[TheForge] OT Question on Photo-Display Software

[Darrell]

Come on Ries, get up to date. I haven't had a windows crash since I upgraded 
to XP. I am not a Bill Gates fan. In fact I think he did more to set 
computing back than anyone else. The reason that Mac now runs Windows is 
because they finally figured out that they could no longer compete.

Darrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ries Niemi" <rniemi at fidalgo.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT Question on Photo-Display Software


> Get a Mac Mini
> 500 bucks, comes with free I-photo, which has an automatic slide page 
> format of thumbnails.
> As a bonus, you use it for all your websurfing- no viruses, no trojans, no 
> worms, no software or firewall updates- no worries.
> It will run Windows as well, so you can still use all your old programs- 
> just like a PC, only it wont crash, and it wont give you the blue screen 
> of death, or tell you you have been doing "illegal operations".
>
> ries
>
> On Aug 7, 2006, at 5:35 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
>
>> Somehow I've managed to get stuck with writing up my second article in a
>> couple months on a blacksmithing-related event.  The writing is no
>> problem. But it seems there's always someone around with a digital
>> camera snapping pictures.  I used to be able to handle pictures, but now
>> the damned things are about 2 MB apiece! and It is not only exceedingly
>> slow to load each one (5-10  sec each, maybe) but I can't display more
>> than a few at a time.  What this means is that I can't "riffle through
>> the stack" of photos and pick out those I want to use.  This may sound
>> trivial, but it's a real headache.
>>
>> I think the best "fix" would be some software that would pick up a
>> directory of photos (.jpg) and reduce each one to no more than web-page
>> quality.  (I don't NEED to see the reflection of the photographer off my
>> bald head!)  Once this small, software I have would handle a lot of
>> them, pretty easily.
>>
>> I could make this conversion one-by-one.  What I was wondering is
>> whether there's any software that could do it automatically?  Or,
>> perhaps, there's a better way that I haven't thougth about.  Suggestions
>> welcome.
>>
>> As it stands, I'm likely to submit an article completely without photos
>> because my life is too short to deal with the frustration of handling
>> these enormous photos.
>>
>> Bruce
>> NJ
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