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DESCRIPTION
Phoenix Slides is a fast full-screen slideshow program/image browser, for flipping through folders or disks full of images. Phoenix Slides also does lossless JPEG transformations and can display EXIF data.

Features:

  • fast (pre-cached) full-screen slideshows
  • rotate/zoom in slideshow
  • fast JPEG thumbnails (uses Epeg)
  • lossless JPEG rotation
  • view EXIF data, JPEG comments
  • search subfolders (recursively) for images
  • move files to trash, set image as desktop
  • supports drag and drop, Finder aliases
  • Localizations: Chinese (Traditional), German
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.2.4:
  • fixed crash when reading certain non-standard EXIF headers
  • fixed sporadic hangs (spinning wheel cursor, often affected Intel machines)
  • fixed white line drawing artifacts in thumbnail view
  • some internal changes to work with resolution independence (in anticipation of Leopard)
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Gold Mountain Software
Downloads:31,944
  - Version d/l:25,671
Business:Applications
License:Free
Date:01 May 2007
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****½
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Oct 20 2007
*****

RORO01  THE BEST ONE

Very fast, efficient & useful.  
(Version 1.2.4)

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Aug 2 2007

ONLYONE-JC  Absolutely fantastic image browser. It's fast, and hasn't crashed once (10.4.10)!

My only suggestion is for larger thumbnail support, of sizes up to the actual size of the images being browsed.

It would be great to be able to use the thumbnail size slider to fully preview an image, or series of images, without actually opening it/them in Preview.

Keep up the good work! You've done a great job!

Thanks!  
(Version 1.2.4)

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May 17 2007
****.

JSTRAIT  Can't beat the price. Good well written app. Missing basic transition options though. Just a simple 'cross-fade' would be nice.  
(Version 1.2.4)

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Mar 22 2007
*****

PLANET  Phoenix Slides is amazing fast, the handling by shortcuts is very Mac-like and ergonomic. It offers lossless JPEG rotation, excellent slide shows even with exif-tags - and no annoying, growing cache like iPhoto- in short:

The best image viewer for the Mac around. Dot.  
(Version 1.2.2)

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Dec 15 2006
*****

NADAMAC  I've used them all but Phoenix Slides is probably (one of) the best free image viewers. Thanx a lot!  
(Version 1.2.2)

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Nov 28 2006
****½

SJJ_PUBLIC  Phoenix Slides is fast and fantastic, but it is a tad complex for basic users. I wish it had a toolbar for slideshow navigation and zooming, rather than depending on keyboard commands (of course, keeping the keyboard commands too) and I'd like to see an option for it to automatically jump in the browser to a loaded CD when a CD is loaded, preferably seeking out the first folder on it with photos in it. That would be uber great. Also I'd like see it change the default behavior to be to *not* show the EXIF info Window. For my Mom and Sister, that's information they don't need and that just makes the program seem more complicated. Still, this is a fantastic program as-is and the price is definitely right. Much better than using Preview, especially when viewing pictures on a CD!  
(Version 1.2.2)

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Oct 26 2006

KEVIN MCKENNA  Everyone is saying it, but I'll say it too: this thing is fast. Amazingly fast.

Need a quick look into your iPhoto library? This is the way to go.

The browser's mix of column view and icon view is just perfect.

In less than 20 seconds I found photos I'd forgotten about from months ago.

Free? You're kidding me! Definitely a must-have app for anyone's Mac.  
(Version 1.2.2)

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Sep 7 2006
***..

IRONMAN  UPDATE !!

some weird bug with my Intel Mac: in fullscreen mode, it freezes and there is no way to force-quit. So I am making a 2nd review to lower my previous rating.  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Aug 6 2006
****½

IRONMAN  I was looking for a shareware slideshow app then I reached this page by chance.

It does exactly what I need.

Excellent, for a freeware picture-oriented app. Many paying softs in this genre are not so good.  
(Version 1.2.1)

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Jun 6 2006
*****

CASTLE  Best and fastest image viewer for OSX. My only gripe with it is that you can't do an automated slideshow, and can't set how long each slide should play for. I can get it to do that, anyway :P   
(Version 1.2.1)

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Sep 9 2006

CASTLE  Turns out you can make it show slides with a 1 to 9 second interval by pressing the number keys!  
(Version 1.2.1)

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