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Re: IrfanView

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Post by reddit_clone » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 9:30 PM UTC

The _only_ application I still miss years after moving to Mac osx.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by BuildTheRobots » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 10:41 PM UTC

jjbinx007 wrote: post #246

albert_e wrote: post #243

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adding mine TreeSize (to easily find out what is consuming disk space) picpick/ shareX (screenshotting with annotationsand autosave) pdftk (pdf merge, split, crop, interleave( ffmpeg (video trim, split, re-encode, etc.) Lossless cut (GUI for ffmpeg trim and extract/add tracks) OpenShot video editor (when DaVinci Resolve is too much for the job and you need simple edits and effects) OBS Studio (screen record, stream t…

Wiztree is a good alternative to Tree size, it's almost instantaneous

Not sure why you're being downvoted.

WinDirStat (which used to be my goto) took over 6 minutes and ate 625mb of ram.

TreeSize Free took over 30 seconds, I'm not sure how much ram as it doesn't report it. It also kept trying to upsell me.

WizTree took less than 8 seconds. What's wrong with it?

edit: 2tb nvme ssd, mostly full of rubbish, windows 10.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by AceyMan » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 10:46 PM UTC

denzil wrote: post #230

nrdvana wrote: post #220

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Not using windows much anymore, but great to hear about O&O and ExplorerPatcher. I notice you don't list an ssh client. I still install cygwin for that. Anything new besides putty?

Windows now have OpenSSH client (and server) available as optional features. Together with the new terminal the ssh client seems to be working fine. Personally I usually opt in to use the ssh in WSL as I keep it installed on all my Windows machines.

True, right up until you need to use something that must check the SSH_AUTH_SOCK envar and then it's game over man (c.f., Chef Workstation).

Re: IrfanView

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Post by 6510 » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 12:12 AM UTC

onehair wrote: post #206

nolok wrote: post #120

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You want to open a picture, FAST, no matter the format or resolution ? You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ? You want to batch process a folder to convert all files to png with the larger side limited to 2000px, keep the location data but reset the orientation data, and r…

I use sumatra for how lightweight and fast it is. 7zip is just uncontested. I wish Ditto had copycats on linux and macos. It's just sublime. I've never used irfanview though, I'm too quick to judge from the UI of an app xD I see all those buttons on IrfanView and how it opens as an explorer of pictures rather than just a simple Photo Viewer with arrows to go back and forth and closed it. qView is my fav right now. It…

The laboratory dialogs are worth seeing.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by ukuina » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 12:40 AM UTC

Pigalowda wrote: post #13

respondo2134 wrote: post #5

irfanview for images, vlc for videos, foobar for audio - so much better than anything bundled with windows since forever

And greenshot for snipping!

Careful, Greenshot phones home. Verified with a firewall restriction.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by airstrike » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 1:04 AM UTC

Etherlord87 wrote: post #305

_wqdq wrote: post #110

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Expressing a viewpoint necessitates a downvote?

on HN only few people can downvote, I wonder why, in order to make sure down votes are justified? If so, that fails miserably :D

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...

Re: IrfanView

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Post by mrWiz » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 1:33 AM UTC

DragonMaus wrote: post #293

mrWiz wrote: post #185

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I recently started having trouble with 7zip at work due to shared sharepoint folders and the like. I wound up finding ZanaZip which was forked from 7zip but keeps up with modern OS changes.

Do you mean NanaZip?

Yes, I meant NanaZip. Thanks for the correction!

Re: IrfanView

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Post by rasz » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 2:18 AM UTC

nolok wrote: post #173

cellularmitosis wrote: post #85

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As an only occasional windows user, I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing such a list, maybe in a GitHub gist if you find yourself bored one day :)

Each their own, that's mine. Note that this is not a tech user or developper list, but the list of what I install on any new windows pc, including those at work etc ... 7zip (open any archive) VLC (open any audio/video file) IrfanView (+ the "all plugins" installer on the same page, open any picture file) SumatraPDF (read PDFs) Libreoffice (to open any office files) NAPS2 (easy scan, and split/merge/... PDFs) Ditto (…

+Autohotkey

>VLC (open any audio/video file)

SMPlayer using mpv on the backend

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Thorham » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 2:32 AM UTC

stevesimmons wrote: post #171

vitro wrote: post #49

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I told my friend once: - "I have 8MB of RAM" - "That's cool, imagine having 16..."

My first computer had 3583 bytes of RAM...

Must be a VIC20.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by idiocrat » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 4:19 AM UTC

akoboldfrying wrote: post #254

nolok wrote: post #120

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You want to open a picture, FAST, no matter the format or resolution ? You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ? You want to batch process a folder to convert all files to png with the larger side limited to 2000px, keep the location data but reset the orientation data, and r…

Everything is the best program I have ever used. I couldn't live without it at this point. It would be like cutting off both arms.

Chipping in dnGrep.

Allows to grep inside XLSX and Word files.

http://dngrep.github.io/