[TheForge] OT Question on Photo-Display Software

[craig.schaefer at verizon.net]

I have XP crashes all the time.  I just attribute it to the people who write the software running on XP.   XP runs fine by itself.
Wait, I'm running off-topic.



>From: Darrell <darrell67 at machinemaster.com>
>Date: 2006/08/07 Mon PM 02:55:24 CDT
>To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT Question on Photo-Display Software

>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
>
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>From: "Ries Niemi" <rniemi at fidalgo.net>
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>Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 10:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT Question on Photo-Display Software
>
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>> 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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