The best and fastest image viewer made is Irfanview!!!

Irfanview is by far the best image viewing tool out there. It can also play many media formats, like mp3, mpg, mpeg, flash content like flv games or the older swf files and many others.

Beyond that Irfanview can build you web pages to display pictures to share. It makes the thumbnails and puts them on an index page and then if makes a page for each image to view full sized. You can use some included filters to touch up the images or you can add filters to do even more.

It is in no way comparable to Photo Shop or Paint Shop Pro, but it's not intended to be. Instead it's a stand alone application that you can run from a flash drive and take with you in your pocket without installing anything on a computer I find that handy when showing pictures to others on the fly or getting images from them without having the proper program required to view them. Like when I go to OfficeMax to get larger sized prints and need to check format requirements.

If you decide to install I recommend you install the addons package. It's tiny and useful

Irfanview [Computer version]
Irfanview [Flash drive version]
Plugins
Sample page

*WARNING:

 "Some NSFW content on page. It is just my animated gif page that I use for posting from."

These are the file formats/extensions supported by the current version of IrfanView: AIF¹, ANI, AU¹, AVI, AWD, B3D, BMP, CAM, CLP, CPT, CRW/CR2, CUR, DAT¹,DCM/ACR, DCX, DDS, DIB, DJVU, DLL/EXE, DXF/DWG/HPGL/CGM/SVG, ECW, EMF,EPS/PS/PDF/AI, EXR, FITS, FLI/FLC², FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, GLCD, HDP/WDP, HDR,ICL, ICO, IFF/LBM, IMG, JLS, JP2, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, Mac PICT², MAG, MED,MID, MNG/JNG, MOV¹², MP3, MPG/MPEG¹, MPO, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG/NSL/OTB/GSM, OGG, PBM, PCX, PDF, PDN, PGM, PIC, PhotoCD,PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, PVR, QTIF², RAS/SUN, RealAudio, RAW, RLE, RMI, SFF,SFW, SGI/RGB, MrSID, SWF/FLV, SND¹, TGA, TIF/TIFF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAL,WAV, WBMP, WMF, WMA, WMV, WBC/WBZ, WEBP, WSQ, XBM, XCF, XPM, (DNG, EEF, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, PEF, SRF, X3F, RW2, NRW). ¹ Microsoft's Media Player program is required for these formats. ² Apple's QuickTime program is required for these formats. Note: Many of these formats are supported through PlugIns, check the table below and read the file "i_plugins.txt" for more infos. PlugIns Download: http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm IrfanView Formats Overview: Extension Format name Open Save AIF Sound file, Audio Interchange Format YES¹ ³ ANI Animated Cursor format for Microsoft Windows YES AU, SND Encoded Audio format used by Sun and NeXT machines YES¹ ³ AVI, WMV, ASF Audio Video Interleaved: Microsoft's video for Windows YES B3D BodyPaint 3D Format YES³ BMP, DIB Windows Bitmap YES YES CAM Casio digital camera file YES³ (JPG version) CLP Windows clipboard format YES CPT CorelDraw Photopaint image YES (CPT version 6) CRW, CR2 Canon RAW image YES³ CUR Cursor Resource file format for Microsoft Windows YES DCM, ACR, IMA Dicom/ACR file format for medical images YES³ DCX Multipage PCX files format YES DDS Direct Draw Surface YES³ DJVU, IW44 DjVu file format YES³ DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG CAD formats YES³ ECW Enhanced Compressed Wavelet YES³ YES³ EMF Enhanced Metafile Format YES YES EPS, PS, PDF, AI PostScript formats YES³ EXR OpenEXR format YES³ FITS Flexible Image Transport System YES³ FLI, FLC Autodesk animation format YES² ³ FPX FlashPix format YES³ FSH EA Sports FSH format YES³ YES³ G3 Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format YES³ GIF Graphics Interchange Format YES YES HDP, WDP Microsoft HD Photo format YES³ HDR High Dynamic Range YES³ ICL, EXE, DLL Icon Library formats YES (icons) ICO Windows Icon YES YES IFF, LBM Interchange File Format YES IMG GEM Raster image YES³ JLS JPEG-LS, Lossless JPEG YES³ JP2, JPC, J2K JPEG 2000 format YES³ YES³ JPG, JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group YES YES JPM JPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpm YES³ YES³ KDC Kodak digital camera format YES³ Mac PICT, QTIF Macintosh PICT format YES² ³ MED MED/OctaMED sound format YES³ MID, RMI Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) YES³ MNG, JNG Multiple Network Graphics YES³ MOV, MP4 QuickTime Movie format YES² ³ MP3 MPEG audio layer 3 format YES³ MPG, MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group format YES¹ ³ MrSID, SID LizardTech's SID Wavelet format YES³ DNG, EFF, NEF, MRW, ORF, RAF, DCR, SRF, ARW PEF, X3F, RW2, NRW Digital camera RAW formats (Adobe, Epson, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Sigma) YES³ NLM/NOL/NGG/OTB/GSM Nokia/LogoManager files YES³ OGG OGG Vorbis audio format YES³ PBM Portable Bitmap file format YES YES PCX PC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation YES YES PCD Kodak Photo CD YES PDN Paint.NET file format YES³ PGM Portable Greymap file format YES YES PIC Softimage PICT YES³ PNG Portable Network Graphics YES YES PPM Portable Pixelmap format YES YES PSD Adobe PhotoShop format YES PSP Paint Shop Pro file format YES³ RAS, SUN Sun Raster format YES³ RA RealAudio sound format YES³ RAW Raw (binary) data YES³ RLE Utah RLE format YES³ SFF Structured Fax File YES³ SFW Seattle Film Works format YES³ SGI, RGB, RGBA Silicon Graphics format YES³ SWF, FLVFLV Macromedia's Flash/Shockwave format YES³ TGA Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA) YES YES TIF, TIFF Tagged Image File Format YES YES TTF True Type Font YES³ TXT Text (ASCII) file YES WAD WAD3 game format YES³ WAL Quake 2 textures YES³ WAV, WMA Windows audio file YES³ WBC/WBZ WebShots formats YES³ WBMP WAP Bitmap format YES³ WEBP Weppy file format YES³ YES³ WMF Windows Metafile format YES WSQ Wavelet Scaler Quantization YES³ XBM X11 Bitmap YES³ XCF GIMP file format YES³ XPM X11 Pixmap YES³ ¹ Microsoft's Active Movie program is required for these formats. ² Apple's QuickTime program is required for these formats. ³ PlugIn is required for these formats, see above for download.

