I've been using FastStone Image Viewer for a couple of years. Had been using ACDSee before that, but FastStone is just as good (probably faster, ACDSee got pretty bloated), and is free...
I gave it a go, and there are several shortcomings (in my opinion). It doesn't handle transparency in .PNG files correctly, and it doesn't show the animations in animated .GIF files (just the first frame). Also don't see a way to set a picture as your desktop background, (although I may have missed it) and it did…
@Terry:
I downloaded and took a look that this the other day, and I have to say it is a work in progress at best. You can't get rid of some of the built-in "widgets" that are annoying, as you said you can't use your own images for the background, and in general it is pretty unflexible and not terribly useful. It is a good…
@tonynyc:
Lifehacker is one of the best sites on the interlinks... There is always more that could be done:
I wonder if speech control will ever really become mainstream? (Scotty notwithstanding) The roadblock to speech catching on (and IBM, Microsoft and others have been trying for years) is that it would be unimaginably annoying to have people talking to their computers in a work environment, so those who like to use it…
I have to say the comment functionality in Gawker is really awful, even if we do learn to live with it.
Takes more than one tool to keep things humming:
Windows Vista
@kdyer:
Also my only search tool for my hard drive. I don't have a need to search "inside" word documents or stored emails, so this fits the bill as it is super fast, uses no resources at all (turned off indexing day one of Vista!), and works like a charm.
@JuryDuty: