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Xee

Xee - 2.0

image viewer/browser

All Time: (4.4)
This Version: (5.0)
Current Version: 2.0
Release Date: 2007-01-29
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 16,761
Downloads (all versions): 35,706

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Product Description:

Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface.

Xee is useful as a more powerful replacement for Preview, or most any other image viewer available on Mac OS X. It is very fast, and uses less memory than most other image viewing tools. It also uses OpenGL to display and scroll images much more smoothly than other viewers. Its interface is highly streamlined and has easily configurable keyboard shortcuts.

Xee can:

  • Display a large number of image formats - any format QuickTime or Preview can open, plus several more, including PCX, Maya IFF and Amiga IFF-ILBM.
  • Easy browse through folders of images - open any file in a folder and use the toolbar, keyboard shortcuts or mouse wheel to view the other images in the same folder.
  • Browse image inside archives, if The Unarchiver is installed. It can read almost every format The Unarchiver can, which include Zip, Rar, 7-Zip, Lzh and StuffIt. It also supports the CBZ and CBR formats, which are just renamed Zip and Rar files, respectively.
  • Losslessy rotate and crop JPEG images. This lets you edit your digital photographs without losing quality by re-compressing them like most other editors do.
  • Effortlessly copy, move, rename and delete of images while viewing.
  • View more EXIF data for JPEG files than Preview.
  • View images in full-screen.

What's new in this version:

  • Finally a universal binary!
  • However, Xee now requires Mac OS X 10.4. Users of 10.3 can still use Xee 1.2.1 (http://wakaba.c3.cx/releases/mac/old/Xee1.2.1.zip).
  • Smoother display of scaled-down images, using the graphics hardware.
  • Support for EXIF data.
  • Rotation and cropping for all image types, with lossless saving for JPEGs, even when cropped. However, JPEGs are no longer automatically saved when rotating - use the menu option or Command-S to save.
  • Tracks changes to the filesystem and updates file lists accordingly.
  • Can sort images by name, date or size, and sorts in the same order as the Finder by default.
  • Slideshow support.
  • Support for Maya IFF images.
  • Many interface tweaks.
  • Massive internal rewrites, fixing lots of bugs, and hopefully not introducing too many new ones.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

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This Version:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (5.0) Support: (5.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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Xee ReviewFast, fast, fast... for one specific function - Version: 2.0, 7/26/2007 11:07PM PST

scarhead_1
Pros: This is the fastest slideshow by far! Browsing and showing off hundreds of images is fast and easy. For people who don't like to wait while the computer pulls up, decodes, and displays the next image (especially for 12 megapixel files from Canon EOS 5D), this is the program we've been looking for. I don't know how Xee displays so fast, but I don't really care. The image displayed is high-quality so I don't see any speed/quality tradeoffs.

Cons: it only does slideshows. Ok, this is not even really a con. Just don't expect it to do anything else, and you'll be very happy. I use the Finder to display the thumbnails and Xee picks up the slideshow from the file dropped on it. If an entire folder is dropped on it, Xee starts from the beginning.

Bonus pro: author made is freeware. This is the kind of work I want to donate for. Since we are not coerced into paying for it, I'm extremely glad to send some $$$ the author's way.
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Xee ReviewFast, fast, fast... for one specific function - Version: 2.0, 7/26/2007 11:07PM PST

scarhead_1
Pros: This is the fastest slideshow by far! Browsing and showing off hundreds of images is fast and easy. For people who don't like to wait while the computer pulls up, decodes, and displays the next image (especially for 12 megapixel files from Canon EOS 5D), this is the program we've been looking for. I don't know how Xee displays so fast, but I don't really care. The image displayed is high-quality so I don't see any speed/quality tradeoffs.

Cons: it only does slideshows. Ok, this is not even really a con. Just don't expect it to do anything else, and you'll be very happy. I use the Finder to display the thumbnails and Xee picks up the slideshow from the file dropped on it. If an entire folder is dropped on it, Xee starts from the beginning.

Bonus pro: author made is freeware. This is the kind of work I want to donate for. Since we are not coerced into paying for it, I'm extremely glad to send some $$$ the author's way.
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Xee ReviewGreat! - Version: 2.0, 3/22/2007 02:39PM PST

emillan
This is an excellent replacement for Preview. I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. Thanks!
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