Led Zeppelin Classic Show!!!

Led Zeppelin - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1970 (Full Concert)

"And I thought I missed seein this one forever..."

This is my experience.
it is the real me
no pause, no corrections, no digging into your desires orr looking for your ideas

this is me...

My writing

The way I wanna write

My insides of me

Went diown a trail on a muddy day
met children, one was I
saw what was expected then, heard the notes played out on the box
sister sprawled out, so beautifully
had light of shins acroxt her eyes
lies of lights become othe things
what kind of judge am I?
saw more than that and saw some shit, of whatever it was or wasn't

brother bit a pigeons head off after sister taught him talk
naked dragons, three came to me in 19633 or sometime close
few cherries still danglin from the tree, but who saw? I wonder as
Purple vixen came to preach in a gown of red an gold
bringing her shame alone home from me, seems I had now decided, but that don't rhyme with choice
Killed more than I dare admit, killed my own love, guess I had
Naked florence showed a world to me that only the deans had yer provide
death is time or lack of it
aunts are daughters needed a beating
grandmothers, only once did I see the heart of one that cared
young brothers Johhnnie and molesters and freaks I'll remove that line right now
where does this hate come that comes inside of me
wishes I could and I still might

walking on waters and leaves in seasons
going back into and begun, we forget errors and causes, that's why they still live when one like me would kill them silent.

