Time for another Cool Tools entry, and I have a great one for you if you have any amount of pics and even videos sitting around. It’s a tool called XnView, and it’s available for a bunch of operating systems; Windows, Linux, MacOS to name a few. It’s an awesome picture manager, providing a fast and pleasant interface to thumbnails and even basic image editing tasks. It makes slide shows easy, and can create web pages, and more. It can even thumbnail and play your movies too! There are lots of features in this tool, and it’s free. You gotta love free software, but don’t forget that someone put lots of time and effort into this, and authors love good feedback, compliments and donations that help keep them writing the software we all love.

Now, I am a dad, and I have over 8,000 pics and videos of my kid to take care of and manage, and she’s not even two yet! The point is, XnView makes browsing, viewing, and even some editing a breeze. It has become my default media tool, and has been for years. I highly recommend this, even for the Picassa users out there. Picassa is great, but I don’t think it can hold a candle to XnView unless you are using the Picassa web services to which it joins right up with. So, go check out XnView today!