Comments on: Xee Review - OS X’s Missing Image Browser

By: BabyGotMac

BabyGotMac — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:20:32 +0000

Nice! It’s always fun to find a new app that’s useful and easy to use. I think we tend to get so used to using certain programs that we don’t realize there are newer and better things available.

By: Nick Young

Nick Young — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:25:45 +0000

Its easy to get into a rut. Its hard to remember to check if there is new more efficient ways to accomplish things. I guess sometimes its easier to keep doing things the same way you’ve always been doing them than learning something new. This is one of my favorite parts about running Keynote 2 Keynote. It keeps me on my toes. I’m always on the lookout for new cool ways to accomplish tasks.

By: NeilKo

NeilKo — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:46:03 +0000

Thanks. FYI, using right click on your mouse, go to your folder with images in it and select all of them. When right click initiates, you will see the opportunity to select “Slideshow,” which then presents a slideshow of the images selected. Very cool and easy to use, at least for a quick review of your images. Preview or Xee may still make sense for other needs.

NeilKo

By: Nick Young

Nick Young — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:34:36 +0000

Nice tip. Another thing you can do with Preview is to hit Apple A while in a folder full of images and then hit Apple O. This will open a folder full of images in Preview putting all of them in the drawer. It works ok. I still like the ease of using Xee though.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:32:07 +0000

This application is really cool, but still… is there an application able to make basic photo fixes and adjustments for Mac OS X?

By: Nick Young

Nick Young — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:07:33 +0000

Try ImageWell. You can crop, compress, rotate, and add simple shadows to your images with it. Thats what I use any time I need to do a quick crop/compress when I don’t want to fire up Photoshop. Its only downside is that you can’t save as a gif :(

By: morganusvitus

morganusvitus — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:00:53 +0000

The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)

By: Mauricio Pastrana

Mauricio Pastrana — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:32:44 +0000

This is very good, a nice improvement (specially as it can see inside compressed folders), but it still doesn’t fix the problem, which is OS X doesn’t make icon previews of image files by default, so when you run into something like DSC000123.JPG (say, from your digital camera), you really don’t know what you’re looking at until you open it (or use column layout)

Here’s a guide to how to turn icon preview on: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2241/os_x_thumbnail_preview

You can then make the icons very large (up to 128×128 in 10.4 and 256×256 in 10.5) and voila! windows-like thumbnail previews. (if only it made images large and ignored the rest).

I have some couple hundreds of photos i organize in a remote wireless media hard drive which is accessed by several pcs, some not necessarily at home, and i keep my own scheme to organize them allby hand, needless to say, it’s a LOT more organized than what iPhoto does (which places them in folders with weird names, hard to follow if youre browsing them from a remote windows/linux machine).

-mp

By: Mauricio Pastrana

Mauricio Pastrana — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:40:30 +0000

UPDATE:
hm alright, so I said: “(if only it made images large and ignored the rest).”

well, it seems like it will be possible soon (Apple Patent: Apple’s Mac OS X may gain multi-sized icon interface / http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2637 )

-mp

By: Nick Young

Nick Young — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:40:56 +0000

Wow Nice Find Mauricio!

Having the icon preview makes things not only easier to find the pic you want, but also makes folders full of image files look cool as well.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:29:10 +0000

hi nice site.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:34:14 +0000

hi all.