Run pretty much your whole internet from a flash drive

This is My Portable Apps.coms freeware flash drive browser and programs post.

This is my version of a quick walk-through for setting up a flash drive that you can use for most everything from browsing the Internet more safely than from your installed browser on your computer.

Most of the setup is just a straight single download from http://portableapps.com/, a few are add-ons available through Firefox's add-ons.

I'm having a little trouble explaining these progs in simple terms as a group, so instead I'll just list my favorite ones and explain a little about them separately.

First of course is Firefox for browsing. I also have the full version installed on all of my computers and love it, but it has a few drawbacks. The biggest is the fact that it's a memory fiend. I have seen mine use up to 8 or 900 MB ram and even more some times and that's just with it opened and running in the background. I have an Intel 2.2 gigs dual core with 3 GB memory installed that can barely run with Firefox opened on it sometimes because after you used 85% of your computer just to open a page you barely have anything left to run the rest of the computer with and no, I can't just add more memory because Win XP will only see 3 gigs of ram and anything more added will be ignored.

That piece of crap Pentium is the reason I searched for and found this program in the first place.

With Firefox you will notice that some pages load a little slower, but the trade-off is well worth the extra time in page loads. Next I'll try to explain what I think are a few of the advantages to running Firefox off of a flash drive...

No more Internet browser history stored on your computer. This should also mean that bad scripts (Web trackers, spy-ware, browser attacking scripts) should not effect your computer but instead they would be confined to the settings on the flash drive. To take advantage of this fully I set up the flash drive fully and then made a new folder on my Hard drive called "Flash Drive Settings". I then copied all of the files from the drive and placed them into that folders as copies to be used later as a clean install. Now I can just delete everything on the flash drive whenever I want to and copy the files back in as new copies and it's all back to the original again in about 2 minutes.

Some things though like text files, favorites and browser extension settings you may not want to lose the information from, in those cases you can take a snapshot of your settings and just use that to update with and get back your work or settings from, more on that in a minute.

With Firefox I have a couple ad-dons that I'm not sure I could do without. These are ScrapBook Plus and Ant tool-bar.

Scrapbook Plus is a page capture prog and a bookmarks organizer, With it you can select a portion of a page by highlighting it and save it as an offline page or an image, I use that feature for registration codes for purchased programs and receipts for purchases like items bought on Amazon.
The way you would back up or save settings from ScrapBook is to click View in sidebar and from there select Import/Export settings and select Export all, later you just import that file again and every-thing's set back to the way you had it before. Here is the link for ScrapBook Plus "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook-plus/"

Ant down-loader is a video/audio down-loader that will snag just about any video out there with just a single click and it runs on very little resources. There are many others out there, but most hog up memory and slow you down to next to nothing when yer trying to do something else while you wait for your movie to download.

This is the download page for Ant down-loader http://antcom-video-downloader.en.softonic.com/, you can get it there or even easier, you can just type in ant.com into the plug-ins search in Firefox and grab it that way and that's how I get it usually.

After all of that we get to the programs.

There are tons of games and apps, I did grab Cribbage, but it's not that great. There are a lot of others too like Solitaire and some other java-script games. I don't bother with those much though.

Here are a few that I consider to be "Must Have" programs and a word or two about them

Notepad ++. It's what I'm typing this on right now... LOL
This program runs on next to nothing, but includes everything. It has spell check and many features that you may not realize you need until you try them. One thing it can do is replace a phrase across many pages and do them all in one shot. I use this feature for html editing. It's convenient when making multiple pages that are similar, but with different content, like videos and flash games. I just write out my html with file names like ???.jpg, ???.swf and [New Link].html and change them to fit the actual content intended, like ???.jpg becomes super_mario_thumb.jpg, ???.swf becomes super_mario.swf and the {New Link].html becomes nintendo_home.html to return the user back to the main index section of Mario games.

