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ATL - Hawks — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:53:06 -0000

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ann — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:03:27 -0000

Hi Dave! Did you buy the Complete Care coverage for your Asus? They service it in your home. If not, they'll sell it to you after-the-fact. I recommend it. Normally I complain about customer service but Dell, surpisingly, gets my cudos. We purchased Complete Care for our most mobile laptop, knowing it was going to be road weary. In addition to fixing the accidental damage we had, Dell came out to fix a hinge which was repeatedly breaking. Anyhow, when it broke for the 4th time they offered to replace the laptop. I didn't even ask. Since mobile devices are prone to accident for $99 bucks its well worth the fee. And the service happens more or less within 24-48 hours. I suppose it sucks for the hinge to break 4 times, but since I can't count how many laptops I've owned over the years, knowing that one might survive longer than a year or two is good. Dell gets a good grade in keeping me happy over time... I wish politicians would learn good customer care!

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Steven Pemberton — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:04:10 -0000

+1 to Picasa

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Stanley_Krute — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:50:27 -0000

Deep agreement with other posters as to IrfanView being The One for this job. Fast, light, remarkably strong in many areas. It's one of the Stan's Basic Apps that I put on all tuned-up and new computers that the computer systems part of my biz touches.

Latest version is 4.10. Downloadable at Tucows: http://www.tucows.com/previ...

You'll also want to get the Plug-ins. Also downloadable at Tucows: http://www.tucows.com/previ...

It's not Photoshop, as regards editing, but quite adequate for many purposes.

-- stan

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Jean Warner — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:40:31 -0000

do you have the Asus Eee 1000 or an earlier version?

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shiva — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:29:18 -0000

There is nothing that is better than paint.net (in terms of free image editing software). GIMP is way too much for everyday needs.

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martin_english — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:09:28 -0000

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Thejesh GN — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:50:31 -0000

paint.nt is good but it needs .net installation which is heavy for asus.

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AndrewBurton — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:42:19 -0000

I'm not sure what camera Dave's using, but most camera's I've used in recent years (both HP, Kodak, and my lil' Megxon thing) will mount as a drive if you plug the usb cable into the camera and computer. Except in cases when I didn't have a wire.

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ozzmosis — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:49:47 -0000

I'm a big fan of IrfanView. There is also PhotoFiltre at http://photofiltre.free.fr/ .

"I'm always swapping the SDs out."

A USB memory card reader would fix that.

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Scott — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:27:05 -0000

I have to "third" that. Seems like I've been using IrfanView for about 10 years. It does most everything you need. And it's small so that little hard drive won't notice it's there.

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jamtoday — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:10:45 -0000

Second that.

Tiny memory footprint. It makes Photoshop look morbidly obese by comparison.

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Ben Combee — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:48:21 -0000

You can get a nice external DVD writer for under $40. Geeks.com has one at http://www.geeks.com/detail.... I used a LG version on my Asus Eee before I sold it, and it worked great for software installation.

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Andy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:33:37 -0000

I always use Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/) for my lightweight image editing needs when I'm on windows. It can open/convert a variety of formats, along with crop, resize, rotate etc. It's a very handy little program.

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John Serra — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:19:55 -0000

I have to agree that the keyboard is quite adequate. Mine doesn't fall asleep on me, but then I don't use XP. I prefer Ubuntu Linux. Best of all is the size. It is great to be able to walk around with a bag no bigger than a thin loose feaf... I love my eeePC!!!
I realize that we are on different operating systems, but I find that the Gimp is more than enough...

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Aaron — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:14:50 -0000

Irfanview

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Willie Galang — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:56:24 -0000

Hi Dave. I used to scoff at how I can't use the keyboard of the Asus Eee PC for it's too small. But when my wife bought one on sale a few days ago, I realized that a touch typist can get used to it. I told my wife that I want one too, for it's easier to lug it everywhere. :)

I second the IrFanView recommendation of previous posters.

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Chris Moyer — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:41:59 -0000

I'll second that paint.net recomendation. Very nice software.

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Sean Percival — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:41:35 -0000

Dave,

Check out this:

http://www.seanpercival.com...

It is very easy to get a IDE 2 USB converter and hook up any CD ROM. This is how I put Windows on mine before they offered it.

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TomBolini — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:34:49 -0000

Dave, Irfanview is by far the greatest and lightest and most reliable basic image editor for windows!
http://www.irfanview.com/

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jr — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:28:30 -0000

I would wonder if you could get by with the edit tools on flickr to get photo's ready for publication.

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Trevor Manternach — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:27:37 -0000

Give http://www.irfanview.com/ a shot. It's very straightforward.

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-- — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:25:00 -0000

Try picnik (via Flickr) or Photoshop Express

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Don — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:24:50 -0000

Have you tried Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net/)? It's open source. The download is about 1.6MB. I use it regularly for image editing.

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Josh Bancroft — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:24:29 -0000

Glad to hear you're liking the Eee PC. I have the Linux version of the 901, which has a little more drive space (20GB total, instead of 12GB).

For a photo program, I highly recommend Google's Picasa (http://picasa.google.com). It's free, powerful, and should be great for what you're doing. It's kind of like iPhoto for Windows (and there's a LInux version, too). In fact, it's the ONE Windows app I still sometimes miss after switching to Mac (even though I've grown to like iPhoto). Give it shot!