C++ is always a good guess with that kind of software.
I downloaded IrfanView and ran "strings" on the exe file, and one of the strings in there is "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" - so that would point towards C++ (although it's not certain from that alone).
Re: IrfanView
#108Maybe I’ll get some hate for this, but years ago when I worked at a civil engineering firm this was the default image viewer IT had mapped every image file to open with - it was a nightmare! Every coworker I had (myself included) would constantly complain about the number of times they had to change to [literally anything else]. There were three distinct things I remember we all hated: 1. The image never opened full size, the window was always small and you had to manually drag the window frame to make it viewable. 2. It didn’t “zoom in” when you used your mouse wheel correctly, it would instead cycle through all of the images open in the folder you were working in. 3. When you clicked the arrows at the top to flip through a group of photos in the folder you were in (I recall the keyboard arrow keys not working for this, too), once you reached the end it would go to a black “fake” image, that you then couldn’t arrow back. It didn’t just cycle through the images, you had to close the window and reopen the image you were on.
Needless to say, I have zero fond memories of this program. Maybe these were nuances of our particular setup (many other such cases at that firm, sadly), but…eh, whatever. There’s better out there.
Re: IrfanView
#109Maybe I’ll get some hate for this, but years ago when I worked at a civil engineering firm this was the default image viewer IT had mapped every image file to open with - it was a nightmare! Every coworker I had (myself included) would constantly complain about the number of times they had to change to [literally anything else]. There were three distinct things I remember we all hated: 1. The image never opened full…
Those are all settings you could have changed yourself. IrfanView is the best image viewer on Windows, hands down.
Re: IrfanView
#110Maybe I’ll get some hate for this, but years ago when I worked at a civil engineering firm this was the default image viewer IT had mapped every image file to open with - it was a nightmare! Every coworker I had (myself included) would constantly complain about the number of times they had to change to [literally anything else]. There were three distinct things I remember we all hated: 1. The image never opened full…
Those are all settings you could have changed yourself. IrfanView is the best image viewer on Windows, hands down.
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