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IrfanView
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Re: IrfanView
#162IrfanView is one of my "must to have apps", going back to Win 98. For simple image editing (resizing, cropping etc) and batch processing, it's though to beat. Now I mostly work on macOS, and miss it. I guess XnView is close enough.
I love(d) infan view, but just got used to (a portable version of) Xnview. I keep going back to irfan, but again - as much as it is an amazing piece of software, Xn for me.
Re: IrfanView
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the OP but I use a subset of the software available on https://ninite.com/ (IrfanView included)
Used to use that as well, but the selection was too limited for me, so I first switched to chocolatey, and nowadays, winget. This way I can install almost everything I want with one command. I'll post my list tomorrow when I'm back on my PC.
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Re: IrfanView
#165IrfanView is great, but I'm curious, why is it on top of HN today of all days? Was there something significant happening?
It happens every now and then. Could be as simple as nostalgia.
Re: IrfanView
#166Have used it since forever. Just used it today an hour ago. Usually to paste a windows screenshot and then do minor editing or cropping.
Now windows has gotten a lot better, with the [WIN][Shift][s] shortcut (so cropping no longer is necessary). But that still misses a feature to quickly draw an arrow.
Irfanview has that. Screenshot, crop, F12, put an arrow to point at something, copy, paste into Teams.
So fast...
Re: IrfanView
#167IrfanView. Now, that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. Haven’t used that the last couple of decades. Interesting to see that it’s still around.
Re: IrfanView
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"...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…
> It horrifies me that so many people are so willing to commit their valuable data to the cloud just because of convenience. I used to get horrified too until I learned that average user doesn't care much about losing pictures. My wife has lost phone full of pics multiple times and she's upset for like few hours.
You don't know what you've lost until it's something you want to re-live or remember.
I go back through photos and videos of my kids and it reminds me that I succeeded at something worthwhile and difficult for at least a period of my life. They had a blessed childhood.
Food or selfies and even holiday snaps mean little. But the kids... that's the raison d'être.
Overall it's these photos and videos that are my strongest motivation for the paranoia-level backup setup I have.
Re: IrfanView
#169I'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…
Is there a Mac version or do you run it on Mac under Wine/Crossover?
Re: IrfanView
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"...via browser these days." 'Most people' = LCD/lowest common denominator. If one doesn't mind grovelling around at the bottom then that's fine.
This seems unnecessarily harsh.
It may be, but by whose or what standard?
We are now in an age where expected norms in society are such that the slightest criticism of anyone—even if justified—is taken as offensive by both the recipient and by onlookers.
Unfortunately, keeping mum and not saying anything just lets people off the hook, they no longer have to justify their actions either to themselves or anyone else. In fact, I'd argue that in recent years the trend has gotten so bad and out of hand that it's having a very noticeable negative impact on society.
Clearly, I'm older than you, when I was younger this comment would have hardly raised an eyebrow (right, I'm old enough to have noticed this societal change and the negative impact it's had).
When I was at school we were actively taught to ignore unwarranted critism, and even if it were justified to consider carefully what was actually said before responding. In fact, the old adage that 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was drummed into us kids at a very early age (in infants school). Can you imagin teachers teaching that today? I'd reckon they'd likely be lynched.
Now, what's the situation nowadays when kids are no longer taught how to develop and strengthen their resilience? Well, one only has to look at the fallout on social media. Now we have kids taking such great offense at something someone has said to them and they're getting upset to such an extent that some even resort to suicide. (When I was a kid suicide was something that only adults with disturbed minds did—never kids or teenagers, it was unheard of. No doubt there were isolated instances but we kids never heard of them.)