Things that Mac OS X is missing

March 15, 2007 • 11:38 am

MS Paint — sometimes I just want to make a crappy drawing with a crappy image editor. MS Paint is to Photoshop what Notepad is to Word.
XP’s photo viewing software. Under XP you can open one image file and then view all the images in the same folder with the next and previous buttons. You can view photos fullscreen and as a slideshow. Mac’s only solution to this is to either open all the images in Preview, but then you can’t see them fullscreen, or to use iPhoto, the clumsiest most overblown piece of software I’ve ever used. It takes ages to start up, and for that reason alone is useless. I want to vew photos immediately, not a couple of minutes from now. And I’ll thank you not to organise my photo files behind my back!

4 Comments

Mr Manners wrote:

Hey mate

i too sometimes want to make a crappy drawing and last year i went one step on from that and created a crappy drawing package lol it may work on a mac I’m not too sure lol does you mac have a Java enviournment???

Mr Manners

March 15, 2007 • 4:01 pm

Mark wrote:

Not sure, but I think Mac OS X has Java built in.

March 15, 2007 • 4:06 pm

Derv wrote:

Command-A the pictures in a folder and double click one of the selected photos. Preview opens them in the draw.

Crappy drawings eh? hmm, very few people would want that so why bundle crap software with the worlds most advanced OS, it would just get slated by those wanting more power.

How about tuxpaint/ I presume your ability to write here means you have the ability to download. It looks like what you’re looking for.

Happy Drawing.

April 17, 2007 • 7:15 pm

Mark wrote:

Yeah I know how to do that with Preview, but I much prefer XP’s way of viewing images, it’s much easier and much more elegant.

April 17, 2007 • 10:50 pm

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