Another feature of it is you can test out your html in I.E., Firefox, Chrome or Safari to fine tune it or check for browser compatibility

Next is VLC Media Player. VLC is by far the most complete media player out there. It will do so much that I can't get into it all in this post, but a few features are that it will run swf files, almost any media content and it comes with all codecs you need. It will repair damaged or broken video files as long as you have enough of a file for it to read from. It cannot fix files with no content (0.00 MB), nothing can do that.
You can record straight off of it too. This comes in handy if you want to record a film. Just get the Internet web address of the file out of the page properties and copy it, then open it in VLC and click record. It'll record what you want of it in sections or as a whole and from there you can add subtitles or effects or whatever.


Next is Irfanview, that's one of the fastest image viewers. It also supports plug-ins from just about any program out there. FilterFactory offers some nice plug-ins for free and some of those crappy imaging editors have a few nice plugin filters that come with them that you can copy and put into a folder that Irfanview can use to apply effects to your images for free.

A couple more features are it will make web pages for you that offer thumb-nailed views of what you want to share and full screen sub-pages. Here is an example of one I made using gifs I commonly use in pages [My Gif Page]. You can also make screen-savers from your own images and flash files with music added to the background to share as YouTube like video's.

Next is 7Zip free. It will extract zip files along with some other compression file types and you can safe store your data in your own folders to reduce size and you can protect them using password encryption.

Other than that there are a bunch of "just for fun" apps. I kinda like CamStudioPortable for messing around with cam pictures and I'm sure there's more, but I stopped with those because I want to keep this running on an 8 gig drive and I can still import or export to my main programs for doing the rest of whatever else I might want to do.

LOL, here's my pic on Cam Studio...

All in all I think that it's great to have everything all contained on one flash drive that I can stick into my pocket and use safely on any other computer and not have to rely on remembering personal settings or passwords or links or whatever, makes sharing some of the more interesting stuff a lot easier too.

Farnam, Nebraska the way I see it...

I made this collage, actually just remade it for reason of interpretation.
It contains some symbolism , some easy to understand, some not so easy...

The name of this image is Entering Farnam Nebraska and noticing a few things. It is my own creation and I give it freely. This means you can have it for any reason you might want to use it for for free. Aspects of the symbolism I wouldn't ordinarily share. This exception has been made for reasons that you will never know, but I do have my reasons

I'll say just a little, the rest is mine...
The layers in the trees, they mean the depths of reality, the truest reality you will never see, but the layers you might.
The woman, her name is Princess Meme "Me-Me" or queen Meme or whatever. She earned that name by her actions... Holding all hands out and pleading "Me,me,me,me.... with all her desires.
Next is the devil puppet, He's the King, or at least he thinks he is. He's still only a puppet though.
Behind him is the cowboy. He yells "hee-har" and "Yippity-yi-ya", but he's just repeating from a script. He is also in other versions of this and others.

I should make this note right now.

NOTE: I have no respect for cowboys, Nazi soldiers or any other glorified murderer that chose to join up with a cause or agenda that intended on the destruction of a total race of man.
The very first Holocaust happened in America. Woman, children, babies, elderly, anyone and all of them slated to be killed by cowboys for the price of the value of their scalp? HUH?. The first death train ran on American tracks.

To honor a murderer, to celebrate the traditions, to parody yourself in costume to look like a murderer....
Where I come from if it looks like dog shit, tastes like dog shit, feels like dog shit and smells like dog shit then yer supposed to call it dog shit even if it aint really dog shit, but because someone decided to represent it that way.
Next is the sign, that was the first truth I heard out here and I heard it verified many times by many people with the phrase "we take care of our own". 

The next one I call 

"Village board meeting Farnam Nebraska"

This one I will not explain...

 This last one is me, as I feel myself to be here. I am the Spirit of Cow-Punk!!!
"Please be patent, it might load slow"

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