Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Weekly Review: IrfanView Freeware

Whenever I am given a new computer, there's a few things I always do. I turn up the mouse speed and off that annoying auto-hide taskbar. I check to see what manufacturer-installed bloatware I can uninstall. I delete those annoying manufacturer-installed shortcuts on the desktop. I create a new folder entitled C:\Downloads to store all my Internet DLs. And I install IrfanView, graphics viewing program of the gods.

I was never really happy with my image viewing programs before I found IrfanView. They tended to take a while to load, consume a fair amount of disk space, only support a limited number files, and most of them were shareware so they would perpetually pester me to purchase them. Enter IrfanView. IrfanView is fast. In short, it is exactly everything that all those whiny freeware and bloatware Windows apps should be doing (IMHO). I cannot recommend it highly enough.

In game-theory related news: I've been meaning to get back on track to my original subject, but it's been tough. I was having trouble seeing how to expound on my last topic, and I had a second topic but I wasn't quite sure how to implement it. Luckily, though, I've thought of a third topic that I think will give some options to both the other two topics (as well as be interesting in and of itself). Stay tuned!

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