Xee supports all image formats and you can configure which ones it opens up from the preferences menu. Similarly, the program lets you set all sorts of keyboard shortcuts, ideal for such a straightforward application. The only little nag we have with Xee is that some of the top bar functions are hidden the first time you start it up. Make sure you drag the program window, to reveal all of the tools.

Xee is a nifty tool for quickly previewing any image.

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You'll find it offers what you expect of a digital photo organizer, such as being able to save your photos in albums and show them in calendar view, adding tags, easy transferring from your camera and sharing them with others via email or burning on a CD. You can also create a little slideshow to view albums in full screen.

I did find the application a little counterintuitive, partly due to the color of the interface, which makes it difficult to set buttons apart. A simple action like adding an album, wasn't as easy as it should be.

Although limited, the range of editing tools available was OK. You can enhance your picture, set the balance and add a few effects to make a little snazzier. Both the tips and online guide provided by Kodak are thorough.

You can use Kodak Easyshare without actually having a Kodak account, however you'll find many places in the application where it encourages you to do so. Your use of the application will also obviously be limited if you don't have one as you won't be able to print photos or create projects.

Kodak Easyshare is a digital photo manager that gives access to Kodak services online. Despite its counter-intuitive interface, it boasts sturdy editing tools and lots of help for beginners.

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The interface is simple enough so that you make the most of your comics. You can rotate sets any which way you want and even alternate reading order from right to left, highly useful if you want to read a manga for example.

Jomic includes a useful zoom tool, with which you'll be able to zoom in on any point of a comic, and enjoy details or examine drawings more closely.
You can also extract comics which you can particularly like and save them onto your Mac, however Jomic won't tell you where it extracts to. It should normally be on the Desktop though.

Jomic is an excellent comic book viewer for Mac, which supports lots of image formats, has a good zoom tool and can rotate comics in any way.

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XnView supports an amazing 400 different formats, meaning you need look no further if you've been unable to open an image in a particular format. Before you start however, note that XnView is based on the X11 platform which is basically a version of the X Window System that makes it possible to run X11-based applications in Mac OS X. Although using an application in X11 feels like going back 10 years, it does have some advantages not least that it's completely open source and therefore free to use.

You can open just about any format so that's XnView's major advantage. Beyond that though, it's hard to recommend it as a photo editing and viewing application. It takes a few seconds to process each image before it displays them and even a simple JPEG seemed to display in a very discoloured way. There are several filters you can isolate certain colors but I just couldn't get over the antiquated X11 platform to really appreciate it.

If you really can't open your image in any other application, XnView may be able to help but that's about it.

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All you need to do is select the photos you want to share and click on 'Export' in your iPhoto menu. In the Facebook Exporter window you'll first have to log in to your Facebook account, then select whether to create a new album or add the photos to an existing one.

What I liked in Facebook Exporter is that you can easily add captions to your pictures and tag friends. To do this just move the little square onto a person in the photo and type in their name.

Once your pictures are ready all it takes is to press the 'Export' button. You'll still have to open up your Facebook account though as the uploaded photos will only be set as pending, until you approve of them in your account. A good way of ensuring the right photos are uploading yet it makes the processing a little longer.

Facebook Exporter for iPhoto makes it easy to upload your favorite pictures onto your Facebook account.

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iPhoto Buddy allows you to do exactly this so that you can create, manage, and switch between multiple iPhoto Libraries with ease. For very large collections, you should notice a distinct improvement in the speed of iPhoto, increased flexibility in organizing your photos and a general overall improvement in how you're able to manage photos. However, it has to be noted that more recent versions of iPhoto have made many of the functions available in iPhoto Buddy redundant because simply by holding down the Option key when starting iPhoto, you can open collections in new libraries.

However, that's not to say that iPhoto Buddy has nothing more to offer. For instance, iPhoto Buddy displays several details about your Libraries without having to even launch iPhoto. This includes things such as the image count as well as the Albums, Smart Albums, Folders etc contained within them. The interface of iPhoto Buddy has clearly been inspired by iPhoto and is a pleasure to use throughout. The help manual is also highly detailed and covers just about any problem you might come across.

However, the improvements to be enjoyed from iPhoto Buddy will probably only be appreciated by those on slower Macs. I found little difference whether operating with one whole library or several different ones divided by iPhoto Buddy and indeed, found it even a little more confusing at times.

That said, there can be no doubt that for those on slower Macs or those that don't want to upgrade to newer versions of iPhoto, iPhoto Buddy will surely make managing your albums a lot quicker and easier.

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JetPhoto Studio doesn't really compare with the big boys but it does offer a greater degree of control and processing power over your images in certain areas. JetPhoto Studio will import pictures from your camera as soon as you connect it. Alternatively, you can browse to albums on your Mac or allow JetPhotoStudio to perform a full scan of your system.

The main interface is well presented and allows you to browse photos by date. There is a set of basic editing tools which allows you to crop images and add a few effects such as sepia, black and white, image contrast, and auto enhancing. You can also batch resize your photos and protect them with a watermark. JetPhoto Studio also enables you to rate your own photos via a star system, as well as tag them. However, tags are not transferable from one album to another and you have to create a new one every new album you create.

One of the better aspects of JetPhoto Studio is the ability to create screensavers, wallpapers, slide-shows and Flash movies from your collections. Unfortunately, however, there ¡s very little control over the types of animations and speed of the transitions. Finally, it's worth adding that you send JetPhoto Studio images via SMS or infrared, to your friends’ mobiles, although this only works within the US. The developer has also recently added geo-tagging for GPS recognition in Google Earth. The best way to share your photos in online though and JetPhoto Studio makes this relatively easy via Flickr or the JetPhoto server.

Jet Photo Studio is a comprehensive photo management tool that's a bit bloated in areas but offers some interesting features.

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Despite only being only version 0.8, Comical is stable and effective. It is compatible with ZIP and RAR compressed files, and the more common CBR and CBZ comic book compressed formats. Once installed, Comical will ask to open a file, and double clicking your choice will open your comic in the resizable Comical window.

You can choose how Comical resizes your comic images as you resize the window - whether you want them to be stretched to fit, or keep their aspect ratio. You can also view in full screen, and toggle a contents panel on and off. While the contents panel is useful for finding your page, as there's no bookmark feature, reading is much more comfortable with it turned off.

There's a control bar, which allows you to rotate pages, and move between chapters and pages. This can also be reached with a right mouse click. The simplest way to flick through your comics is just using the space bar, which imitates page turning. Comical is quick to load pages and you won't notice loading at all when reading normally. The only things missing in Comical are a simple zoom feature, and a library. An iTunes style comic library would have really completed Comical.

Despite minor drawbacks, Comical is a stable, and more importantly fast comic book reader.

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If uploading and image editing is not your thing then try Phoenix Slides, which is a lightweight, fast full-screen image browser allowing you to display lossless JPEG transformations and accompanying EXIF data.

The beauty of Phoenix Slides lies in its simplicity. You browse images using a tree viewer and can use the keyboard to navigate through the thumbnails, making it ideal for those that struggle with bloated photo apps.

If you want to view photos in full-screen mode no problem - just click once to expand the image to it's full size. Alternatively, you can take a selection of images to view as a slide show. There are no editing options in Phoenix Slides but there is a slider at the bottom that magnifies and reduces the size of the thumbnails accordingly. You can also rotate images 360 degrees if needed.

There is nothing outstanding about Phoenix Slides other than its impressive speed - images are loaded in seconds and compiling slideshows is a breeze.

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