Phoa for Windows

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• Be careful ! It will remove photos from your hard drive !

  LemonPieMarch 28, 2006

  Pros

  I need a slideshow program which will play my photos automatically with displaying files name(caption) , this will help me comparing some similiar photos then I know exactly which one I would like to keep and which should be remove. At the first time I use this program, it is not too easy because there have too many key & too many setting I need to check the function one by one but finally is done.

  Cons

  But PLEASE BE CAREFULLY ! When you remove the album , make sure it won't remove your own photos from your hard drive. I lost my 44 photos when I remove the album and I did not aware about it. I will clean up my recycle bin daily when window shut down so I have no idea where are they going, to the recycle bin or somewhere else. I have try some data recovery program but can't find them back. I have visited the publisher website & ask for help but no reply from them. <p> <p>So bad I still need to rate it 4 stars because it is an useful program basically .

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• Goodbye THUMBS+ (and your outrageous price)

  MISS CHIEVOUSJanuary 24, 2005

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  PHOA: FREE. PERIOD. 100% SPYWARE FREE 100% BANNER AD FREE 100% SPAM FREE CLEAN, UNCLUTTERED, CUSTOMIZABLE INTERFACE MOUSE-OVER FILE DETAILS, COMPLETELY CONFIGURABLE OPEN SOURCE FORUM & PEER SUPPORTED **BLAZING** FAST —>6,300 images thumbnailed in 5 minutes on a PIII 1000 (that's fast people) **SMALL** ALBUM SIZES —>16.3 MB HOUSED 6,300 thumbnails (many of them big tif files) SMALL & PORTABLE —>Can store your albums on a CD _along with the (3,194 KB) program_ to distribute to friends The problem with Thumbs+ is that by now it does _too_ much. And you're paying for that, trust me. Look, if I want a graphics editor I'll open up Photoshop. PHOA is a very handsome thumbnailer, that (mercifully) does not try to be all things to all people. It has one mission: LET YOU SEE YOUR FILES, including as much data about them as possible (via mouseover). Ditch Thumbs+, which has by now become bloatware in its attempt to be everything to everyone, and get a SIGNIFICANTLY cleaner interface. By the end of the day I will have scrubbed anything Thumbs+ related from my groaning hard drive; relieved my long-suffering SYSTEM RESOURCES of Cerious's giant sucking sound; and become considerably lighter (not to mention more portable). I urge you to visit the author's webpage where no fewer than 20 screenshots have been thoughtfully prepared for you. This is someone who likes graphics, and likes to see the data on his graphics . . . without sucking his resources dry and bankrupting those of us who don't have $90 to buy Thumbs+.

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